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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Lightning => Topic started by: W3DRM on May 31, 2017, 05:17:16 PM

Title: Lightning captured with Hi-speed Video Camera
Post by: W3DRM on May 31, 2017, 05:17:16 PM

I haven't seen this link posted on the WXFORUM but thought members would be interested in viewing this video. It is taken in Brazil with two high-speed cameras shooting at 70,000 & 40,000 frames per second.

• http://www.livescience.com/59317-lightning-strikes-building-high-speed-footage.html?utm_source=notification (http://www.livescience.com/59317-lightning-strikes-building-high-speed-footage.html?utm_source=notification)

Title: Re: Lightning captured with Hi-speed Video Camera
Post by: ocala on May 31, 2017, 06:06:41 PM

I have seen those before but slowed way down. Still cool to see though.
As for the upward reaching leaders I thought that was common knowledge.
A short Google search showed a couple vids of strikes from the ground up.
Maybe they were just saying that an upward reaching leader was never filmed with a downward reaching one.