Red Sprites and Blue Jets Explained - New Discovery!
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2020
- Science of how red sprites and blue jets form over thunderstorms. Some of the greatest red sprites ever caught on camera with easy to understand explanations including a new discovery are highlighted in this video. Explore the colorful world of Transient Luminous Events including gigantic jets, elves, halos and more as they are initiated by massive horizontally extensive lightning flashes in thunderstorms far below.
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RED SPRITES and BLUE JETS EXPLAINED
On rare nights with clear visibility over powerful distant thunderstorms, you might be able to see and capture red sprites. Sprites are large scale electrical discharges occurring high above thunderstorms in the upper atmosphere. They are massive events, sometimes 50 kilometers tall by 50 kilometers wide. Sprites belong to a mysterious and colorful group of phenomenon called Transient Luminous Events, or TLEs. Other TLE’s include halos, Elves, trolls, secondary jets, Blue starters, Blue jets and the magnificent gigantic jets. But what exactly are these transient luminous Events, and how do they form?
In 2019 I teamed up with one of the most successful TLE photographers in the world, Paul Smith. Our objective was to simultaneously document TLEs from different locations to help US understand and CAPTURE them better. We didn’t know what we would find, if anything… But we never expected to DISCOVER a NEW TLE.
RED SPRITE DISCOVERY
Visual reports of Transient Luminous Events date back several centuries.
It wasn’t until 1989 that the first ones were accidentally caught on camera.
Years after discovery, they were named sprites for their spirit like nature.
BASIC PHYSICS:
In my last video we showed how one lightning flash can abruptly change the electric field triggering a second lightning flash in a sort of domino effect. Sprites are also initiated by a large electric field change that occurs during a massive horizontally extensive lightning strike far below. These parent flashes transfer huge amounts of charge and are almost always positive in polarity… Meaning that the earth rapidly gains a net positive charge from the strike. But pools of positive charge near the tops of thunderstorm complexes also change, abruptly gaining negative charge.
This suddenly creates a powerful electric field between the tops of thunderstorms and a high concentration of positively charged ions existing 100 kilometers or so up into the lower ionosphere. It’s this new imbalance that can initiate a sprite.
BLUE JETS:
On occasion, a cloud flash will have one end of the leader exit the upper extent of the thunderstorm and propagate toward the upper atmosphere. The rarified air and low pressure of the upper atmosphere leads to a visible transformation in the leader as the ionization travels upward. This is how a blue jet forms, as well as gigantic jets.
SECONDARY JETS:
Sometimes a large sprite event can trigger a second TLE. We call these secondary jets. Secondary jets become visible near the tops of thunderstorms where Nitrogen excites in the blues or purples and extend upward to altitudes where Nitrogen excites more red. In a photograph of a sprite and secondary jet event, you can see the gradual transitioning from blues to reds as the pressure quickly decreases in altitude.
NEW TLE DISCOVERY
On May 25, 2019 I was documenting a vibrant sprite storm over Oklahoma and captured something I’ve never seen or heard of. After two large sprite events, a mysterious green afterglow appeared. It seemed as if the sprite had triggered a small Aurora. Early that next morning I called Paul to discuss the strange captures. He was the first to agree it was something new and hypothesized that it was likely oxygen being excited by powerful sprites. Keeping in the theme of sprites, trolls and elves, we are referring to these Green emissions from excited Oxygen in Sprite Tops as GhOSTs.
CREDITS:
This video was made possible by the hard work and generosity of Paul Smith, Frankie Lucena, Scott Currens and research by lightning scientist Tom Warner. For more in-depth understanding of how lightning works, visit Tom Warners website at ZTresearch.com
MUSIC by Hank Schyma, Dan Workman and Christine Wu.
Extremely awesome. Would be happy to use my Phantom camera to try to capture ghosts with you.
please make this happen
You should definitely try this. It would be amazing
Hank, i just subscribed to see that colab!
Please make this happen
MAKE IT HAPPEN!
Imaging being able to watch sprites, lightning, and see the Milky Way at the same time. Hank’s profession is amazing.
And falling stars
The visibility is so bad where I live. Hopefully, I’ll be able to move to a remote location without lights and smog everywhere. Sigh. I’d pay big bucks to be able to stargaze freely every night.
baksu or get sued dang where do you live that the sky is so bad. I’m from Florida and I can drive 3 hours to a spot where the stars and Milky Way are so bright they cast a shadow. Also if you drive like an hour out of your city I think you’d be surprised how many stars are in the sky.
Brandon Smith I live in the northwestern part of Alabama :/ The farther out you go from my house (into the rural backroad countryside), the better the sky is. A lot of ET searchers love going to the backwoods here. There’s this place where people claim to see lights and ufo sightings. I’ve never been out there though, but it’s the perfect field to stargaze in because of the large stretch of flat land. It’s quite a distance, but it’s worth the drive.
Brandon Smith It’s amazing how the sky has changed, when I was younger (I was 5 or 6 in 2007) the sky definitely wasn’t as polluted as it is now. I can see quite a bit of stars on a good clear night if I look hard enough. I have really bad eyesight though, so that could also be the cause for me not being able to see the stars.
In 1985, I was 14 years old and on a connector flight between Tokyo and Nagoya, Japan. There was a thunderstorm we were flying around and I was glued to the window, watching it. I saw what I called "fuzzy pink lightning" shooting out of the tops of the clouds. There was one blue jet, but I even convinced myself I was seeing things because there was more pink. When I got home, I asked every science teacher and "smart person" I could find what it was that I had seen. Most of them tried to tell me I had imagined it. A couple pilots I talked to told me they had seen similar lightning, but had no explanation, and one said no one had believed him. Just after I graduated high school in 1989, I heard about Pink Sprites. In years after, I even saw some of the people I had asked who told me I was imagining it and told them about sprites. Most still thought I was making it up. There was no google or youtube to show them at the time.
