Catatumbo Lightning
These lightning are over the Venezuela’s Catatumbo River. This isn’t your average lightning storm that passes quickly, the Catatumbo lighting strikes over one million times per year.
Occurring between 140 to 160 nights per year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour, the lightning stems from a mass of intense storm clouds. The flashes appear in a variety of colors including reds, oranges, blues, purples and more, due to the varying presence of dust particles or water vapor in the atmosphere.
lightning illuminates an ash cloud that extends ten kilometres high in this june 5, 2011 eruption of puyehue volcano, near osorno in southern chile. known as a dirty thunderstorm, this phenomenon is yet to be explained by science, as the source of the lightning (or the specific mechanism by which particles of differing charges are separated in the ash cloud) continues to be debated.
photos by (click pic) claudio santana, ivan alvarado, francisco negroni and carlos gutierrez.
NASA astronaut films lightning from ISS
Astronaut Reid Wiseman posted a Vine from the International Space Station today showing lightning over Houston.
Tornado warnings were issued in the Houston area earlier this afternoon but have since expired.got me having goosebumps
he. he posted a vine. from space.
Sometimes I forget that we’re already living in the scifi future
I really hope we just send a cell phone out with our next probe so we can get vines and instagrams from space like
“lol these methane lakes on titan are crazy and smell bad”
“dude why does venus spin the other way, ha #LongestDayEver”
“ah man, just hit the termination shock of the heliosphere … guess i’m not coming back, love you guys <3 peace”
