STRANGE LIGHTNING STRIKES - Caught on Camera and explained

Strange lightning footage compilation with all sorts of bizarre lightning manifestations including bead lightning, ribbon lightning, streamers, anvil crawlers and more. For licensing contact [e-mail]
Lightning strikes from storm clouds down to the ground. It also strikes up into storms and also out into thin air. Sometimes isolated sparks shoot up out of the ground. Lightning Channels sometimes sail in strong wind and take bizarre, unlikely paths through the sky. This video is about the weird behavior of strange lightning.
UPWARD-MOVING LIGHTNING
Most of us have seen epic lightning bolts branching from the cloud down to the ground, But have you ever seen lightning bolts branching up? Upward-moving lightning or ground-to-cloud lightning often has a strange smooth and fluid channel. This type of lightning was extremely rare prior to the industrial revolution and is said to have only occurred from mountain peaks. Tall, man-made structures help trigger this discharge and increasing skyscrapers and radio antennas are making this brilliant phenomenon more common.
INTRACLOUD LIGHTNING
Most lightning discharges occur only in the clouds never striking the earth. This is called intracloud lightning. But sometimes it leaps out into the naked air, and so this phenomenon is called cloud-to-air lightning
During a lightning storm It's a good idea not to be the tallest thing standing around. But that doesn't mean you're safe if you're the shortest. Lightning seems to have a physics defying mind of it's own and often takes unlikely, erratic paths before striking a random target.
UPWARD STREAMERS
Milliseconds before a typical lightning strike, a stepped leader advances from the cloud to the ground. Before reaching the ground a charged ionic channel called an upward streamer reaches up to meet the leader. When they connect a massive electrostatic discharge flashes. During some strikes, multiple upward streamers spark up and only one makes a connection. In rare photographs you can see these lonely upward streamers failing to make a connection.
BEAD LIGHTNING
After a strike, the main lightning channel begins to cool and sometimes decays into glowing fragments slow enough for the human eye to detect. This string of dots is called bead lightning or chain lightning.
RIBBON LIGHTNING:
Sometimes lightning photographs have parallel successive flashes or strokes off-set from each other. This is called Ribbon Lightning and occurs when strong winds actually blow the flashing channel through the camera frame. Here's some video of lightning actually sailing in strong wind.
LIGHTNING STROKES or FLICKERS
We've all seen lightning flicker, but we generally don't see all the flashes or strokes because they happen too fast for the eye to see. Some lightning strikes are said to flash up to 30 times. When you slow video down you can detect more of the flashes, but this video was shot at 30 frames per second and lightning can hide several stokes inside one of those frames. 480 frames per second will give a more accurate stoke count, but again it is possible to have several strokes inside one of those frames. The best way to get an accurate stroke count is with one still frame. Open your shutter on a dark night and pan your camera back and forth. If lightning strikes during a pan, you'll have recorded and separated the strokes. Notice the primary flash is the only one with branches.
BALL LIGHTNING
Perhaps the strangest manifestation of lightning is Ball Lightning which is said to be a floating luminous ball that can pass through walls. Despite the trillions of selfies shot every second around the globe, There is no solid photographic proof of ball lightning.
In fact it's entire existence is based solely off of reported public sightings. I scoured the internet and was only able to find one plausible photograph of ball lightning.
Music:
"They'll Never Come Between Our Love" by Southern Backtones
"Won't Pray Adagio" by Southern Backtones

[@whoeverwhoever400]

3:25, "for the best result, make sure you take the lens cap off." thank you for the tips. i was wondering why my photos always looked blank black.

[@pulsee1ectro68]

Lol

[@Phantm-yv8qx]

Lmfao

[@gay3006]

Lol

[@laura-vk1wd]

xD

[@southerncountrybadass22]

Gotta make sure that cap is off lol

[@lalo8555]

2:09 I never related so much to lightning before

[@nothisispatrick9606]

Yes

[@pablojoelaban363]

Same

[@aidenwalter1044]

+- lightningawseome!

[@aureusknighstar2195]

Brutal relation

[@quickcodwz1363]

I have

[@RandomPerson-vq9kw]

It's weird, I did not even realize there was different types of lightning. I have only ever seen cloud to ground lighting myself. So it's really cool to learn that mother nature can produce more than one kind!

[@DaveDurkee]

Speaking of Ball lightning that you mention at the end, I have witnessed it once. I was pretty young, but i remember a powerful electrical storm passing through the area, and being a young kid, it was a little scary. It was night and I was supposed to be in bed, but couldn't sleep, so i was peeking out my window, and saw the glowing orb just floating slowly in the air until it made contact with a telephone pole in the corner of the backyard, and released a bright flash, the loudest crack of thunder Ive ever heard. And of course it knocked out the transformer on the pole and killed power to that little part of our neighborhood. Was in Spokane, WA. in the mid 80's.

