STRANGE LIGHTNING STRIKES - Caught on Camera and explained

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  • čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
  • Strange lightning footage compilation with all sorts of bizarre lightning manifestations including bead lightning, ribbon lightning, streamers, anvil crawlers and more. For licensing contact hankschyma@yahoo.com
    Lightning strikes from storm clouds down to the ground. It also strikes up into storms and also out into thin air. Sometimes isolated sparks shoot up out of the ground. Lightning Channels sometimes sail in strong wind and take bizarre, unlikely paths through the sky. This video is about the weird behavior of strange lightning.
    UPWARD-MOVING LIGHTNING
    Most of us have seen epic lightning bolts branching from the cloud down to the ground, But have you ever seen lightning bolts branching up? Upward-moving lightning or ground-to-cloud lightning often has a strange smooth and fluid channel. This type of lightning was extremely rare prior to the industrial revolution and is said to have only occurred from mountain peaks. Tall, man-made structures help trigger this discharge and increasing skyscrapers and radio antennas are making this brilliant phenomenon more common.
    INTRACLOUD LIGHTNING
    Most lightning discharges occur only in the clouds never striking the earth. This is called intracloud lightning. But sometimes it leaps out into the naked air, and so this phenomenon is called cloud-to-air lightning
    During a lightning storm It's a good idea not to be the tallest thing standing around. But that doesn't mean you're safe if you're the shortest. Lightning seems to have a physics defying mind of it's own and often takes unlikely, erratic paths before striking a random target.
    UPWARD STREAMERS
    Milliseconds before a typical lightning strike, a stepped leader advances from the cloud to the ground. Before reaching the ground a charged ionic channel called an upward streamer reaches up to meet the leader. When they connect a massive electrostatic discharge flashes. During some strikes, multiple upward streamers spark up and only one makes a connection. In rare photographs you can see these lonely upward streamers failing to make a connection.
    BEAD LIGHTNING
    After a strike, the main lightning channel begins to cool and sometimes decays into glowing fragments slow enough for the human eye to detect. This string of dots is called bead lightning or chain lightning.
    RIBBON LIGHTNING:
    Sometimes lightning photographs have parallel successive flashes or strokes off-set from each other. This is called Ribbon Lightning and occurs when strong winds actually blow the flashing channel through the camera frame. Here's some video of lightning actually sailing in strong wind.
    LIGHTNING STROKES or FLICKERS
    We've all seen lightning flicker, but we generally don't see all the flashes or strokes because they happen too fast for the eye to see. Some lightning strikes are said to flash up to 30 times. When you slow video down you can detect more of the flashes, but this video was shot at 30 frames per second and lightning can hide several stokes inside one of those frames. 480 frames per second will give a more accurate stoke count, but again it is possible to have several strokes inside one of those frames. The best way to get an accurate stroke count is with one still frame. Open your shutter on a dark night and pan your camera back and forth. If lightning strikes during a pan, you'll have recorded and separated the strokes. Notice the primary flash is the only one with branches.
    BALL LIGHTNING
    Perhaps the strangest manifestation of lightning is Ball Lightning which is said to be a floating luminous ball that can pass through walls. Despite the trillions of selfies shot every second around the globe, There is no solid photographic proof of ball lightning.
    In fact it's entire existence is based solely off of reported public sightings. I scoured the internet and was only able to find one plausible photograph of ball lightning.
    Music:
    "They'll Never Come Between Our Love" by Southern Backtones
    "Won't Pray Adagio" by Southern Backtones
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  • @whoeverwhoever400
    @whoeverwhoever400 Před 4 lety +1150

    3:25, "for the best result, make sure you take the lens cap off."
    thank you for the tips. i was wondering why my photos always looked blank black.

  • @lalo8555
    @lalo8555 Před 3 lety +515

    2:09 I never related so much to lightning before

  • @RandomPerson-vq9kw
    @RandomPerson-vq9kw Před 2 lety +63

    It's weird, I did not even realize there was different types of lightning. I have only ever seen cloud to ground lighting myself. So it's really cool to learn that mother nature can produce more than one kind!

  • @ibrown3KC
    @ibrown3KC Před 3 lety +46

    I've been a lonely upward streamer failing to make connections all my life!

  • @ya.ghostie
    @ya.ghostie Před 4 lety +4016

    Its 2am and I’m learning about lighting rather than sleeping

  • @archiveseeker
    @archiveseeker Před 3 lety +478

    When I was a kid, I was coming home with my Dad, and his friend. We were miles from town, but we saw the lightning hit the ground. We thought it hit our TV antenna, but it hit the neighbor's tree, splitting it in half. Almost 40 years later, I can still see that bolt!

    • @tommie42
      @tommie42 Před 3 lety +12

      Oof the 80s

    • @David-wi1ou
      @David-wi1ou Před 3 lety +76

      must be weird to see the lightning in black and white

    • @voizzrb6944
      @voizzrb6944 Před 3 lety +18

      @@David-wi1ou lmao

    • @bandfromtheband9445
      @bandfromtheband9445 Před 3 lety +6

      That is an awesome memory! I wouldn't forget to see something like that, either.

