China Ball Lightning

Great balls of lightning.

China ball lightning.

Ball lightning occurs as glowing spheres ranging in size from. Researchers from lanzhou china s northwest normal university inadvertently recorded a ball lightning event while studying a 2012 thunderstorm using video cameras and spectrometers. A video recorded by accident of ball lightning in china is now shedding light on the phenomenon s mysterious origins researchers say. Ball lightning is a sphere of electrical light that can appear during a storm.

Chinese researchers have done the seemingly impossible. Scientists accidentally record ball lightning in nature for first time. Goodness gracious a great ball of lightning seen in china offers the first evidence in nature that the elusive glowing orbs form thanks to vaporised dirt. Observed and recorded an instance of ball lightning completely by.

In january 2014 scientists from northwest normal university in lanzhou china published the results of recordings made in july 2012 of the optical spectrum of what was thought to be natural ball lightning made by chance during the study of ordinary cloud ground lightning on the tibetan plateau. However a lightning bolt was later found to be behind the massive fireball in shenyang city in china after it struck high voltage power lines. Footage shows a loud bang rocking the city of shenyang today before a blaze broke out. At a distance of 900 m 3 000 ft a total of 1 64 seconds of digital video of the ball lig.

A lightning bolt has ignited a massive fireball over a chinese city after it struck high voltage power lines.