WILD Upward Lightning And Spider Lightning (Part 2) -- Slow Motion Lightning 5/21/24

#lightning #slowed #weather
There is one more lightning flash from this event that will get its own video.
National Lightning Detection Network flash data for observed CG (downward) and GC (upward) flashes:
Flash 1 (4:57:24): -16 kA CG (west tower)
Flash 3 (4:49:30): -22 kA CG (south tower)
Flash 4 (4:37:13): -31, -21, -13, -11 kA CG (south tower)
Flash 6 (4:54:08): -23, -16, -16, -12 kA CG, -7, -4 kA IC (south tower)
Flash 7 (4:55:08): -30 kA CG (south tower)
Flash 8 (5:14:32): -53, -22, -20, -15, -12, -7 kA CG 10 mi SSE of my location, not heard.
All times UTC on 22 May 2024. South tower visible in Sony's FOV (angle 1), west, central, and east towers visible in Yi's FOV (angle 2). Central tower was never hit. There are two more tall towers to my north outside of both cameras' FOV. Note that the listed NLDN detections are NOT IN ORDER! This is because data available on weather.us only has seconds-scale temporal resolution. Unlisted flashes had no NLDN detections.
EQUIPMENT I USE:
Nikon D5300 DSLR
Sony CyberShot RX100V
YI 4K Action Camera
Model YAS. 1616.INT
Samsung Galaxy S9 Smartphone
Sony Stereo Digital Voice Recorder
Model ICD-UX570
Video editing done using Shotcut
Lightning information provided by Vaisala's National Lightning Detection Network (NLDN) through weather.us/lightning. Note that I only use this information to roughly estimate stroke intensity and distance, the data may be prone to error on my end and my work
is not, and should not be considered to be, a formal evaluation of the NLDN's performance.
Thanks to Tom A. Warner and other lightning physicists and researchers who have helped me understand lightning processes explained in my videos. Tom has created a great resource for individuals interested in learning how lightning works.
ztresearch.blog/education/

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