    • @David-wi1ou
      @David-wi1ou Před 3 lety +4

      @@voizzrb6944 whats funny

  • @DaveDurkee
    @DaveDurkee Před 2 lety +34

    Speaking of Ball lightning that you mention at the end, I have witnessed it once. I was pretty young, but i remember a powerful electrical storm passing through the area, and being a young kid, it was a little scary. It was night and I was supposed to be in bed, but couldn't sleep, so i was peeking out my window, and saw the glowing orb just floating slowly in the air until it made contact with a telephone pole in the corner of the backyard, and released a bright flash, the loudest crack of thunder Ive ever heard. And of course it knocked out the transformer on the pole and killed power to that little part of our neighborhood. Was in Spokane, WA. in the mid 80's.

  • @LegendYT1
    @LegendYT1 Před 3 lety +24

    When I was like 8, I was looking outside during a storm and saw ball lightning. I haven’t seen it since, and I’ve lived in the really intense stuff in north Texas. So I can say that it is real. Just EXTREMELY rare

    • @jeannecamara931
      @jeannecamara931 Před 3 lety

      Lol 😂

    • @zeldapinwheel7043
      @zeldapinwheel7043 Před 2 lety +2

      I think Ive seen it once, it was pretty eerie. I was looking out the window at night, and this blue ball of flickering light passed by. I assumed it was ball lightning, what else could it possibly have been?

  • @devil69goddess
    @devil69goddess Před 6 lety +1333

    _Quote of the day_
    *"For best results, make sure you take your lens cap off." -Pecos Hank*

  • @fakebently9322
    @fakebently9322 Před 7 lety +440

    "for the best results make sure you take your lens cap off."

    • @harshanchan8520
      @harshanchan8520 Před 6 lety +5

      Khalil Fauntleroy ikr😂😂😂😂

    • @awesome_gamer_7757
      @awesome_gamer_7757 Před 6 lety +3

      Khalil Fauntleroy hahahahahaha

    • @baristunc8532
      @baristunc8532 Před 6 lety

      Ruby a lens cap is this front thing in the camera before recording

    • @wonderingaround945
      @wonderingaround945 Před 6 lety +5

      Hey, he did that just for the stupid people.

    • @navyntune8158
      @navyntune8158 Před 5 lety

      @@baristunc8532 oh my bubble blower I'm gonna eat this green gumdrop it's I found it on the ground and I'm sure it's okay

  • @SomeoneCommenting
    @SomeoneCommenting Před 2 lety +24

    3:29 this is a cool technique to get those. I guess that they'll look better if the motion is done automatically with some motor to have a smooth uniform turn.

  • @kingwillthe2nd821
    @kingwillthe2nd821 Před 2 lety +200

    I believe I saw ball lightning once (Quite a while after I saw this video too).
    I went for a walk right before this massive storm entered my town, I was constantly looking up at the clouds to see if the lightning was getting closer, which it was, so I kept a reasonable pace (basically jogging). I quickly looked up to check the sky, when I noticed a small glowing ball drop straight out of the clouds, and hit the ground a block away from me. It didn’t make a sound when it hit.
    At that point I thought ‘screw this!’ And I sprinted home.
    It’s safe to say I always check the weather radar if I think a storm is around now.
    (P.s. This was in Aus)

    • @NevTheDeranged
      @NevTheDeranged Před 2 lety +7

      Maybe it was a bird that got hit and fell out of the sky?

    • @kingwillthe2nd821
      @kingwillthe2nd821 Před 2 lety +5

      @@NevTheDeranged well I didn’t see any lightning or birds in the area before the ball appeared. Although the ‘ball’ did fall out of the clouds, so it might be a possibility that something like that occurred in the clouds. (I will also note, I didn’t hear any thunder directly afterwards either).

    • @NevTheDeranged
      @NevTheDeranged Před 2 lety +3

      @@kingwillthe2nd821 no way to know. More fun to assume it was ball lightning, though ;)

    • @nickthompson1812
      @nickthompson1812 Před 2 lety +11

      … aliens

    • @kingwillthe2nd821
      @kingwillthe2nd821 Před 2 lety +1

      @@NevTheDeranged Yeah for sure :)

  • @lx4302
    @lx4302 Před 3 lety +812

    Imagine seeing an “extremely rare” never seen before lightning strike
    without a camera

    • @ytakarhaegar6666
      @ytakarhaegar6666 Před 2 lety +30

      I was like i regret I didn’t record this
      But when i recorded nothing much happens

    • @jiiyjeiiy
      @jiiyjeiiy Před 2 lety +6

      @@ytakarhaegar6666 I saw a VERY close one and it shot on the second I recorded so I didnt see it ;/

    • @user-vf7xc1yw9r
      @user-vf7xc1yw9r Před 2 lety

      Oof

    • @-nova-875
      @-nova-875 Před 2 lety

      I would draw one

    • @grimesfamily4902
      @grimesfamily4902 Před 2 lety +1

      that would be an oof

  • @darknight8778
    @darknight8778 Před 6 lety +504

    Lightning is beautiful and scary

    • @stefaninfinit4259
      @stefaninfinit4259 Před 6 lety

      dark night 6yx

    • @yanetfortier2076
      @yanetfortier2076 Před 6 lety +2

      NO LO PUEDE CREER😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

    • @osgaming3643
      @osgaming3643 Před 6 lety +1

      Are you mad dark night when anyone Disrespects ALLAH then he get mad and he send lightning

    • @Cqverage_gossip
      @Cqverage_gossip Před 6 lety +1

      Mostly lighting is scary for some peeps but me I’m calm because it strikes our house all the time my bother gets scared but my sis and I keep him calm. Me during a storm 😊 my sister during a storm 🎧😎 my bother during a storm ☹️

    • @mosharrofhoque236
      @mosharrofhoque236 Před 5 lety

      Clash Master I asked my mosque teacher he said on days Allah talks with his angels shaytan tries to listen to the conversation but there are some other angels guarding and when they find or see shaytan they throw lighting at shaytan

  • @amyhammack4
    @amyhammack4 Před rokem +27

    Hank, ball lightning tortured me when I was 3 and 4. My parents live in a very old house and it had a tree scraping the wire that connected the house to the power lines. There were many huge storms in the summer and one night something glowing was rolling around the metal frame on my canopy bed. I was terrified. Then one night I was in the bath and one of those ball things came out of the bathroom light fixture and went into the hallway phone, killing it. My dad saw it too. I think a few more floated around my room and I ran screaming into my parents room. Eventually they cut the tree and it stopped. I had nightmares about the things attacking me for like a year.

