Lightning Auras

A blog dedicated to the mystery of lightning, electricity, and the force behind life

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Forty seconds of a truly impressive thunderstorm, which passed over Minneapolis earlier this week.

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All Alone In The Night: timelapse from the ISS (x)

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glow in the light

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Volcanic Lightning occurs when lightning is produced in a volcanic plume. The process starts when particles separate, either after a collision or when a larger particle breaks in two. Some difference in the aerodynamics of these particles then causes the positively charged particles to separate from the negatively charged particles. Lightning occurs when this charge separation becomes too great for air to resist the flow of electricity. Volcanic eruptions also release large amounts of water, which can also help these thunderstorms along. (Source)

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the april 2010 volcanic eruptions in eyjafjallajokull, iceland (previously featured). 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.

see also the sakurajima and puyehue eruptions. photos by skarphedinn thrainsson, gunnar gestur geirmundsson, sigurdur hrafn stefnisson, lukas jackson and ragnar th sigurdsson.

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there’s so much beauty in a storm

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