7 Incredible lightning types | Amazing Weather

[@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather]

Have you ever seen any of these lightning types? Let us know in the comments. Even better - send us a link to a video if you have one!

[@cellogirl11rw55]

Met Office - Learn About Weather You missed one type- ball lightning. I know that not everyone considers this phenomenon to be lightning, but, I believe it's important to discuss it because it occurs with thunderstorms, and it has been known to cause injury, as well as property damage. I have personally seen this phenomenon. One evening, during a particularly intense thunderstorm, I saw a bright blue ball about the size of a tennis ball form in the air about 50 feet away from my house during a severe thunderstorm with abundant lightning after a close lightning strike. It then proceeded to float towards my house and passed through an open window in my living room, where I was reading a book, stopping about 5 feet in front of my face. The lights started flickering as it buzzed around the room until it disappeared with the next lightning strike. Needless to say, I now close all my windows during thunderstorms.

[@GoldAndDangerous]

We have intracloud lightning right now. All bright red lightnings. Very pretty - Especially with the moon next to it.

[@mariewagner5283]

Hi! I saw a bizarre phenomenon last night & can't find anything like it online. The electrical currents were visibly traveling along all the trees in my neighborhood. It looked like tinsel strands on all the trees. The thunder never followed it & it hadn't started raining yet. There were no lightning strikes & the trees did not burn. (And no, I didnt see Moses outside my window 😜). DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS? It didnt show up on my phone camera even with the lights out although it was obvious with the human eye.

[@kevin_anderson750]

Met Office - Learn About Weather not spectacular but here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZfSp4KBYpKMjc0

[@bassraja1978]

@@mariewagner5283 check this phenomenon called st.elmos fire Occurs on pointed objects like cattle horns, trees, church towers and aeroplanes wings

[@azurehue2248]

A few years ago I was fortunate enough to witness a lightning storm in southern Alabama. An incredible amount of intracloud lightning, so high up the thunder was barely heard, that never seemed to stop. It was surreal; almost alien. Nothing but swirling masses of dark sky illuminated by lightning every second, flickering in and out. No rain. No thunder, as I said. Just lightning and swirling clouds.

[@nadiaruppeliusl5555]

Thank goodness

[@nadiaruppeliusl5555]

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[@Blitzedzz]

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[@HyremStories]

Got on here because I saw 2 cloud to cloud lightning strikes and I remembered they were kinda rare

[@leifcron8054]

Nature is absolutely beautiful! Everything is beautiful made. It's amazing!

[@colemarie9262]

Saw the most gorgeous intracloud/sheet lightning last night. The lightning was partially obscured by dark storm clouds, next to big swaths of grey, not-quite-night sky, so every few seconds the dark mass would suddenly light up in great detail with deep purple and blue tones. It not only illuminated the clouds beautifully, but also put the edges of the storm in this incredibly sharp contrast with the grey sky. It was so cool.

[@commentmonster7435]

Nature is a boss.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Fantastic how amazing nature is.

[@annieslots2941]

Sheet lightning is my favorite. I like how the clouds glow.

[@ryanslack2666]

Best thing I ever saw was purple lightning in Spain. Beautiful and vibrant. And my god the thunder.

[@medb8882]

Same here, I can’t remember which of the canaries, maybe Gran Canaria, as a child myself and my dad saw from our window, lightning connect in the clouds above into a full circle in the sky, almost perfectly surrounding the circle of the hotel buildings from above, where in the centre there were a few pools. I was baffled and asked my dad how it happened and he was just as speechless as I was. Tuscany also has some gorgeous storms, usually later in summer

[@brandondressen6428]

Brilliant and short/sweet to the point which is highly desired but rarely done in KZbin world...Great video thankyou

[@sandequation2653]

I like the music, thanks for making this.

[@cellogirl11rw55]

My favorite type of lightning is the anvil crawler because it looks like an outstretched hand, and the way it crawls across the sky is absolutely facinating.

[@peterrivney552]

One that you could have mentioned is ball lightning it is very rare but still a form of lighting.. that can float slowly and go through windows and walls I heard the same with regular lighting as well can pass through things ...