    • @Clavichordist
      @Clavichordist Před rokem +6

      My great grandparents, grandparents, my mom, and aunt witnessed ball lighting "float" as you said right through their house. My great grandmother had a small cottage and all were staying there for the summer. One extremely hot summer day, a thunderstorm came in off the water as they usually did and while all were sitting in the living room, one of those ball things went in the front door and out the back.
      This wasn't a one person saw it because everyone recounted the same story with absolute consistency right up until they all passed away including my mom who passed in 2018. For years afterwards, my great grandmother would lock the doors, pull the shades, and sit in a corner in the dark and wait out a storm as it passed by.

    • @BritishMoron420
      @BritishMoron420 Před 9 měsíci

      I have nightmares about that a 1 meter sized ball lightning will come into my house and push me into a corner... And then I wake up at 1am and don't get enough sleep.

    • @BritishMoron420
      @BritishMoron420 Před 9 měsíci

      (Side note) One time my school got hit by a lightning strike and all power went out for like 5-10 seconds. There wasn't ball lightning but everyone freaked out except me and the teacher.

  • @tonymobley4156
    @tonymobley4156 Před 2 lety +50

    I absolutely love this channel. I did a report on tornados when I was in the 7th grade. I’m now 68 so that was almost before electricity was discovered. Haha. Your variety of information, calm demeanor and wicked sense of humor is unmatched by any other doing this type of work. I watched others but often interpersonal strife was too distracting. (TIV) And another was pretty good but I couldn’t take the screaming’Back Up’ when the driver was doing that already. (Dominator) I know I didn’t give enough clues for identifying some of those others but I’m just mean like that. 🤣😇
    Please keep up your terrific work. You are very much appreciated!!

    • @lusiamartins4874
      @lusiamartins4874 Před 2 lety

      DgzfdccgxhscfczcxdNãoPodeNãoPodePodeEvmgglighcfkhsalmsmudgzmddzgmc

    • @michaelnolan7724
      @michaelnolan7724 Před rokem

      go away 😉😉

    • @djinn_tseng
      @djinn_tseng Před 10 měsíci

      @@michaelnolan7724how could this comment possibly need to have been edited?

  • @zojax1125
    @zojax1125 Před 3 lety +49

    0:56 Intracloud lightning is so beautiful😍

  • @kingbatcom4960
    @kingbatcom4960 Před 7 lety +5389

    I hate to say it but...
    This video was shocking

  • @chrisfree8309
    @chrisfree8309 Před 2 lety +21

    A lot of people have seen ball lighting, but it's still extremely rare. I knew a retired airlines pilot who said that it formed on the nose of the airplane and slowly move down the inside all the way to the back. It's probably come complicated form of static electricity.

  • @jebmccandless6122
    @jebmccandless6122 Před 2 lety +13

    In high school my friend and I would chase storms up in Montana. One of the greatest things we ever saw was gigantic symmetrical lightning. Like a Rorschach test kind of thing. It wasn’t just once either but many strikes that had a mirror image in that storm. It was so intense and beautiful, I will never forget it. I’ve tried looking it up multiple times over the years and have never been able to find anything about it. Just a once in a lifetime kind of thing, I guess. Has anyone else experienced this?

  • @squashhead9180
    @squashhead9180 Před 4 lety +296

    3:25 laughed harder than I should have

    • @Lucas.268
      @Lucas.268 Před 3 lety +7

      SquashHead lol

    • @s.a.s778
      @s.a.s778 Před 3 lety +3

      🤣 make sure the lens cap off🤣

    • @ItshimTheBeyBoy
      @ItshimTheBeyBoy Před 3 lety +4

      You shoulden laugh. lightning is serious Do you want to get hurt by lightning.

    • @Lucas.268
      @Lucas.268 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ItshimTheBeyBoy its a joke bru

    • @arnoldotrejo5178
      @arnoldotrejo5178 Před 3 lety +1

      Lightning is bad you can get killed from lightning

  • @spacemanspiff6332
    @spacemanspiff6332 Před 4 lety +168

    I saw ball lightning when I was a little kid. It came out of a thunderhead several miles away and floated down diagonally toward where I was at. I was sitting on the steps of the front porch. All I could do is watch it coming. I feel like it woulda hit me if it didn't run into the across the street neighbor's transformer and explode.
    It was just a real bright "cool white" flickering ball. From beginning to end the whole thing must have lasted about 2 minutes. I hope I never forget that experience. Cause it sure was awesome.

    • @trystian8539
      @trystian8539 Před 4 lety +22

      literally millions of people have seen it, yet no one has image or video. So weird

    • @random_person2870
      @random_person2870 Před 3 lety +7

      @@trystian8539 I agree

    • @soundseeker63
      @soundseeker63 Před 3 lety +7

      @@trystian8539 I saw something similar once but tbh I though it was a UFO, it went upwards rather than down.

