Massive Crawler Lightning Flashes in Slow Motion

Описание: These never stop being fun to watch. Two very large negative intracloud flashes from two separate events, the first is from 4/10/25 in Huntsville and the second is from 6/22/24 in Round Lake, IL. Negative leaders crawling below cloud base and positive leaders higher up inside the cloud, visible as flickering inside the cloud. We can see positive leaders initiating from the negative crawlers in the second flash and tapping into additional negative charge above, which further increased the duration of that flash.

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Lightning information provided by Vaisala's National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) through weather.us/lightning. The data is used for purely recreational purposes to roughly estimate stroke intensity and distance, the data presented here may be prone to error on my end and is not an evaluation of the NLDN's performance.

Thanks to Tom A. Warner and other lightning physicists and researchers who have helped me understand lightning processes explained in my videos. Tom has created a great resource for individuals interested in learning how lightning works.
https://ztresearch.blog/education/

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