[@ya.ghostie]

Its 2am and I’m learning about lighting rather than sleeping

[@SIAngel979]

Hungama

[@tylerhatfield2351]

Same here

[@user-of4se4db6i]

Lmao same

[@magneto3596]

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[@lynes3751]

Same

[@fakebently9322]

"for the best results make sure you take your lens cap off."

[@harshanchan8520]

Khalil Fauntleroy ikr😂😂😂😂

[@awesome_gamer_7757]

Khalil Fauntleroy hahahahahaha

[@baristunc8532]

Ruby a lens cap is this front thing in the camera before recording

[@wonderingaround945]

Hey, he did that just for the stupid people.

[@navyntune8158]

@@baristunc8532 oh my bubble blower I'm gonna eat this green gumdrop it's I found it on the ground and I'm sure it's okay

[@ibrown3KC]

I've been a lonely upward streamer failing to make connections all my life!

[@LegendYT1]

When I was like 8, I was looking outside during a storm and saw ball lightning. I haven’t seen it since, and I’ve lived in the really intense stuff in north Texas. So I can say that it is real. Just EXTREMELY rare

[@jeannecamara931]

Lol 😂

[@zeldapinwheel7043]

I think Ive seen it once, it was pretty eerie. I was looking out the window at night, and this blue ball of flickering light passed by. I assumed it was ball lightning, what else could it possibly have been?

[@devil69goddess]

_Quote of the day_ *"For best results, make sure you take your lens cap off." -Pecos Hank*

[@trans_boi4935]

Jenn Wojack 129th liker

[@Harpy-with-Legs]

Jenn Wojack lol

[@cookiez4life602]

😂

[@death2581]

305 like 😊

[@sandramendoza8238]

Jenn Wojack XD

[@darknight8778]

Lightning is beautiful and scary

[@stefaninfinit4259]

dark night 6yx

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[@osgaming3643]

Are you mad dark night when anyone Disrespects ALLAH then he get mad and he send lightning

[@Cqverage_gossip]

Mostly lighting is scary for some peeps but me I’m calm because it strikes our house all the time my bother gets scared but my sis and I keep him calm. Me during a storm 😊 my sister during a storm 🎧😎 my bother during a storm ☹️

[@mosharrofhoque236]

Clash Master I asked my mosque teacher he said on days Allah talks with his angels shaytan tries to listen to the conversation but there are some other angels guarding and when they find or see shaytan they throw lighting at shaytan

[@SomeoneCommenting]

3:29 this is a cool technique to get those. I guess that they'll look better if the motion is done automatically with some motor to have a smooth uniform turn.

[@amyhammack4]

Hank, ball lightning tortured me when I was 3 and 4. My parents live in a very old house and it had a tree scraping the wire that connected the house to the power lines. There were many huge storms in the summer and one night something glowing was rolling around the metal frame on my canopy bed. I was terrified. Then one night I was in the bath and one of those ball things came out of the bathroom light fixture and went into the hallway phone, killing it. My dad saw it too. I think a few more floated around my room and I ran screaming into my parents room. Eventually they cut the tree and it stopped. I had nightmares about the things attacking me for like a year.

[@Clavichordist]

My great grandparents, grandparents, my mom, and aunt witnessed ball lighting "float" as you said right through their house. My great grandmother had a small cottage and all were staying there for the summer. One extremely hot summer day, a thunderstorm came in off the water as they usually did and while all were sitting in the living room, one of those ball things went in the front door and out the back. This wasn't a one person saw it because everyone recounted the same story with absolute consistency right up until they all passed away including my mom who passed in 2018. For years afterwards, my great grandmother would lock the doors, pull the shades, and sit in a corner in the dark and wait out a storm as it passed by.

[@BritishMoron420]

I have nightmares about that a 1 meter sized ball lightning will come into my house and push me into a corner... And then I wake up at 1am and don't get enough sleep.

[@BritishMoron420]

(Side note) One time my school got hit by a lightning strike and all power went out for like 5-10 seconds. There wasn't ball lightning but everyone freaked out except me and the teacher.

[@archiveseeker]

When I was a kid, I was coming home with my Dad, and his friend. We were miles from town, but we saw the lightning hit the ground. We thought it hit our TV antenna, but it hit the neighbor's tree, splitting it in half. Almost 40 years later, I can still see that bolt!

[@tommie42]

Oof the 80s

[@David-wi1ou]

must be weird to see the lightning in black and white

[@voizzrb6944]

@@David-wi1ou lmao

[@bandfromtheband9445]

That is an awesome memory! I wouldn't forget to see something like that, either.

