Chris Brady 737
St Elmos fire
This photo was a screen grab from a video taken with an iPhone5. It was taken whilst descending from 35,000ft to 21,000ft between some very active thunderstorms inbound to Split, Croatia. St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object (here the aircraft) in a strong electric field in the atmosphere (the thunderstorm). The plasma was being generated almost every second on both front windscreens and was probably all around the nose of the aircraft. It is not dangerous but does lead to poor ratio reception with ATC because of its effect on the aircrafts antennae.
More of my St Elmos fire footage here youtu.be/Js-UMiriW_g
St Elmos fire
This photo was a screen grab from a video taken with an iPhone5. It was taken whilst descending from 35,000ft to 21,000ft between some very active thunderstorms inbound to Split, Croatia. St. Elmo's fire is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object (here the aircraft) in a strong electric field in the atmosphere (the thunderstorm). The plasma was being generated almost every second on both front windscreens and was probably all around the nose of the aircraft. It is not dangerous but does lead to poor ratio reception with ATC because of its effect on the aircrafts antennae.
More of my St Elmos fire footage here youtu.be/Js-UMiriW_g