    • @MrTREEHUNTER22
      @MrTREEHUNTER22 Před 3 lety +4

      Holy shit I saw one too, so bizarre

    • @18BDM
      @18BDM Před 3 lety +1

      Likewise, as a kid also!

  • @dubey_ji
    @dubey_ji Před 2 lety +1

    Watched 10 videos of your back to back
    Love your content man
    You keep it interesting with visual and information and I really like your voice
    You're doing great work sir

  • @xdevi7409
    @xdevi7409 Před 2 lety +22

    Don't worry.eren is just training.

  • @blowjays1358
    @blowjays1358 Před 7 lety +358

    4:15 Predicting the death of Harambe in 2015. My hero.

    • @light6773
      @light6773 Před 7 lety +3

      Blowjays he died in 2016

    • @Squaredy
      @Squaredy Před 7 lety +1

      he said it was like a theory IDIOT

    • @drewber.t
      @drewber.t Před 7 lety +4

      He meant that he predicted the death of Harambe in 2015. He never proclaimed Harambe died in 2015.

    • @ThomasBob
      @ThomasBob Před 7 lety +4

      Elijah TheKing I like how you don't get what a joke is.

    • @Pyron5hadow
      @Pyron5hadow Před 7 lety

      Blowjays Who is Harambe?

  • @53n47
    @53n47 Před 4 lety +138

    1:49 Imagine getting hit directly by that 0_0

    • @munchies08
      @munchies08 Před 3 lety +17

      You won't be alive anymore

    • @2miligrams
      @2miligrams Před 3 lety +3

      you would have on the tree to get hit but near it would give burns instantly

    • @nigelmcgarrell6964
      @nigelmcgarrell6964 Před 3 lety +4

      I almost got hit from lightening when I was 7 or 8 I'm 10

    • @TheDiddster
      @TheDiddster Před 3 lety

      J8bu8b7y6y6y6y6ub7ub7ubj7bu7b7u7u5rx4djubbathehutjsjsisjejdxhjdhe to vokwfywo3bfvuwo4bx8wmfb

    • @stubbydinglbutt7682
      @stubbydinglbutt7682 Před 3 lety +4

      You’d turn into a Titan

  • @traceyalex1722
    @traceyalex1722 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Thank you for describing "chain" lightning.😀 I only ever saw it once, many years ago, and I didn't know the name for it. A strangely slow moving lightning bolt struck the ground less than a mile away and seemed to break up into a necklace of glowing spheres which then faded out quickly but individually. The last few seemed to be drifting with the wind. The accompanying thunderclap rattled the house windows behind me. It was just so beautiful and awesome. (I'm not a storm chaser, but I really enjoy watching them.)

  • @esper86
    @esper86 Před rokem +12

    Hank I saw ball lightning a few weeks ago and it was like a vision from God. I could not believe my eyes! It definitely exists!! I just wish I had my camera!! ( Also saw some Red Sprites last year, which felt super alien)

    • @im_the_one_who_rebounds
      @im_the_one_who_rebounds Před rokem +1

      I saw red sprites yesterday (not to be confused with red spirits)

    • @esper86
      @esper86 Před rokem +1

      @@im_the_one_who_rebounds nice! also not to be confused with Red Stripe, the Jamaican Lager Beer 😂🍻

  • @chiragagarwal5499
    @chiragagarwal5499 Před 4 lety +361

    0:57, alien's disco party under clouds!

    • @commentbandit5002
      @commentbandit5002 Před 3 lety +7

      'tis MY disco party :3

    • @jeffreym4370
      @jeffreym4370 Před 3 lety +3

      And you still believe in aliens? 😂🤣PLEASE! Stop watching star wars and star streak please for you own good🤝🏻that's if you want to wrought up mentally

    • @chiragagarwal5499
      @chiragagarwal5499 Před 3 lety +7

      @@jeffreym4370 lmao! I had never watched Star War's single episode. But still, I feel Aliens exist. Though it's just a belief , like many feel people travel Heaven or Hell after Death. That's just a natural belief. Although I didn't connect the situation with this video. It was just a joke actually. 😁

    • @TheDeathChamber10
      @TheDeathChamber10 Před 3 lety +3

      JEFFREY M have you heard of the area 51 raid idiot

    • @fairyknow5598
      @fairyknow5598 Před 3 lety +3

      the alien's do be hitting those beats 🤩🤩

  • @cashewboi8567
    @cashewboi8567 Před 8 lety +2574

    It's confirmed, Bigfoot can conduct lightning

  • @PossumPityParty
    @PossumPityParty Před rokem

    Loved this as I do all your content. It’s the best!

  • @nigeldepledge3790
    @nigeldepledge3790 Před 2 lety +1

    As always, Hank, your photography and videography are excellent!
    The Slo-Mo Guys have a video where they try to image lightning. If I can find it, I'll drop a link.

  • @intergalactic2
    @intergalactic2 Před 6 lety +1298

    Thor stop doing it, we are scared!