[@khai_xi]

Number 3 and 5 is so cool!

[@thelightninghunter23]

You forgot positive lightning. They lower positive charge to ground, tend to be more powerful, and commonly occur when "anvil crawlers" contact the ground.

[@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather]

Thanks Kuba, great suggestion. We will certainly be producing more videos around lightning and how it is formed in the future, where we can touch on positive lightning.

[@samuelodonoughoe1091]

And grease...it’s automatic,systematic,hydromatic.....well it’s a grease lightning..😉

[@PeterMackett]

I saw most of them the other night!,loads of cloud to cloud and intra cloud lightning and anvil crawlers.

[@nickranieri4844]

Nice! Thank you

[@andrewholm49]

I saw number 5 the other night on the Gold Coast. It looked absolutely spectacular. Kinda looked like it fizzled out and the end which was cool

[@showcasecity]

Anvil crawlers are the coolest looking for sure. They’re easy to catch on camera too cause they tend to be in the same spot within the storm moving in the same direction along with it. I’ve also noticed they happen within minutes after a negative ground to cloud strike because the charges need to be dispersed in the clouds.

[@kiralynzelaya3036]

the best video i ve ever seen

[@awmgaming9006]

Few months ago I encounter the 3 type lightning that u show in video

[@johnrojas9535]

I like the cloud to cloud strikes

[@Khirillin]

I saw a cloud to cloud strike, Im inpressed by nature.

[@dangyang2683]

I love lightning

[@Joel-yj3ic]

We had a 3 story tree house when I was younger. Huge thunderstorm. A friend legitimately got paranoid and wouldn't shut up about how dangerous it was to be in a tree. Not wanting to hear that, I finally got him to shut up. A bolt instantly hit 30 feet away directly in front of us. It split into 3 forks at eye level. Lightning looks blue from a distance. This was the most brilliant pink I have ever seen! Huge sparks everywhere! The most amazing thing I have ever seen. And then I was the first one to jump out of the tree house. I might have hit the ground before the thunder stopped! Glad I saw it. But I'm good now.

[@Joel-yj3ic]

30 years later I got to see lightning strike the front of an airliner and exit the back going down the interstate. Clear skies except for a storm 15 miles or more away. I wish I had been closer.

[@kimshub8062]

Sheet lightning is so common in me

[@itsjuskae]

This is actually kinda cool

[@kevin_anderson750]

This is so cool

[@ps9906]

I once saw lightning that covered the sky. It looked like cracked glass. It continued for hours. Very scary

[@waynecalvert2148]

I saw one in the UK, in the Yorkshire area, a few years back that brought me here, because I only vaguely remember how it looked and I want to see it again. If I remember correctly the entire sky was dark but with every strike it illuminated the entire sky so you could see the beautiful cloud formation, it was like a woven ripple effect, completely uniform and covered the as much sky as I could see. It must have been intracloud as only in any gaps in the ripples could you see the lightning strikes. Most of the time it just flashed a deep purple.

[@Princess_angel456]

Whoa scary lightning

[@Tracy-z8z]

You could add Red sprites, blue jets, catatumbo and ball lightnings, etc cause they’re very weird and cool

[@paytonsamuels2594]

Intra cloud lightning is the only type of lightning that doesn't hurt people on the surface of the earth, but it can hurt planes

[@safespace4680]

Theres also Transient Luminous events, aka mesospheric lightning. It cant hurt neither surface people or planes, because its high in the mesosphere. It can cause malfunctioning in vehicles (shuttles, satellites, etc.) above thunderstorms, but are harmless aside from that.

[@dbpov5422]

I have a video up of a thunderstorm yesterday, really nice cloud to cloud strike

[@huhnchenmitreis5258]

I find storms relaxing

[@chrisbahnsen7551]

The 30 minute rule for staying inside after the last rumble finally became understood when a bolt from the blue struck under a mile away from me in a sunny sky. It was like a hairline crack in a blue stained glass window.

