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Lightning Splash (Zot on the Water - Amazing Pics)
Spaceweather ^
| June 1, 2009
| Francis Schaefers and Daniel Burger
Posted on 06/01/2009 9:16:36 AM PDT by Squidpup
LIGHTNING SPLASH: On May 26th, photographers Francis Schaefers and Daniel Burger were chasing a thunderstorm along a beach in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, when "the storm turned around and came a little too close for comfort," says Schaefers. "We were able to photograph lightning hitting the water just 40 meters away." Here is the view through their Canon 400D:
Look closely where the lightning meets the water. Tiny bolts appear to be dancing around the impact site.
"Those are called 'upward streamers,'" says lightning expert Richard Blakeslee of the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. "In a typical cloud-to-ground lightning strike, as the leader approaches the ground, the large electric field at the leader tip induces these upward propagating streamers. The first one that connects to the downward propagating leader initiates the bright return stroke that we see with our eye. Upward streamers are often observed on photographs of lightning hitting the ground."
Now we know they can be seen when lightning hits the water, too.
Schaefers and Burger took many pictures that night, mostly from underneath a balcony where they figured the lightning wouldn't reach. This favorite is called The Cruise You Don't Want to Take.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Weather
KEYWORDS: lightning; spaceweather; zotpic
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:16:37 AM PDT
by
Squidpup
To: Squidpup
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:17:06 AM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
To: Squidpup
Wearing brown pants ping for sailors on that ship out there.
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:19:00 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
To: Squidpup
Lightning bolt chasing is a great pasttime....until you catch one......
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:19:19 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(I asked my broker what he's buying today. He replied: "Canned food and ammunition.")
To: Squidpup
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:19:21 AM PDT
by
Sister_T
(The Obama Administration = EPIC FAIL!)
To: RichInOC
*snort* Best visual example of that song I could imagine!
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:20:20 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: Squidpup
Underwater trolls. They can run, but they can’t hide.
To: Squidpup
This Freeper’s got a new wall paper!
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:21:36 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: OB1kNOb
Lightning bolt chasing is a great pasttime....until you catch one...... In Soviet Russia, lightning bolt catches YOU.
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:23:02 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: Squidpup
COOL!!
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:23:32 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Squidpup
"Well, this is not a boat accident! And it wasn't any propeller; and it wasn't any coral reef; and it wasn't Jack the Ripper! It was a shark Zot."
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:24:27 AM PDT
by
IrishPennant
(RLT = Radical Left Terrorism...feel it????)
To: Squidpup
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:26:43 AM PDT
by
Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Squidpup
Lightning really pisses me off.
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:29:02 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(I'm not paying it, so screw you, Obama!)
To: Squidpup
It didn’t seem to light up the background very much.
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:32:15 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: Squidpup
The gods are not pleased.
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:32:48 AM PDT
by
bgill
(The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
To: Squidpup
Now we know why they say to get out of the water when a storm moves in!
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:33:34 AM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Lazamataz
Lightning really pisses me off.As long as you don't piss ON lightning...
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:38:49 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: Squidpup
Amazing, beautiful and scary all at the same time ;o)
Thanks for posting.
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:46:25 AM PDT
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Squidpup
Is that a ship at the left of the pic?
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:49:53 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
To: RichInOC
“Stoke on the water...fire in the sky...”
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posted on
06/01/2009 9:53:46 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Cursed with Second Sight.)
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