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Sprites (Explored)
An image that has eluded me for years was finally captured last night. Just West of Leoti, Kansas distant severe thunderstorms rage across the plains. I positioned myself about 80 miles West of the storms in clear skies where I captured this image of rare "sprites"! Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.
Sprites (Explored)
An image that has eluded me for years was finally captured last night. Just West of Leoti, Kansas distant severe thunderstorms rage across the plains. I positioned myself about 80 miles West of the storms in clear skies where I captured this image of rare "sprites"! Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground.