#red sprite lightning

[without-ado]

Red Sprites over Oklahoma l Domenico

[vangoghcore]

by paulmsmithphitography

[thewandererh]

tags from @j-snapdragon ^^^

OH MY GOLLY YES!!! YES YES YES 😭💛💛

LIKE????? I WOULD KILL (maybe not kill but thats the closest thing that expresses my manic appreciation for these thingers) TO HAVE A PLUSHIE. OR SEE ONE. OR HAVE SOMEONE MAKE A SONG ABOUT THEM,,,,, waaughh😭💛💛!!

i even had ideas to make them into characters!! i’ve already got some fellas inspired by clouds i made recently, but haven’t gotten to electrical phenomena yet…waugh this is reminding me so hard. i need a red sprite character. and a dark lightning character!!! did you know that there’s such thing as naturally-occurring lightning that produces enough gamma rays to kill you??? i thought only atomic bombs could do that 😭 how did this happen????

what????????? HUH????? i just had to mention this, i found it yesterday and haven’t done as much digging yet but this is wild….

anyways 10/10 red sprite mention. i love u red sprite jellyfish thing <33

(images from Friends of NASA, FOX weather, Phys.org, and the Royal Meteorological Society)

petition to have official cloud appreciation society merch/a collection of merch and/or plushies from somewhere of every cloud type. im talkin’ from cumulonumbus to lacunosus to asperatus. 👏 make 👏 it 👏 happen!!!!

like as big as this thing. this giant freaking thing <3. i have one. i love it. make one with nacreous clouds somehow plEASe…

blankets or pillows or plushies. i need a designated cloud corner in my room. this is my wish for the future. or an art project. i beg.

i need to PUNCH them. i need to THROW them against the wall. and then hug them gently. i love.

(1st image from thatskyshop, second from the Cloud Appreciation Society website and spotted by SiwStorsve over Norway, 3rd and 4th from roomtery dot com and aesthetic roomcore)

[pentacentric]

SAM WEEK 2025: Day 5 - Sam & Music

A Perfect Day to Chase Tornados | Jim White

red sprite lightning is a real thing, a very eldritch thing. it happens so quickly we can't see it ourselves and have to believe people with very fast cameras instead.

magpie lore is 100% sam, across pretty much all cultures. here we have one, for sorrow.

and many of jim white's songs are winchester songs. this one is feeling like sam right now. this lyric in particular:

But sometimes I feel so goddamned trapped by everything that I know.

And I wish it wasn't so, cause the only thing that anyone should ever know

Is that today's a perfect day to chase tornados.

Yeah, when the wild wind whips around your head you know,

That you have found a perfect day to chase tornados.

[a-dream-seeking-light]

Grand Cosmic Fireworks by Angel An

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The photo, titled Cosmic Fireworks, won the Skyscapes category of the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, hosted by the Royal Observatory Greenwich. This breathtaking image not only showcases the awe-inspiring beauty of sprite discharges but also sparks public interest in extreme weather phenomena and their scientific significance. Credit: Angel An

[briery]

Lightning sprites, or red sprites, often occurring in tandem with lightning. They are short-lived electrical discharges that flash high above thunderstorms in the mesosphere layer of the atmosphere. (Photo by Stephen Hummel, McDonald Observatory, Texas, United States)

[idyllisk]

Red sprite lightning, photos by Nicolas Escurat and Thanasis Papathanasiou

[wayti-blog]

(Image Credit & Copyright: Li Xuanhua)

"Pictured here are gigantic jets shooting up from a thunderstorm last week toward the Himalayan Mountains in China and Bhutan. The composite image captured four long jets that occurred only minutes apart. Gigantic jets, documented only in this century, are a type of lightning discharge that occurs between some thunderstorms and the Earth's ionosphere high above them. They are an unusual type of lightning that is much different from regular cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning. The bottoms of gigantic jets appear similar to a cloud-to-above strike called blue jets, while the tops appear similar to upper-atmosphere red sprites. Although the mechanism and trigger that cause gigantic jets remains a topic of research, it is clear that the jets reduce charge imbalance between different parts of Earth's atmosphere. A good way to look for gigantic jets is to watch a powerful but distant thunderstorm from a clear location."

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[distantobserver0]

NASA artistic renderings of sprite lightning in Jupiter's upper atmosphere. 2020, JPL / Caltech. Sometimes I feel like if we could have an extra-dimensional understanding of our universe, we would know for certain beauty is inherent to its nature.

[scopostims]

thunder manifestation stimboard with supercells, TLE's, and full moons for @octahedral-chaos :•]

[ID: A 3x3 stimboard of 9 GIFs.

GIF 1: Silhouetted tree branches waving gently in front of a full moon.

GIF 2: A supercell storm flashing with lightning.

GIF 3: A full moon above a gently rippling ocean.

GIF 4: Red sprites, flashes of red electricity, in the sky at night.

GIF 5 (center): A thunder manifestation from Genshin Impact.

GIF 6: Red sprites flashing in the sky at night.

GIF 7: Two silhouetted dogs on a hill in front of a full moon.

GIF 8: Lightning flashing down from a supercell storm in front of a tornado.

GIF 9: A timelapse of a moon waxing and waning.

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[without-ado]

Meteors and Red Sprites l Paul M Smith

[pocketramblr]

Who knows what Gerudo culture or fashion would have evolved into by 'Rule's time but it's nice to think about him getting to experience a bit more of it in another universe... Before BLYGanon sours it for him... Also been thinking about that Great Fairy of the desert...

[melanovia]

[nature-godsgardenofeden]

View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Kartik Kota of Lake Wanaka, New Zealand, captured this amazing image on Sunday and wrote: “While trying to image the Milky Way arch over Lake Wanaka, I managed to capture some stunning lightning sprites or red sprites over an incoming thunderstorm. These sprites were right in front of the galactic core.”

[aeontriad]

Sprite Lightning in High Definition

[pyroclastic727]

All other TLEs in case sprites aren't enough for you

If you'd like to see them in action, I recommend this video by storm chaser Pecos Hank.

all i wanna do is eat nectarines and think about aurora borealis st. elmo’s fire gigantic jets ball lightning green flash earthquake lights and will-o-the-wisps