  • @TheRealMake-Make
    @TheRealMake-Make Před 8 lety +35

    I saw ball lightning for the first time last year. I was filming a thunderstorm and it looked like the best of it was over, so of course I stopped the camera. No more than five minutes later, my brother and I watched as a bright ball--maybe the size of a beach ball or as small as a baseball--floated nearby. It was hard to tell size and distance because it was so bright. I was sort of paralyzed, awestruck. The thing blew up just like lightning after maybe ten or fifteen seconds existing as an orb. I'm absolutely pissed that I stopped the camera--the ball would have been visible right in its path. Ugh. That wasn't the only missed opportunity. I also missed lightning striking a barn and setting it on fire. Really, I've learned my lesson. Don't stop recording until the sky is blue.
    Excellent video as always, Hank. My favorite storm chaser/snake handler.

    • @PecosHank
      @PecosHank  Před 8 lety +5

      +Make-Make Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it... and even better, record it. Thanks for the story dude!

    • @OnlyZunkin
      @OnlyZunkin Před 8 lety +3

      +Pecos Hank
      I've scoured a variety of sources and the only credible footage I have ever found of ball lighting is described here. At one point I found the original paper but have since lost the link. This the best I can find currently.
      medium.com/looking-up/ball-lightning-b594b6ffea37#.bj476lkr6
      It was incidentally captured by a lightning research team that was studying normal lightning.

    • @travisthornton7614
      @travisthornton7614 Před 8 lety

      Melting Sky thank you for the link.

  • @jonasbeadle975
    @jonasbeadle975 Před rokem +1

    About a month ago, Los Angeles, the city I live in, experienced a rare severe thunderstorm with an epic lightning show. There was constant cloud to ground lightning with two or three anvil crawlers. The storm caught several people off guard with a sudden burst of heavy rain and pea sized hail.

  • @iprobablyforgotsomething

    Good pacing of information, pictures and talking speed. You neither went too fast to understand nor too slow.
    .
    I have ADD and get bored by too many pauses or slow presentations. I also have some language-processing issues, so usually I have to (sigh and) ask people to slow down, but it's mostly really because they have failed to enunciate properly and so blur all their words into each other.
    .
    Thank you for not mumbling. You were clear and easy to understand, so I had no problems with that. Although I appreciate that you put your narration into text in the description box anyway. : )
    .
    And today I learned that there is more than one kind of lightning! Neato. ^__^

  • @peterbucek2136
    @peterbucek2136 Před 8 lety +33

    When I was young, a ball lightning went into our house through the window and bounced around in the kitchen. I am not even kidding, it was horrifying!

    • @ayayron9452
      @ayayron9452 Před 8 lety +12

      +Peter Bucek hadouken!

    • @travismcvey
      @travismcvey Před 8 lety +2

      When I was a kid I'm almost positive that I saw ball lighting. All I can remember is a glowing orb above the apartment across the street from ours.

    • @ayayron9452
      @ayayron9452 Před 8 lety

      Travis McVay could it maybe have been a reflection of some sort?

    • @peterbucek2136
      @peterbucek2136 Před 8 lety

      +aaron brooks Shut up sceptic!

    • @ayayron9452
      @ayayron9452 Před 8 lety +1

      Peter Bucek nice way to voice an opinion.

  • @angieh1950
    @angieh1950 Před 2 lety

    Love your channel. Interesting and clever

  • @DifferentSaturner
    @DifferentSaturner Před 2 lety

    Thanks for explaining & adding all info in the description as well.
    from Great Britain.
    (Tue 22 June 2021 11h31)

  • @vendexx7952
    @vendexx7952 Před 5 lety +1176

    Who else just woke up and got bored and clicked on this
    Wtf why did I get so many likes on this, but thank you 🥺😊❤️❤️

  • @yishaqdavid2029
    @yishaqdavid2029 Před 7 lety +555

    LOL I love the photo of ball lightning.

  • @mcrazyweirdom5690
    @mcrazyweirdom5690 Před 2 lety

    Hank, I just wanted to let you know that I watch your educational and storm chasing videos to fall asleep.

  • @Utubin
    @Utubin Před rokem

    Great video.
    Very informative.
    Thumbs up.

  • @helidodge
    @helidodge Před 7 lety +81

    Your weather videos should be used for elementary school science classes. You are a great teacher. I think kids would really enjoy and thereby learn well from your content.

    • @sonsybaton925
      @sonsybaton925 Před 6 lety +2

      Heli-dodge I'll second that.

    • @localmetalhead3483
      @localmetalhead3483 Před 6 lety +1

      Heli-dodge pfft, he said lightning comes from the sky, it comes from the ground

  • @melalien333
    @melalien333 Před 6 lety +348

    "lonely upward streamers failing to make a connection" -thats me

  • @markwarren7116
    @markwarren7116 Před 2 lety

    You always make great videos!

  • @high1voltage1rules
    @high1voltage1rules Před 2 lety +1

    Awesome buddy, love lightning ⚡️ it’s so beautiful to watch! I always look forward to a good storm to watch and record the lightning.
    Thanks for sharing and be safe 👍🏻
    👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻THUMBS UP 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @matchadonut_YT
    @matchadonut_YT Před 5 lety +258

    Let's just say, "Although lightning may seem 'beautiful to some people, its effects are dangerous and SHOCKING."
    Pun very much intended

  • @vannavanilla
    @vannavanilla Před 3 lety +162

    1:22 That lightning bolt in the middle. The other two bolts must be like, "Bro, do you even know how to lightning?"

  • @jerrybear6440
    @jerrybear6440 Před 2 lety +1

    Great video as always....

