This Incredible Video Of A Lightning Storm Looks Amazing

A beautiful lightning storm was captured by scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology. Using a new high-speed camera, the lightning was recorded at 7,000 frames per second, with playback speed adjusted to 700 frames per second - 290 times more than the average for film.

Researcher Ningyu Liu of the Geospace Physics Lab captured the footage on May 20 near the Melbourne campus, and showed a series of vein-like electrical streaks coming down to earth from stormy clouds.

The camera that captured such flash was only recently deployed, and according to Newsweek, it will be used eventually to study the dynamics and energetic of starters, jets, and even gigantic jets - or those with upward electrical discharges produced by thunderstorms in the upper atmosphere.

Mirror UK noted that the storm that was captured showed bright, jagged strikes of light and an astonishing flash that looks like something that came out of a movie - but the footage is definitely 100 percent real. The lightning was shown to have stretched towards the ground before enveloping the sky with an explosive flash before it resets itself and showed more fingers creep into the clouds.

This phenomenon is beautiful, but how much do you actually know about lightning and lightning storms?

For starters, capturing the storm at such a high speed is all you could do to keep up with them. Lightning actually travels through the air at around 270,000 miles per hour - or 75 miles per second.

Lightning is hot - so hot in fact that it is hotter than the surface of the sun, reaching up to temperatures around 30,000 degrees Celsius.

The island of Java is haven for thunderstorm lovers - it is the most thundery place on earth with 220 days of storms every year, however, those with asthma may not love the place so much, considering that thunderstorms can trigger the illness.

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