Does lightning go UP or DOWN? High-speed cameras show the answer!

[@lslast7025]

I'm 64 years old and you always teach me something new! Thanks Dan!

[@tromick]

Again, one more underrated video from you. You have amazing nostalgic content!

[@ratboygenius]

Wow amazing! The high speed footage is so gorgeous - those return strokes are so fast and bright.

[@shinobi-no-bueno]

My favorite lightning fact is that when you see a lightning strike come down and hit the earth what's actually happening is that a current is being formed between the lightning coming down and electricity coming up from the ground or an object and the bright flashing "strike" It's actually these two leads connecting and forming a current

[@jeffreykerchner1611]

Thank you so much! My son was so curious, and now we know how lightning moves. Awesome video.

[@newyorkstatestormchasers]

I just saw upward lightning for the first time on a chase on April 1st of this year. It was an amazing sight.

[@EvelynAnderson-ym5rt]

I saw it one time, probably because fog or clouds acted as a filter, but it was quite a sight, like a ribbon of light going up.

[@alexforget]

I went sailing and lighting is a constant problems in the tropics. It fry the expensive electronics making most boat unusable. What do you think about the wire brushes and smooth domes at the top to reduce the chances of strikes? It seem to me that to even out the charges in the air near the top would reduce the chance of forming an upward moving leader. In the opposite direction is the single pointy spike that concentrate the charge at a point and thus start the leader earlier.

[@ryankunst668]

Great vid! I was interested in how the different charges of lightning work and this is the first video I found that really explained it well. This was more informative than the Nat Geo video I watched a couple minutes ago.

[@dirtypure2023]

Great stuff! Would love more educational content if you're able!

[@roberthosking7524]

I'm a bit confused. Perhaps you can clarify. You said downward leaders are usually negative, correct? But you said as they near the ground a positive leader will arise from a grounded connection to meet with it and create the lightning bolt flash. How is a positive leader rising from a grounded connection? Wouldn't the grounded connection be producing a negative leader?

[@LJayyBeh]

Absolutely amazing!

[@Dave-Hadden]

VERY good video about lightning.

[@FM-yq8yfXYZ]

I wonder if the sum of all currents of upward and downward lightnings is zero?

[@MannyBarron-tz2hd]

Amazing Video! But what's more amazing is the "Word" at the bottom in the last segment of the video.

[@maryannluna739]

Amazing captures. Thank you for sharing ❤️

[@lettybastien4624]

I had a negative leader go up through me, and out my head. My hair stood up, I felt it, and my desk-mate commented. This was indoors in Miami. Shout out to my Cuban buddy Manny.

[@PersonausdemAll]

Indoors? How is this possible?

[@daoudkamili3740]

Its actually capacitance...the charge buildup in cloud and on earths surface gets more than they can store..due to this the charge starts to overflow and sparks start to originate...due to charge overflow medium breakdown happens and hence and charge of clouds and earth simultaneously come towards eachother as the medium breaks

[@pstewart5443]

Quick question about this. By the way fantastic video. Could one hypothesize that the earth and sky are always in a neutral charge and when that ionization shifts to either positive or negative on either side, then lightening occurs to drain off whatever amount of energy there is in order to maintain the neutrality? Do scientists/researchers know what that potential energy threshold is or how it forms? I would guess the positive or negative energy would be due to air movement across the surface of the earth or in the atmosphere as the earth is hit with electromagnetic radiation from the sun, then the higher negative potential occurs requiring an equal positive energy earth-based voltage to balance it out. I wonder if this is the genesis of the thunderstorm in combination with water vapor density/relative humidity. I don't totally understand electricity, but I have always been in awe of it.

[@oliverlawrence8036]

Super awesome footage! Thanks for the information!

[@gnarmarmilla]

Phenomenal footage! Thank you for the explanation. May The Lord Jesus bless your heart and hands evermore, brother.

[@borntoclimb7116]

Great Video. Both ways from lightning looks super

[@CCliffGeiger]

That was totally cool! Loved every second of it!

[@newyorkstatestormchasers]

People with longer hair realizing when it stands up in a storm it's their hair acting as an upward leader source: *I'm in danger*

[@stevethea5250]

THE FOOTAGE IS PHENOMENAL

[@Bestialce2007]

It's unbelievable how something so soothing and smooth like a cloud can produce a ray of death

[@iceresistance]

I once had a storm in September 2022 that featured an oddity: There was a lightning strike that had the thunder crackle it's way down before exploding it's way up!