[@David-wi1ou]

@@voizzrb6944 whats funny

[@kingbatcom4960]

I hate to say it but... This video was shocking

[@spoopychannel4835]

King bat Com WHY JUST WHY

[@diphooh]

Wendy The koopling he is just telling a joke. get it? shocking? like you got shocked by lightning

[@sarahgilliland2809]

Lol

[@johnnyjoestar3566]

King bat Com *sarcasm laugh* ha ha ha nice pun

[@manilynsacayanan8926]

Change forward your name

[@dubey_ji]

Watched 10 videos of your back to back Love your content man You keep it interesting with visual and information and I really like your voice You're doing great work sir

[@kingwillthe2nd821]

I believe I saw ball lightning once (Quite a while after I saw this video too). I went for a walk right before this massive storm entered my town, I was constantly looking up at the clouds to see if the lightning was getting closer, which it was, so I kept a reasonable pace (basically jogging). I quickly looked up to check the sky, when I noticed a small glowing ball drop straight out of the clouds, and hit the ground a block away from me. It didn’t make a sound when it hit. At that point I thought ‘screw this!’ And I sprinted home. It’s safe to say I always check the weather radar if I think a storm is around now. (P.s. This was in Aus)

[@NevTheDeranged]

Maybe it was a bird that got hit and fell out of the sky?

[@kingwillthe2nd821]

@@NevTheDeranged well I didn’t see any lightning or birds in the area before the ball appeared. Although the ‘ball’ did fall out of the clouds, so it might be a possibility that something like that occurred in the clouds. (I will also note, I didn’t hear any thunder directly afterwards either).

[@NevTheDeranged]

@@kingwillthe2nd821 no way to know. More fun to assume it was ball lightning, though ;)

[@nickthompson1812]

… aliens

[@kingwillthe2nd821]

@@NevTheDeranged Yeah for sure :)

[@chiragagarwal5499]

0:57, alien's disco party under clouds!

[@commentbandit5002]

'tis MY disco party :3

[@jeffreym4370]

And you still believe in aliens? 😂🤣PLEASE! Stop watching star wars and star streak please for you own good🤝🏻that's if you want to wrought up mentally

[@chiragagarwal5499]

@@jeffreym4370 lmao! I had never watched Star War's single episode. But still, I feel Aliens exist. Though it's just a belief , like many feel people travel Heaven or Hell after Death. That's just a natural belief. Although I didn't connect the situation with this video. It was just a joke actually. 😁

[@TheDeathChamber10]

JEFFREY M have you heard of the area 51 raid idiot

[@fairyknow5598]

the alien's do be hitting those beats 🤩🤩

[@squashhead9180]

3:25 laughed harder than I should have

[@Lucas.268]

SquashHead lol

[@s.a.s778]

🤣 make sure the lens cap off🤣

[@ItshimTheBeyBoy]

You shoulden laugh. lightning is serious Do you want to get hurt by lightning.

[@Lucas.268]

@@ItshimTheBeyBoy its a joke bru

[@arnoldotrejo5178]

Lightning is bad you can get killed from lightning

[@PossumPityParty]

Loved this as I do all your content. It’s the best!

[@tonymobley4156]

I absolutely love this channel. I did a report on tornados when I was in the 7th grade. I’m now 68 so that was almost before electricity was discovered. Haha. Your variety of information, calm demeanor and wicked sense of humor is unmatched by any other doing this type of work. I watched others but often interpersonal strife was too distracting. (TIV) And another was pretty good but I couldn’t take the screaming’Back Up’ when the driver was doing that already. (Dominator) I know I didn’t give enough clues for identifying some of those others but I’m just mean like that. 🤣😇 Please keep up your terrific work. You are very much appreciated!!

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[@michaelnolan7724]

go away 😉😉

[@djinn_tseng]

@@michaelnolan7724how could this comment possibly need to have been edited?

[@blowjays1358]

4:15 Predicting the death of Harambe in 2015. My hero.

[@light6773]

Blowjays he died in 2016

[@Squaredy]

he said it was like a theory IDIOT

[@drewber.t]

He meant that he predicted the death of Harambe in 2015. He never proclaimed Harambe died in 2015.

[@ThomasBob]

Elijah TheKing I like how you don't get what a joke is.

[@Pyron5hadow]

Blowjays Who is Harambe?

[@zojax1125]

0:56 Intracloud lightning is so beautiful😍

[@jebmccandless6122]

In high school my friend and I would chase storms up in Montana. One of the greatest things we ever saw was gigantic symmetrical lightning. Like a Rorschach test kind of thing. It wasn’t just once either but many strikes that had a mirror image in that storm. It was so intense and beautiful, I will never forget it. I’ve tried looking it up multiple times over the years and have never been able to find anything about it. Just a once in a lifetime kind of thing, I guess. Has anyone else experienced this?

[@koushikdas1992]

Yes! I have experienced once.

[@huachan1160]

☀️

[@chrisfree8309]

A lot of people have seen ball lighting, but it's still extremely rare. I knew a retired airlines pilot who said that it formed on the nose of the airplane and slowly move down the inside all the way to the back. It's probably come complicated form of static electricity.