  • @kalinadesseaux8011
    @kalinadesseaux8011 Před rokem

    Lightning is so cool thanks for breaking it down and making it cooler

  • @fortunecookie5459
    @fortunecookie5459 Před 3 lety +690

    A lightning is just a natural phenomen
    AOT Fan: No it's not

  • @bingsuke3072
    @bingsuke3072 Před 5 lety +600

    2015: Nope
    2016: Nah
    2017: Nope
    2018: Nope
    2019: Perfect

    • @cobus8100
      @cobus8100 Před 5 lety +1

      manuel garcia It’s in 2017. Not on 2017

    • @dylanchristman978
      @dylanchristman978 Před 5 lety +2

      @@cobus8100 I mean who cares

    • @cobus8100
      @cobus8100 Před 5 lety +2

      Dylan Christman I do

    • @cobus8100
      @cobus8100 Před 5 lety +1

      manuel garcia Am I a Mr? No, but thanks smartass

    • @cobus8100
      @cobus8100 Před 5 lety +1

      Dylan Frost Who?

  • @cfore6639
    @cfore6639 Před rokem

    Pecos Frank is always coming in clutch with the subtle social commentary 😂

  • @bobprickett2223
    @bobprickett2223 Před 2 lety +3

    A few years ago I was flying from Houston to Oklahoma City. We had to fly around a large storm system that put on quite a lightning show. A we descended on our approach to the airport I was watching several spectacular lightning strikes around a small town. One large strike produced what looked like a “smoke ring” of lightning that appeared to rise up from the point of the lightning strike. It was brief and looked like an effect I’ve seen in film of Van deGraf (?) generators of a donut shaped discharge. I have never seen anything like it before or since.

  • @TheAutomotiveFeed
    @TheAutomotiveFeed Před 6 lety +1371

    THIS IS THE BEST SIDE OF CZcams

  • @teamtundra2619
    @teamtundra2619 Před 5 lety +37

    Lightning is beautiful
    Most ppl are afraid of it but I find it fascinating

    • @jacob128gd5
      @jacob128gd5 Před 5 lety +7

      Team Tundra 2 2 seconds later you get struck

    • @skewter2487
      @skewter2487 Před 4 lety

      Same

    • @relena29
      @relena29 Před 4 lety

      Big chugis

    • @SirKolass
      @SirKolass Před 4 lety

      Have one of those falling close to you and we'll see if you won't be afraid lol

    • @djmisunderstood1047
      @djmisunderstood1047 Před 4 lety

      True my mum said its beautiful to watch when your away from it but don't get to close to the lightning it can hurt you badly!

  • @Ichneumonxx
    @Ichneumonxx Před 2 lety +2

    I remember somewhere on TV (it was either Discovery or National Geographic, anyway something rather legit) they were doing an experiment to actually create ball lightning, and they kinda managed to do it - the discharge was little electric balls that rolled around the tray for a fraction of a second. So I think it is possible, it's just so rare that you can't really prepare yourself to photograph it.

  • @nonsensical_nova
    @nonsensical_nova Před 10 měsíci +1

    Before I never knew anything about lightning but after watching this video I learned so much from it! I didn’t even know what chain lightning was until I saw this! It’s still good to rewatch this memory of a video

  • @youlookridiculous8617
    @youlookridiculous8617 Před 3 lety +152

    01:44 ereh turned into a titan

  • @stxrlight_mocha3944
    @stxrlight_mocha3944 Před 5 lety +524

    My favorite part was the lightning 🌩

  • @whitewolf6605
    @whitewolf6605 Před 2 lety

    Your channel is pretty cool man.

  • @winstonsmiths2449
    @winstonsmiths2449 Před 3 lety

    LOL...good job. That ball lightening photo looks real dude!

  • @Noblereach36
    @Noblereach36 Před 8 lety +103

    Any video from pecos Hank I'll watch, they're all good. :D

  • @perrrry
    @perrrry Před 8 lety +16

    I pretty much died at the end of this video, haha.

    • @thomasbell2644
      @thomasbell2644 Před 8 lety

      why

    • @perrrry
      @perrrry Před 8 lety +3

      a ball lighting on top of bigfoot. If you didn't understand and see the funny aspect of that I'm not sure I want to start to explain to you either.

    • @thomasbell2644
      @thomasbell2644 Před 8 lety

      Oh ok i see now

  • @michaelsharpe4250
    @michaelsharpe4250 Před měsícem

    That ball lighting photograph made my day! 😂

  • @moiseslugardo8501
    @moiseslugardo8501 Před 2 lety

    That ball Lightning bit at the end was great.

  • @92Jdmsupra
    @92Jdmsupra Před 5 lety +205

    Who's here after watching slo-mo guys?

  • @CloudsGirl7
    @CloudsGirl7 Před 4 lety +71

    Earth: **does little lightning firecrackers**
    Saturn: "Hold my beer."
    But seriously... A very interesting video, and one hell of a collection of footage and stills. (Plus, that trick for catching the different flickers is a stroke of genius.) Don't forget those frightening "positive-charge" bolts, either - especially since they can create "sprites" in the upper-atmosphere. Though fat lot of good it does those of us who are on the ground and under said storms...