[@-TerryBogard]

What about lighting that goes from the top of the clouds upwards towards space)upper atmosphere? I wanna see a video about that oddity

[@justingies]

Very cool, man. Excellent. Love it. Shared.

[@transpermeance1535]

On what basis do you assign a positive or negative polarity to the leader? If the earth is a pool of negative charge as claimed based on the potential difference between ground and points say on a pole vertical above the ground, why would the leaders from the ground be anything but negative?

[@the_eternal_traveler]

☝️🤓I love this. Big thank you for teaching and showing. 🙏💚🍀🌳🌍☀️

[@far2ez]

One thing I don't get, which this video doesn't address, is what is a "positive" leader? A negative leader vaguely makes sense to me - electrons being repelled by other electrons into a direction and then spontaneously creating arcing lines as the flow branches across the paths of least resistance. But what is a positive leader? Obviously protons and positrons are not involved, so... is it a void of electrons? I.e., a gap of negative charge due to electrons having voluntarily moved away? But that doesn't really explain why they look the same, as I'd expect them to have more branches or be plainly spherical in that case. Or are we calling it a "positive" leader when it's still the exact same phenomenon, simply occurring when the clouds are positively charged instead of negatively charged?

[@JosiahAnoff]

Nice video Dan

[@ezracox9195]

The fact that even at 1500 fps lightning is still crazy fast is astounding to me.

[@chuckfrumunda1835]

Thank you Daniel

[@CatmanFS]

YES

[@emperornae]

I remember learning about this in 7th grade science I thought it was the coolest thing

[@stevenlester2606]

Now I know! Thank you so much for the Education.

[@zachjones2346]

I have a photo of one of those squiggles. I always wondered about it lol

[@TheToastPeople]

You are the master of lightning

[@gregggoss2210]

Like the scripture verse at the end. 👍

[@cmf3947]

Great video! 👏🌟✊️ thank you

[@divisorplot]

thx ask our news networks weather people here they did not reply. Was wondering about all those photo pics from CN tower if any were ground leaders. Maybe one day they will post some pics from Toronto.

[@lifesajoke6965]

Awesome

[@HighMojo]

Does lighting go up or down? Lightning: Yes.

[@tmc1473]

In the beginning was the word...😂

[@gregmonks]

Lightning doesn't go up or down. You should check out a video titled something like electricity doesn't flow in wires. Lightning doesn't flow either. Most of what's happening can't be seen. When lightning connects, it's stationary. Glows very bright but isn't moving.

[@asifishan1221]

How can electricity not be able to move? They literally power transfers

[@Yandelvillegas]

i love weather

[@melodyfleck9368]

I'm sure someone here knows the answers: Is the earth pos. or neg. charged? There's a real or fake science called "grounding" or "earthing" that attributes good health benefits to being in contact with the earth by going barefoot to make an electrical connection and either get energy from the earth or allow the pent up electrical energy in our bodies to be released to the earth. Does this make sense to trained electricians? Thanks for an amazing video, Dan.

[@sizzla123]

Shocking!!

[@chandanBag512]

What is the speed lightning

[@gooberpeas535]

Wow! That footage was amazing (and informative)! And I love the Bible verse at the end. :)

[@mrhodes3140]

in war of the worlds it went down sending the aliens into the walker.

[@Simple_Jackass]

So, when you're hit by lightning, you actually have a ground leader shooting up out of your head or body to meet the cloud leaders? I actually knew the "meet in the middle" reality of lightening, but never put that together before when it comes to a person getting "hit".... I guess the term "hit" doesn't really apply anymore, not if you're contributing to it yourself through your grounded boots or something.... hmm

[@KDill29]

It's all of the above.

[@las28314]

this is the secrect of the nature I need to hide.

[@azdrifter3968]

I already knew all this, yet, I watched the video anyway.

[@tomato1040]

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[@cameronstokes4059]

COMMON SENSE: LIGHTNING GOES DOWN!!!!! BECAUSE IT HAS TO START FROM THE CLOUD AND TRAVEL DOWN TO EARTH!!!!:))))))

[@1STGeneral]

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. The word by was replaced with the word through making Jesus not God in the flesh. John 10:30 I and my Father are one. Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Revelation 22:19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. My sincere hope is that all will ask Jesus to forgive them of their sins and be saved and grow in God's word being able to see how changing a word takes away the divinity of Jesus