[@lx4302]

Imagine seeing an “extremely rare” never seen before lightning strike without a camera

[@ytakarhaegar6666]

I was like i regret I didn’t record this But when i recorded nothing much happens

[@jiiyjeiiy]

@@ytakarhaegar6666 I saw a VERY close one and it shot on the second I recorded so I didnt see it ;/

[@user-vf7xc1yw9r]

Oof

[@-nova-875]

I would draw one

[@grimesfamily4902]

that would be an oof

[@53n47]

1:49 Imagine getting hit directly by that 0_0

[@munchies08]

You won't be alive anymore

[@2miligrams]

you would have on the tree to get hit but near it would give burns instantly

[@nigelmcgarrell6964]

I almost got hit from lightening when I was 7 or 8 I'm 10

[@TheVibbler]

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[@stubbydinglbutt7682]

You’d turn into a Titan

[@nigeldepledge3790]

As always, Hank, your photography and videography are excellent! The Slo-Mo Guys have a video where they try to image lightning. If I can find it, I'll drop a link.

[@nigeldepledge3790]

Here : m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4KumXyBadWpj9E

[@angieh1950]

Love your channel. Interesting and clever

[@intergalactic2]

Thor stop doing it, we are scared!

[@nosoupforu]

Slime Studio haha Thor fighting loki

[@yumiako1138]

Lol

[@brianthepro523]

MikeTheLegend its a joke

[@brianthepro523]

Cookie Gurl its a joke

[@riri17373]

BrianThePro oof

[@cashewboi8567]

It's confirmed, Bigfoot can conduct lightning

[@louiseforeman6199]

And also that ball lighting can't be seen by taking a selfie!

[@weeepeee6762]

+Adolf Jong un XD welp HE IS A BITCH!!!

[@thefirstsurvivor]

we are fucked

[@xraymeister7160]

True. He has strange telepathic powers that cause balls of electricity.

[@xraymeister7160]

Dammit!

[@nonsensical_nova]

Before I never knew anything about lightning but after watching this video I learned so much from it! I didn’t even know what chain lightning was until I saw this! It’s still good to rewatch this memory of a video

[@markwarren7116]

You always make great videos!

[@spacemanspiff6332]

I saw ball lightning when I was a little kid. It came out of a thunderhead several miles away and floated down diagonally toward where I was at. I was sitting on the steps of the front porch. All I could do is watch it coming. I feel like it woulda hit me if it didn't run into the across the street neighbor's transformer and explode. It was just a real bright "cool white" flickering ball. From beginning to end the whole thing must have lasted about 2 minutes. I hope I never forget that experience. Cause it sure was awesome.

[@trystian8539]

literally millions of people have seen it, yet no one has image or video. So weird

[@random_person2870]

@@trystian8539 I agree

[@soundseeker63]

@@trystian8539 I saw something similar once but tbh I though it was a UFO, it went upwards rather than down.

[@MrTREEHUNTER22]

Holy shit I saw one too, so bizarre

[@18BDM]

Likewise, as a kid also!

[@yishaqdavid2029]

LOL I love the photo of ball lightning.

[@yishaqdavid2029]

master DOGE link?

[@Leah-hj2qv]

It almost hit Harambe (ik its not harambe but then again idk)

[@alexporras2274]

L e a h ℓσℓ

[@lilmarcogaming7149]

Yiṣḥāq David hmmmm it's called the CHIDORI

[@zergiogaming4609]

lilmarco gaming XDDDDDDDDD

[@DifferentSaturner]

Thanks for explaining & adding all info in the description as well. from Great Britain. (Tue 22 June 2021 11h31)

[@iprobablyforgotsomething]

Good pacing of information, pictures and talking speed. You neither went too fast to understand nor too slow. . I have ADD and get bored by too many pauses or slow presentations. I also have some language-processing issues, so usually I have to (sigh and) ask people to slow down, but it's mostly really because they have failed to enunciate properly and so blur all their words into each other. . Thank you for not mumbling. You were clear and easy to understand, so I had no problems with that. Although I appreciate that you put your narration into text in the description box anyway. : ) . And today I learned that there is more than one kind of lightning! Neato. ^__^

[@stxrlight_mocha3944]

My favorite part was the lightning 🌩

[@stxrlight_mocha3944]

BrianNotBryan hm yeah that too 🤔

[@meowpoosaymeow]

Nah i like the part when the man caught with his camera the lighiting

[@KanyeBear]

@@meowpoosaymeow What about the part when there was lighting?

[@alaroyde5758]

Same

[@gachachatabalmemedoodlesandmor]

__B__r__a__i__n__ no

[@vannavanilla]

1:22 That lightning bolt in the middle. The other two bolts must be like, "Bro, do you even know how to lightning?"

[@alexplays6582]

yea ikr!