[@allanegleston4931]

thanks for your information. russian children are taught that lighting has a return charge too also the worlds longest clear air lightning ( mega flash) covered 3 us states at a distance of 400 miles .

[@spurthichadharam9144]

Thank you, I think we can or shall study the kinds of light and observe visible frequencies and relation between small animals and smaller frequencies, large animals and large frequencies..

[@natashaelenamuhammadjazri2312]

im watching this video bit i still confused over what kind of lightning i saw. it didn't produce much sounds. there's some thunder but the sound is super faint and it's pretty much silent. but it looks like either intracloud or cloud to cloud.

[@veryfunnydidlaugh2460]

I remember being so terrifed when i first saw intracloud

[@isabellehogan4171]

It’s thunder and logging really heavy were I am right now and I got caught out in it on a dog walk earlier this evening

[@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order]

I saw an unusual type of lightning in the UK, at the end of August last year. The lightning came out from the top of the large thunder cloud, pointing towards the blue sky above. The bolts were short and didn't seem to connect with anything. I've never seen lightning bolts point upwards before. Which type of lightning would that have been?

[@mohamedeassa]

Look up sprites

[@RichardNguyenLTD]

So beautiful but dangerous!

[@missdolittle]

Soooo, there is no ball-lightning then since you didn't mention it?

[@budgiebirdsalot4410]

2:22 who else saw a face in the thundercloud?

[@danny037]

Yep totally saw it 👌

[@HyremStories]

Same

[@LA-cw6rc]

What month do you think has the most lightening/thunder storms in the UK?

[@wayne-lj4in]

Hmm. Sort of wished.. expected' it was 'closed captions we could turn off, just enjoy the nice weather..

[@walterbatch5296]

Do these types of lightning strike appear in different parts of the world????

[@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather]

Hi Walter - sorry for the slow reply. We put your question to one of our lightning experts and he got back to us with this answer:- "Basically, we can see any of these types of lightning anywhere in the world. However, some are more common than others. Intra-cloud lightning is more common than cloud-to-ground at mid and higher latitudes. Over the tropics, cloud-to-ground lightning and ground-to-cloud lightning become more frequent as occurs as often as intra-cloud lightning. I don’t think I have ever seen an Anvil Crawler in the UK - I believe you are more than likely to see them over continental Europe or the USA."

[@walterbatch5296]

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR QUICK RESPONSE.......

[@walterbatch5296]

Many thanks for interesting an swer to my query.

[@paytonsamuels2594]

+Walter Batch Lightning is globally, it happens all around the world, no matter where you're at on earth lightning happens because storms travel all around the world just like seasons

[@teshanpasindu9971]

Walter Batch good

[@NotTheMaestro]

Who else is trying to find out what type of lightning is in the sky. As I’m typing there is cloud to cloud.

[@sanjaysimon4893]

Pls let us know of electric current from Lighting and Research

[@hobbytoby8887]

how interesting

[@volcanictempest78]

i felt so safe before knowing about ground to cloud lighting

[@ryneagheilim9782]

Which lightning are you? I like the Anvil Crawler, so badass

[@avedic]

Can you even begin to imagine how our far distant hominid ancestors must have perceived this? Fascinating to even ponder that....

[@smg7602]

8: Ball lightning. Also called St Elmo's fire. It is very rare and missed in this video

[@TimHollingworth]

Probably missed it because they don't have any video evidence. My grandmother always used to open the window to let out the ball lightning in case we were hit.

[@mndbz]

0:51 this sound scary🤯

[@pallavi.s.r814]

I had a clip of intracloud lightening

[@syedmajidahmed8292]

SubhaAllah incredible scary thunderstorms here in Chennai, India

[@mrandrossguy9871]

Doesn’t IN Cloud lighting Not make any noise ?

[@robNsteveFilms]

What about red sprites?

[@parkij11]

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[@themagnificent6844]

I have seen many sheet lightning and inter cloud lightning and even the Bolt from the blue

[@paytonsamuels2594]

+ƬнєMαgηιfιcєηт Bolt from the blue lightning is the most creepy & dangerous kind of lightning

[@snattler]

I was standing on my porch a long time ago. There was a storm about 30 miles away. Blue sky where I was. Suddenly there was a crack and lightning hit the TV antenna on the farmhouse across the road from me.