  • @Im__A__Fan
    @Im__A__Fan Před 2 lety +2

    I was at Bear Lake (Utah/Idaho) During a major thunderstorm. I was camping and had been hearing the lightning all day, but assumed it was moving away from us. When we got to the lake, I noticed there was a thunderstorm in Montpelier Idaho (13 miles from the lake) but didn't think much of it.
    The wind that day was incredible, the waves were about 5 ft tall at times. Eventually we decided we were done swimming and decided to head back to camp. As were leaving a couple high schoolers came and asked us for help since there car had died; and wanted us to jump it. We agreed and drove over to their car. As my friend is helping them jump it, I noticed it had started to lightly rain, and within mere seconds it was a complete downpour. My friend managed to jump their car (They were driving a sedan, we were driving an SUV), and got back in the car and was dripping wet. The rain was so heavy we feared it was going to break our window (These weren't small drops of rain, rather huge pieces that were painful when they hit you). We started driving away, with the sedan behind us; we were about to leave the beach when I noticed they got stuck in the sand and we had to drive back and help them once-again. They managed to get off the beach and drove away.
    We parked on the side of the road since visibility was near 0. I looked back at the beach and there was massive RV's stuck in the sand, and jet skis that had been abandoned being thrown around in the water. We were parked next to a bunch of powerlines, and I noticed blue plasma running up and down them, and a transformer which we had previously not noticed exploded just behind us. Everyone screamed bloody murder as we sped away. We got back to camp, being traumatized from the storm decided to leave early (We were only going to stay one more day anyway). That storm was the craziest weather I had ever been in, and we still joke about it saying: "Were never going back there again or Zeus is going to punish us!"

  • @bryndabeeman3370
    @bryndabeeman3370 Před 2 lety

    Pecos,I have missed you. You are the BEST

  • @alexangle1820
    @alexangle1820 Před 6 lety +365

    50%no this is fake it has to be!
    20% this is so creepy and scary
    1% (me) THIS IS AMAZING!!

  • @AvaLovesCats222
    @AvaLovesCats222 Před 3 lety +18

    Lightning scares me so much I dont know why I decided to watch this

  • @alfiefenton8179
    @alfiefenton8179 Před 2 lety +1

    i actually have seen ball lightning before, i was in the Dominican republic and a massive storm came over us, and i saw a ball of light hit the lake in front of us. i thought i made it up but now hearing that you have mentioned this its confirmed to me that i did see what i thought i saw.

  • @oldmanjohnson69
    @oldmanjohnson69 Před 2 lety

    Much respect for that picture of "ball lightning".

  • @depressedthoughts
    @depressedthoughts Před 5 lety +146

    Me: god give me a sign
    God: 👌
    Me:🤔

    • @icte3335
      @icte3335 Před 5 lety +8

      You: 🤔
      Me: 😂
      ✋🏻👕👌🏻
      👖

    • @notyuiitscas7502
      @notyuiitscas7502 Před 4 lety +2

      Eat my food 😷

    • @sincerelyhenry.9585
      @sincerelyhenry.9585 Před 4 lety

      Yui Avery Hondrade no.

    • @vminisfuckingreal998
      @vminisfuckingreal998 Před 4 lety

      gottem

    • @SC-cb2pg
      @SC-cb2pg Před 4 lety

      depressed thoughts I doubt God gave you that sign being that it represents 666. That is why Hollywood and the music industry makes that all the time. Just sayin. I’m sure you didn’t know though.

  • @kylesnider1784
    @kylesnider1784 Před 5 lety +155

    99% of comments: Something to do with the word Shocking or a Thanos/Thor reference.
    1% of comments: anything other than the word "Shocking or Thanos/Thor.

  • @davidk7544
    @davidk7544 Před 2 lety

    i visited the house of someone who had a close-up and personal experience with ball lightning. She narrated it's formation,coming into her house off a metal-framed window, "rolling"off the sash and then rolled along the floor for quite a few feet leaving a scorched melted carpet trail. It then jumped towards an electric outlet and disappeared. The burn scars were certainly consistent with her account, and she was visibly shaken by the incident.

  • @poley8476
    @poley8476 Před 2 lety

    thanks for showing us these things now we know what to do when this happens :)

  • @katapet6768
    @katapet6768 Před 7 lety +646

    A lightning orb flew threw my house before in Australia it destroyed the window

    • @youcansave15ormoreoncarins75
      @youcansave15ormoreoncarins75 Před 7 lety +23

      ball lightning is more of a property destroyer

    • @agentfungus9742
      @agentfungus9742 Před 7 lety +84

      I had a weird experience with ball lightning in the 1970s. I was at the dining room table at 2AM doing homework. All of a sudden, a intensely bright glowing ball about the size of a soccer ball floated about 6" above the floor in the kitchen. It made a quiet sizzling sound. I stared at it. I had read about ball lightning, but all I could do when I actually saw it was stare with my mind a complete blank. It exploded with a deafening booming pop, like a transformer box exploding. The whole experience was only a second or two. No property damage. My sister, who had been sleeping, ran downstairs thinking something had exploded. When I told her what I had seen, she was pissed that she had missed it.
      Every other person who describes their experience with ball lightning sounds very similar to mine.

    • @sandrajohnson9629
      @sandrajohnson9629 Před 7 lety +3

      cool

    • @storm3698
      @storm3698 Před 7 lety +34

      lucky you weren't killed. It has been known to kill. My brother believes he may have seen it travelling through the sky.

    • @agentfungus9742
      @agentfungus9742 Před 7 lety +30

      storm3698 : Dang. Killed by ball lightning. Then I wouldn't have had to do homework anymore.

  • @EdWatts
    @EdWatts Před 7 lety +104

    Hank, you have to be one of the "coolest" people on youtube. The Patterson film shot was just too funny! If you really are in Pecos, I would like to "do lunch" with you the next time I breeze through there.