[@miyukiteishi9051]

Middle lightning bolt: "Fuuuuuutureeeeeee Fuuuuuuuuutureeeeeeeee!" (Squidward)

[@sweetpotato1636]

Middle lightning: Sorry it's my first day

[@sumanlata9384]

Kunal. Sahu

[@sutil5078]

lightning do not speak sorry...

[@high1voltage1rules]

Awesome buddy, love lightning ⚡️ it’s so beautiful to watch! I always look forward to a good storm to watch and record the lightning. Thanks for sharing and be safe 👍🏻 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻THUMBS UP 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@esper86]

Hank I saw ball lightning a few weeks ago and it was like a vision from God. I could not believe my eyes! It definitely exists!! I just wish I had my camera!! ( Also saw some Red Sprites last year, which felt super alien)

[@ExistentialCricis.]

I saw red sprites yesterday (not to be confused with red spirits)

[@esper86]

@@ExistentialCricis. nice! also not to be confused with Red Stripe, the Jamaican Lager Beer 😂🍻

[@youlookridiculous8617]

01:44 ereh turned into a titan

[@questa-op8oj]

THIS IS NOT ANIME WTF

[@questa-op8oj]

Aotis

[@katicahancae5568]

@@questa-op8oj Who cares anime is the best

[@questa-op8oj]

@@katicahancae5568 its different between irl and animes

[@vagodinfir1636]

@egg no shit

[@Noblereach36]

Any video from pecos Hank I'll watch, they're all good. :D

[@adampalomino8293]

Papa John can I have a free pizza

[@Utubin]

Great video. Very informative. Thumbs up.

[@traceyalex1722]

Thank you for describing "chain" lightning.😀 I only ever saw it once, many years ago, and I didn't know the name for it. A strangely slow moving lightning bolt struck the ground less than a mile away and seemed to break up into a necklace of glowing spheres which then faded out quickly but individually. The last few seemed to be drifting with the wind. The accompanying thunderclap rattled the house windows behind me. It was just so beautiful and awesome. (I'm not a storm chaser, but I really enjoy watching them.)

[@helidodge]

Your weather videos should be used for elementary school science classes. You are a great teacher. I think kids would really enjoy and thereby learn well from your content.

[@sonsybaton925]

Heli-dodge I'll second that.

[@localmetalhead3483]

Heli-dodge pfft, he said lightning comes from the sky, it comes from the ground

[@peterbucek2136]

When I was young, a ball lightning went into our house through the window and bounced around in the kitchen. I am not even kidding, it was horrifying!

[@ayayron9452]

+Peter Bucek hadouken!

[@travismcvey]

When I was a kid I'm almost positive that I saw ball lighting. All I can remember is a glowing orb above the apartment across the street from ours.

[@ayayron9452]

Travis McVay could it maybe have been a reflection of some sort?

[@peterbucek2136]

+aaron brooks Shut up sceptic!

[@ayayron9452]

Peter Bucek nice way to voice an opinion.

[@jerrybear6440]

Great video as always....

[@kalinadesseaux8011]

Lightning is so cool thanks for breaking it down and making it cooler

[@TheRealMake-Make]

I saw ball lightning for the first time last year. I was filming a thunderstorm and it looked like the best of it was over, so of course I stopped the camera. No more than five minutes later, my brother and I watched as a bright ball--maybe the size of a beach ball or as small as a baseball--floated nearby. It was hard to tell size and distance because it was so bright. I was sort of paralyzed, awestruck. The thing blew up just like lightning after maybe ten or fifteen seconds existing as an orb. I'm absolutely pissed that I stopped the camera--the ball would have been visible right in its path. Ugh. That wasn't the only missed opportunity. I also missed lightning striking a barn and setting it on fire. Really, I've learned my lesson. Don't stop recording until the sky is blue. Excellent video as always, Hank. My favorite storm chaser/snake handler.

[@PecosHank]

+Make-Make Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it... and even better, record it. Thanks for the story dude!

[@OnlyZunkin]

+Pecos Hank I've scoured a variety of sources and the only credible footage I have ever found of ball lighting is described here. At one point I found the original paper but have since lost the link. This the best I can find currently. medium.com/looking-up/ball-lightning-b594b6ffea37#.bj476lkr6 It was incidentally captured by a lightning research team that was studying normal lightning.

[@travisthornton7614]

Melting Sky thank you for the link.

[@scottmckenna9164]

Good content, humorous Hank!

[@mcrazyweirdom5690]

Hank, I just wanted to let you know that I watch your educational and storm chasing videos to fall asleep.

