Jul 5, 2021
Crown Flash Phenomena: AMAZING Light In The Clouds
I captured a very RARE occurrence in the sky known as Crown Flash (Crown Cloud Phenomenon). The current hypothesis is that sunlight is reflecting off or refracting through tiny ice crystals above the crown of a cumulonimbus cloud. These ice crystals are aligned by the strong electro-magnetic effects around the cloud, so the effect may appear as a tall streamer or pillar of light. When the electro-magnetic field is disturbed by lightning flashes within the cloud, the ice crystals are re-orientated causing the light pattern to shift very rapidly and appear to 'dance' in a strikingly mechanical fashion. And I briefly capture it.