    • @PecosHank
      @PecosHank  Před 7 lety +12

      Howdy Ed. I earned the nickname "Pecos" because of my affiliation with tornadoes and rattlesnakes. Remember, Pecos Bill lassoed at tornado with a rattlesnake... And second my spending Summers in the Pecos River valley. I do pass through the town from time to time but nobody recognizes me. Happy Trails friend.

    • @nicholaswickman8236
      @nicholaswickman8236 Před 7 lety +1

      EdWatts y

    • @sometimesigetanxiety2443
      @sometimesigetanxiety2443 Před 7 lety +3

      KPH

    • @betsyburlingame2016
      @betsyburlingame2016 Před 7 lety +6

      Pecos Hank lol I have been wondering how u got the name...snake/storm chaser that my friend is something you don't hear of often. love your vids and the way you explain the content.keep doin what u do the way u do

    • @roselove4109
      @roselove4109 Před 6 lety +1

      EdWatts wa

  • @scottmckenna9164
    @scottmckenna9164 Před 2 lety

    Good content, humorous Hank!

  • @stevesouthern247
    @stevesouthern247 Před 3 lety +1

    Thanks for the info, bob seger

  • @LGamerr
    @LGamerr Před 8 lety +81

    I have only seen one "ball lightning" in my life...I was standing in my backyard and it was about the size of the moon from earth...anyway. this ball thing forms in the sky, and then it disappears, and then 3 seconds later it reappears and surges across the sky. add that sighting to your book. (I don't know if that was ball lightning, but what I saw that night fits your description pretty well)

    • @Trip_Ts
      @Trip_Ts Před 8 lety

      yeah me too, but it went out of one cloud into the other.

    • @LGamerr
      @LGamerr Před 8 lety

      hmm

    • @Aulon
      @Aulon Před 7 lety +1

      maybe someone failed to shoot a perfect kamehameha

    • @maxonwolf5841
      @maxonwolf5841 Před 7 lety

      I saw a ball lightning at epcot because it's was a huge lighting storm nearby

    • @aidenhopper-pictureanimati9447
      @aidenhopper-pictureanimati9447 Před 7 lety

      LGamerr ball lightning lasts for max 2 seconds

  • @tranquilstar7540
    @tranquilstar7540 Před 5 lety +216

    yall saying thor and putting on SHOCKING puns..
    but yall havent heard of someone becoming a titan?

  • @simplygreymanplaysroadtoo2740

    Idk why I just love watching this before bed lol I think it’s relaxing.

  • @bethnetic6157
    @bethnetic6157 Před 7 lety +329

    To me lightning is not even scary. I think it's pretty cool and epic

  • @tian6124
    @tian6124 Před 5 lety +78

    Pikachu use thunder strike
    "Super Effective"
    Your enemy is paralyzed it can't move

  • @heisenberg69
    @heisenberg69 Před 2 lety

    Nice! Thanks!

  • @larryashmore489
    @larryashmore489 Před 2 lety

    Well done video!

  • @cmarshall324
    @cmarshall324 Před 4 lety +56

    1:13
    Hank: During a lightning storm you don't wanna be the tallest thing standing around.
    Me: MAH SHORT ASS SELF IS SAFE--
    Hank: But that doesn't mean your safe if your the shortest
    Me: *FUUUUUUUU--*

    • @plls2880
      @plls2880 Před 4 lety +4

      Me at that exact moment.

    • @chado3000
      @chado3000 Před 4 lety +4

      At least you won't bump your head on shit trying to get away..

    • @cmarshall324
      @cmarshall324 Před 4 lety +2

      @@chado3000 lol that's true. All I'm gonna do is fall 🤣

    • @fenway4277
      @fenway4277 Před 2 lety

      🤣

  • @user-jc2jp7rd9f
    @user-jc2jp7rd9f Před 6 lety +85

    I almost got struck by lightning...
    *T W I C E*

  • @danwaltz315
    @danwaltz315 Před 2 lety

    This is very interesting video. Thank you.

  • @WitchidWitchid
    @WitchidWitchid Před rokem

    Very interesting video. Lightning is a strange phenomenon.

  • @sophietao4905
    @sophietao4905 Před 5 lety +18

    lightning may be dangerous, but it will never not be beautiful

  • @Esso_Films
    @Esso_Films Před 3 lety +232

    U forgot the lighting when someone turns into a titan

    • @pardonbeach5425
      @pardonbeach5425 Před 3 lety +6

      lol I was thinking the same

    • @PH_navyist76
      @PH_navyist76 Před 3 lety +4

      probably there is a 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.1 chance

    • @Daniel-ri1zs
      @Daniel-ri1zs Před 3 lety +6

      @@PH_navyist76 wait u said 00000000000000000000.1 chance.. but theres a one..

    • @willuptop9138
      @willuptop9138 Před 3 lety +2

      And also the occasional nuclear explosion with the lightning

    • @jrlsky
      @jrlsky Před 3 lety +1

      @@PH_navyist76
      ,!,!?!,!

  • @Xn1y7x
    @Xn1y7x Před 2 lety +2

    When rumble user is now super angry: 1:27

  • @nataliesue2485
    @nataliesue2485 Před 2 lety

    Love what you did there, at the end. 🤣

  • @deividasradziunas3696
    @deividasradziunas3696 Před 3 lety +215

    I died on 4:13. I haven't laughed like that in a long time.

  • @yourundercoverfbi3081
    @yourundercoverfbi3081 Před 4 lety +43

    0:41 thats like from a badass Sci-Fi movie