[@Vengyy.]

Where are the positive cloud to ground strikes

[@michealham3208]

You didn’t mention red sprites

[@Handlewriting]

POV you saw a cloud to cloud strike irl

[@danielledewitt1]

Fork lightning does bad things. We were struck by fork lightning once when me and my sister were kids. It burned the walls, smoke everywhere. Due to visual impairment I can’t see or hear where the flashing and bangs are coming from. I don’t care if it’s sheet lightning or what lightning is bad.

[@mgsilg7996]

How about the mysterious ball lightning? I have a ball lightning video.

[@paytonsamuels2594]

+Max Leung If you're talking about that video on your channel with that plane then what part of the video does the ball lightning happen?

[@midnight89637]

The lightning is here oh no ahh😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@carlcampbell8490]

I’m 10 years old and I already know about that

[@owenthompson7070]

What about sprites?

[@selsoselo2214]

seven forms of lightning breathing

[@mightygamer22op]

You forgot ball lightning

[@SammieeeCx]

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[@shawntepitts488]

Yush

[@lucya7223]

If a fire restarts after rain couldn't it be because of lightning

[@DeepMyst_Music]

Ribbon lightning isn't written here ! 🤔🎀🌩️

[@flqw3d40]

its so purple

[@jirehchoo2151]

Type 8: Titan Transformation

[@flipflop4004]

man i always the sheet lightning thing

[@smg7602]

So where was Ball Lightning in this list?

[@smg7602]

@@danielledewitt1 oh dear Dewitt or is it dimwit Try Google

[@sydandnanadochnahl3411]

I seen cloud to cloud. bolts from the blue and sheet lightning

[@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather]

Wow! You are a very lucky lightning spotter to have seen all three.

[@vincecox8376]

Lightning is a life force energy, It flashes it doesn't arc!! big difference, It doesn't have a polarity as most suggest.. it is more like the center of a magnet..not the north or south poles but the real power of a magnet is at it's center. The "B" field. any density of the static field will attract similar energy within it's grasp.. it will assimilate then crash as a lightning bolt "FLASH". We would all be dead without it.. The sound of thunder comes from the compression left in the space it once occupied.

[@danielledewitt1]

Vince Cox You’ve never had you’re house struck by lightning have you?

[@vincecox8376]

@@danielledewitt1 Not my house, but I was in Washington DC and it hit just five feet from me and I checked the ground where it hit it was ICE cold even though several rocks flew out of the ground.

[@danielledewitt1]

Vince Cox Our house was struck by fork lightning when we were kids here in manchester uk.

[@davecrupel2817]

7 quote "incredible" lightning types, yet you dont have 1 single less-than-common type in this video. No Positive lightning? No heat lightning? No Web or flickering web? None of those interesting multi-bolt strikes from wind farms? No traveling lightning? No sprites? No cloud-to-sky? No rapid-strike? (Just replaced your video in 1 comment btw) Just ground-to-cloud at best? Terrible video. Dislike for clickbait and near 3 minutes of anticipation for the actually interesting forms of lightning. Nothing "incredible" about them.

[@ZakM1]

Bolts from the blue and positive strikes are literally the same thing.

[@paytonsamuels2594]

All these years I thought cloud-to-cloud lightning was something like this shown on this video :kzbin.info/www/bejne/sKPWn6yVibCkqqc at 9:18

[@ssebunn]

I have Ombrophobia

[@parkij11]

Alright.

[@pr-jensen]

Pers hammer

[@Dan-eu1dz]

lightning ball. it can manage to fly inside airplane which is perfectly sealed

[@mehedihassan60]

0:39

[@Loup_Solitaire007]

This list is clearly not complete.

[@katzfam1089]

you forgot positive lightning

[@siregg9]

I saw a lightning in clouds it never striked

[@nadiaruppeliusl5555]

😢

[@balasundareshwarana.766]

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