[@katapet6768]

A lightning orb flew threw my house before in Australia it destroyed the window

[@youcansave15ormoreoncarins75]

ball lightning is more of a property destroyer

[@agentfungus9742]

I had a weird experience with ball lightning in the 1970s. I was at the dining room table at 2AM doing homework. All of a sudden, a intensely bright glowing ball about the size of a soccer ball floated about 6" above the floor in the kitchen. It made a quiet sizzling sound. I stared at it. I had read about ball lightning, but all I could do when I actually saw it was stare with my mind a complete blank. It exploded with a deafening booming pop, like a transformer box exploding. The whole experience was only a second or two. No property damage. My sister, who had been sleeping, ran downstairs thinking something had exploded. When I told her what I had seen, she was pissed that she had missed it. Every other person who describes their experience with ball lightning sounds very similar to mine.

[@sandrajohnson9629]

cool

[@storm3698]

lucky you weren't killed. It has been known to kill. My brother believes he may have seen it travelling through the sky.

[@agentfungus9742]

storm3698 : Dang. Killed by ball lightning. Then I wouldn't have had to do homework anymore.

[@melalien333]

"lonely upward streamers failing to make a connection" -thats me

[@echoedinnocence]

😭😭😭

[@echoedinnocence]

I feel this comment so hard...

[@cat2.096]

Well because yours is so damn tiny No offense. No pun. No drama.

[@tonywecordoba1591]

e UFsfirisoworitioooriueylhgiro ruryeiwlsosierlosoeiiryryrkosiriri

[@carlgustov7728]

Build a bridge and get the f*** over it.

[@jonasbeadle975]

About a month ago, Los Angeles, the city I live in, experienced a rare severe thunderstorm with an epic lightning show. There was constant cloud to ground lightning with two or three anvil crawlers. The storm caught several people off guard with a sudden burst of heavy rain and pea sized hail.

[@winstonsmiths2449]

LOL...good job. That ball lightening photo looks real dude!

[@fortunecookie5459]

A lightning is just a natural phenomen AOT Fan: No it's not

[@river_riv._]

Yes, it's not

[@nano.vfx.on.tiktok]

Today its a thonderstorm i got a foto of one it loked like the sun

[@zebolt2793]

I just searched his up for sinbad but i am a aot fan

[@ganyuily2207]

hello boy

[@rylee7773]

found my people

[@teamtundra2619]

Lightning is beautiful Most ppl are afraid of it but I find it fascinating

[@jacob128gd5]

Team Tundra 2 2 seconds later you get struck

[@skewter2487]

Same

[@relena29]

Big chugis

[@SirKolass]

Have one of those falling close to you and we'll see if you won't be afraid lol

[@djmisunderstood1047]

True my mum said its beautiful to watch when your away from it but don't get to close to the lightning it can hurt you badly!

[@whitewolf6605]

Your channel is pretty cool man.

[@bobprickett2223]

A few years ago I was flying from Houston to Oklahoma City. We had to fly around a large storm system that put on quite a lightning show. A we descended on our approach to the airport I was watching several spectacular lightning strikes around a small town. One large strike produced what looked like a “smoke ring” of lightning that appeared to rise up from the point of the lightning strike. It was brief and looked like an effect I’ve seen in film of Van deGraf (?) generators of a donut shaped discharge. I have never seen anything like it before or since.

[@TheAutomotiveFeed]

THIS IS THE BEST SIDE OF KZbin

[@wonderingaround945]

It's pretty

[@ayanakittyqueen8678]

yeah

[@drallealexanderncapiral6593]

Sain Rajput i

[@theresawohlhaefer-maynard5032]

WOW

[@thatlonelypenguin3586]

Sain Rajput B

[@EdWatts]

Hank, you have to be one of the "coolest" people on youtube. The Patterson film shot was just too funny! If you really are in Pecos, I would like to "do lunch" with you the next time I breeze through there.

[@PecosHank]

Howdy Ed. I earned the nickname "Pecos" because of my affiliation with tornadoes and rattlesnakes. Remember, Pecos Bill lassoed at tornado with a rattlesnake... And second my spending Summers in the Pecos River valley. I do pass through the town from time to time but nobody recognizes me. Happy Trails friend.

[@nicholaswickman8236]

EdWatts y

[@sometimesigetanxiety2443]

KPH

[@betsyburlingame2016]

Pecos Hank lol I have been wondering how u got the name...snake/storm chaser that my friend is something you don't hear of often. love your vids and the way you explain the content.keep doin what u do the way u do

[@roselove4109]

EdWatts wa

[@rlopez18m]

Your pic with ball lightening made me mad LOL 😂

[@stevesouthern247]

Thanks for the info, bob seger

[@bingsuke3072]

2015: Nope 2016: Nah 2017: Nope 2018: Nope 2019: Perfect

[@cobus8100]

manuel garcia It’s in 2017. Not on 2017

[@dylanchristman978]

@@cobus8100 I mean who cares

[@cobus8100]

Dylan Christman I do

[@cobus8100]

manuel garcia Am I a Mr? No, but thanks smartass

[@cobus8100]

Dylan Frost Who?

