Ever hear about lightening striking up

[peternap]

Most of us know it happens but I didn't think it produced visible light.
Jane and I are spotters for the Weather Service and this afternoon I was trying to get pictures in a nice little thunderstorm.
Later, I took some of the video frame by frame.

[MountainDon]

Interesting shots. Actually I recall reading somewhere that some close high speed photography has shown a faint downward moving trail  at something like 250,000 ft per sec, immediately followed by the brighter upwards strike at some slower speed, maybe 75,000+ fps.    Or I dreamed it.  Maybe we need a kite and a stormy night along with your Canon? 

[glenn kangiser]

I recall a bit of that from my pilot training weather studies.  Fireballs of it sometimes go right down through the middle of a plane.  Interesting stuff.

I once could see it flying off off the tips of my (planes) wings in an electrical storm.  Actually that was known as P-static if I recall correctly.

[JavaMan]

Thought those were foo fighters.... (not the band)

Oh wait, no, that's something else

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

I've not seen that before, but have seen ball lightning, which was pretty bizarre.

[Sassy]

When I was living in Ohio, my brother & I were playing out in the yard & lightening flashed right beside us in a circle - that was kinda startling.  My parents must have told me that meant there was going to be a tornado.