[@Esso_Films]

U forgot the lighting when someone turns into a titan

[@pardonbeach5425]

lol I was thinking the same

[@PH_navyist76]

probably there is a 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.1 chance

[@Daniel-ri1zs]

@@PH_navyist76 wait u said 00000000000000000000.1 chance.. but theres a one..

[@willuptop9138]

And also the occasional nuclear explosion with the lightning

[@jrlsky]

@@PH_navyist76 ,!,!?!,!

[@xdevi7409]

Don't worry.eren is just training.

[@poley8476]

thanks for showing us these things now we know what to do when this happens :)

[@depressedthoughts]

Me: god give me a sign God: 👌 Me:🤔

[@icte3335]

You: 🤔 Me: 😂 ✋🏻👕👌🏻 👖

[@notyuiitscas7502]

Eat my food 😷

[@sincerelyhenry.9585]

Yui Avery Hondrade no.

[@vminisfuckingreal998]

gottem

[@SC-cb2pg]

depressed thoughts I doubt God gave you that sign being that it represents 666. That is why Hollywood and the music industry makes that all the time. Just sayin. I’m sure you didn’t know though.

[@vendexx7952]

Who else just woke up and got bored and clicked on this Wtf why did I get so many likes on this, but thank you 🥺😊❤️❤️

[@idontposthereanymore6381]

I would die for your pfp

[@goldengod9617]

I woke up at 11:23 and got bored

[@krk4382]

อาโป

[@coffeecake0726]

You read my mind

[@sipmyteapls9509]

Ivy Ninja me

[@cfore6639]

Pecos Frank is always coming in clutch with the subtle social commentary 😂

[@bryndabeeman3370]

Pecos,I have missed you. You are the BEST

[@LGamerr]

I have only seen one "ball lightning" in my life...I was standing in my backyard and it was about the size of the moon from earth...anyway. this ball thing forms in the sky, and then it disappears, and then 3 seconds later it reappears and surges across the sky. add that sighting to your book. (I don't know if that was ball lightning, but what I saw that night fits your description pretty well)

[@Trip_Ts]

yeah me too, but it went out of one cloud into the other.

[@LGamerr]

hmm

[@Aulon]

maybe someone failed to shoot a perfect kamehameha

[@maxonwolf5841]

I saw a ball lightning at epcot because it's was a huge lighting storm nearby

[@aidenhopper-pictureanimati9447]

LGamerr ball lightning lasts for max 2 seconds

[@matchadonut_YT]

Let's just say, "Although lightning may seem 'beautiful to some people, its effects are dangerous and SHOCKING." Pun very much intended

[@MaxMorrisTV]

GEEKYGAMER more like this pun was stolen

[@matchadonut_YT]

@@MaxMorrisTV No, I thought of it, don't make assumptions about people that you don't even know are true. :\

[@kasiakrawczyk2438]

Pun?

[@valnentines515]

GEEKYGAMER αgяєє∂

[@trethespiritual4734]

Moree like cringee

[@larryashmore489]

Well done video!

[@danwaltz315]

This is very interesting video. Thank you.

[@jessbellis9510]

Amazing and informative video! Really great footage - here in Perth we don't tend to get truly massive storms, and practically never get tornadoes. I've never seen upward lighting before.

[@AvaLovesCats222]

Lightning scares me so much I dont know why I decided to watch this

[@demonicalyssa8alyssa_is_swag11]

And zenitsu breathing

[@Chris.Davies]

I have seen ball lightning. It was around 1.5 metres across, and so bright we could not look at it without squinting and covering our eyes. I was driving down the side of a shallow and narrow valley, on the right hand wall of the valley, about half way up the slope. The road was flat and level. We were returning from a day of skiing. It was dusky and starting to get dark at the time. The ball appeared from nowhere roughly in the middle of the valley about 50 metres ahead of the old '72 Landcruiser and maybe 70 metres left and at roughly the same altitude. It was moving away from us slowly but in the same direction, and so I chased it. I estimate it was doing around 70mph up the valley. It held a straight path and altitude from our perspective, and it lasted about 15 seconds, although it felt longer. When it ended, it simply winked out of existence, just like a normal lightning bolt, leaving us four guys with some heavy streaks in our vision. One of the guys thought it was an alien craft/UFO, but I was quick to disabuse him of that notion. It was a pretty freaky experience though, and I'll never forget it. Two Thumbs up - Would experience again! Edit: All four of us discussed our shared experience extensively on the hour-long trip home, and we all agreed that we saw the same thing, as we described it to each other repeatedly. This was in about 1985 or so. Long before cameras became ubiquitous. It looked blue white. Similar in colour to an arc welding plasma but it was steadier in brightness.

[@moiseslugardo8501]

That ball Lightning bit at the end was great.

[@tranquilstar7540]

yall saying thor and putting on SHOCKING puns.. but yall havent heard of someone becoming a titan?

[@Mj-pk4hq]

LMAO that was a good one

[@chihiroogino2851]

KEEEEENNNEEEEYYYYY!!!

[@christito9720]

YOU DAMN TRAITORS!!!!

[@tonywecordoba1591]

sanzu xx eirueurururuopplsuridirurjosieir

[@tonywecordoba1591]

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[@rome2830]

4:32 omg that so big lightning

[@baldthebeanbag1315]

Jay the Gamer on Roblox! Didn’t get me

[@michaelsharpe4250]

That ball lighting photograph made my day! 😂

[@WitchidWitchid]

Very interesting video. Lightning is a strange phenomenon.

[@yourundercoverfbi3081]

0:41 thats like from a badass Sci-Fi movie

[@jpeg.600x2]

blade runner

[@adblocker7035]

Tenth strike

[@tian6124]

Pikachu use thunder strike "Super Effective" Your enemy is paralyzed it can't move

[@fever1]

I’m pretty sure my opponent is *dead*

[@DonVito703]

*nani*

[@aaztha415]

omae wa......

[@przemekgoti5864]

@@aaztha415 Mou shindeiru

[@cubzyt9091]

Przemek Goti Nani

[@Ichneumonxx]

I remember somewhere on TV (it was either Discovery or National Geographic, anyway something rather legit) they were doing an experiment to actually create ball lightning, and they kinda managed to do it - the discharge was little electric balls that rolled around the tray for a fraction of a second. So I think it is possible, it's just so rare that you can't really prepare yourself to photograph it.

[@oldmanjohnson69]

Much respect for that picture of "ball lightning".

[@MASHkicksass]

Your channel is my favorite! Very informative, extremely compassionate towards wildlife. And just amazing 🤩 Oh and that hair!!!!!🤩

[@Mh-vi1gm]

0:16 Thor is here

[@thorodinson6727]

Hahahahah now hammer

[@sinister7651]

Who tf is Thor!

[@theshowstopper979]

Thor is fake

[@cpt.martinwalker6268]

@@sinister7651 You don't know Thor, seriously. Google it

[@rahijamadi4725]

@@theshowstopper979 r/wooooosh

[@LionFamilyFunTime]

I have seen chain lightning before so my family was driving to Colorado Springs and one lightning strike was HUGE but it stayed for a while and it broke up into what you said :) so yea

[@heisenberg69]

Nice! Thanks!

[@deividasradziunas3696]

I died on 4:13. I haven't laughed like that in a long time.

[@kelvisaisawesome]

Deividas Radžiūnas why were you laughing at 4:13?

[@kelvisaisawesome]

Did you mean 3:23?

[@phoenixpog3186]

@@kelvisaisawesome it looks like a shadow of bigfoot

[@donovanroundtree524]

I guess lighting can strike more than twice

[@aintthatbrax]

Bruh it's big foot getting blasted by goku how can you not laugh lmaoooo

[@user-jc2jp7rd9f]

I almost got struck by lightning... *T W I C E*

[@adampalomino8293]

Forca Barçelona! *N O I C E*

[@ablinkwhouploadsblackpinkm2349]

It means *Y O U R D E A D*

[@elizabethane3966]

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[@oweepigshank6668]

ᖙαиιɛƖ ツシ *rip*

[@taramayhan1943]

ᖙαиιɛƖ ツシ same

[@nataliesue2485]

Love what you did there, at the end. 🤣

[@alfiefenton8179]

i actually have seen ball lightning before, i was in the Dominican republic and a massive storm came over us, and i saw a ball of light hit the lake in front of us. i thought i made it up but now hearing that you have mentioned this its confirmed to me that i did see what i thought i saw.

[@vmnclr]

The ground to cloud lightning looks like a time lapse of a tree growing.

[@patrykwlodarz]

or like a timelapse of a lightning tree growing XD

[@elainedickson9447]

@@patrykwlodarz yes that's a better way to put it

[@sierra3579]

So freakin cool! I thought I knew a lot about severe storms. I've learned so much more from this channel.

[@gabrieladee9898]

Beautiful said and video👌👌👌👌👌

[@k.pacificnw02134]

I saw what seemed like ball lightning before I'd ever heard of it. It was when I was in high school and I'm 52 now. It was basketball size, floating and glowing on a gravel road, and it was so disconcerting that I didn't want to look at it. That feeling of almost embarrassment, like averting your eyes if someone has a wardrobe malfunction. It's hard to explain. But I just kinda looks at it askance and kept walking. My feeling was some fear, but mostly 'I don't have time for this right now.'

[@hungryfilms3707]

"You've been... THUNDER STRUCK!!!!"

[@Jonny-xq5cb]

dun dun dun

[@Jonny-xq5cb]

*THUNDERSTRUCK* YEAH YEAH YEAH!

[@tea2331]

Ed*

[@swernagin999yeet7]

AC/DC is the best

[@TheShadowWolf1]

*ROAD DOWN THE HIGHWAY*