People told me I was imagining things when I told them about similar colors of light flashes coming directly up from the earth where there are faults near us. It's only recently that there has been enough video evidence of this happening during earthquakes that people started to take it seriously. However, to my knowledge, I am one of the few people who has noticed them when there wasn't an earthquake but coming up in the area of the fault. Still don't know what they are.
@@whoever6458 In 1994, I saw what I think was "ball lightning". I have no idea what it was, and make no claim. It was like a large, slow-moving meteorite, bluish white, not too luminous, moving downward about 15 degrees off horizontal until it went behind the hill. It wasn't a bolide, though. It was too slow. It wasn't a crashing plane or satellite coming down, either. To this day I don't know what I saw.
@@seanbaskett5506I saw one a few years ago, maybe 2015
It was something very similar to what you just described, but dissapeared suddenly, I am not in contact with the people who saw it too
@@whoever6458 Unfortunately, it's hard to say for sure if earthquake lights are valid without more scientific research into it. One theory is that they're power flashes from strained power lines, grids, so forth. And, that's very possible. But, I would be thrilled if more study went into it to see if it's due to electric charges being triggered by the movement of the plates. There's so many minerals in the ground, various layers, it'd be a very complex thing to try and study... but it's a fascinating thing.
Just need to get something off my chest: I'm 70 now; born in 1950. When I was about 6 years old, with the Cold War going on, there were many Sci-Fi movies about robots and flying saucers, the typical semi-scary shit. My parents bought me a "Robbie the Robot" toy, and we had gone to see a "flying saucers land in Washington D.C. and invade!" movie earlier in the day...and then went home.
It was late afternoon and I had gone outside into a field of old strip pits to play; there was a massive thunderstorm brewing and I knew I had to go home before it hit. It was clear where I was but the clouds were high overhead and moving to cover us. I was looking up at them because the thunder was coming closer.
Suddenly there was a red dot in the cloud followed by a crack of thunder. When I say "red dot", I mean a perfectly circular disk of red light. It only lasted a fraction of a second, but I'll never forget it, because it was literally as round as a manhole cover. ROUND. Not "roundish", but a perfect disk.
I went on home and told my parents about it; they promptly told me I was just imagining it because of the sci-fi movie we had seen. Now, I didn't say "I saw a flying saucer"; I just described it exactly as I saw it. THEY thought I was trying to get THEM to say flying saucer, but I wasn't. And I was hurt and disappointed that they just dismissed it completely.
I went on to become a scientist, had a great and fun career and am now retired... but I never forgot what I had seen and for over half a century kept looking for an explanation...until I finally got one: I had seen a Sprite from the bottom up- apparently I just happened to have that sucker bore-sighted The duration was correct; in later years I had estimated it as lasting around 1/4th of a second- just long enough to see it and form an unmistakable image. I never discussed science with my parents after that day, no matter what cool science I was into; they lost their chance to participate in my scientific life by rejecting my honest observation and basically calling me crazy, dishonest, or stupid- take your pick.
Their loss. But eventually solving the mysteries one comes across from time to time was the main driving force behind my entire career, and finally solving them is very sweet indeed.
Really nice testimony. Thankyou for sharing this. You must feel vindicated by this video. Life has strange ways of confirming truth and really shitty timing.
I've seen it too. Nobody believe me i thought it was an alien 👾 ufo 🛸
I'm happy for you buddy! Keep living the dream! We need more wonderful stories of science in our lives.
Sounds like you just got unnecessarily salty. Your parents shouldn’t have been so flippant, but you definitely overreacted if you shut them out of that part of your life over something so small.
Yeah, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say you're not 70, or you'd be over that by now. Also, nobody simply says "I'm a scientist". There are so many fields, and anybody that specializes in one would never reduce it to something as simple as "scientist". You sound like a young man who has trouble relating to his parents.
As a kid learning about a storm chasing, I can always count on Pecos Hank. He’s teached me so much and I just love everything about him. He’s such a caring person especially to animals!
Hank is a thoughtful and wise teacher. Let's all be grateful to learn from him.
If your a kid, do yourself a future favor: don’t use your real name anywhere on the internet whatsoever. Change it when you can.
He’s been a great teacher for me too as a 17 year old aspiring the same future.
That means a lot Ethan. Thanks for tuning in again.
Primethread Agreed
It's always a good day when Pecos Hank uploads
Yeah
My two current favorite channels are pecos and osfirsttimer
It really is
yeah
Yeah👍🏻👻👻👻
The fact that they don't look that big but are actually massive makes them terrifying
I’ve only ever seen this once, when I was about 10 years old in Melbourne, Australia (sometime in the mid-1990s). There was an isolated severe thunderstorm on an otherwise clear autumn night about 60km away that I could see flashing away on the distant horizon. Occasionally these weird red tentacle-things flashed high above the cloud, and both myself and my dad had no idea what they were. I only learned what they were in the past few years, but I’ll never forget seeing them. Pretty awesome.
Hi, form California. Originally form Woomera.
It's so fast, isn't it?
Up there, electricity meets less resistance. the sprite happens from a (difference of potential). Just imagine a storm; like nylon socks, on a carpet, and the earth's magnetic field is your older sibling.
Awesome. If I had ever seen one it would have been burned in my memory. Very cool.
Hey, did you happen to tell your Dad what the red tentacles thingies were, after finding it out?
I’ve never seen a red sprite in my entire life, and I’m shocked to find out that they exist
Generally I'm shocked just by seeing lightning....
@@jomormont Naw, Donald Trump is enough to tickle my fancy.
Rahul Kher he’s hilarious
@@jomormont Trump was hilarious a few years ago. Then in 2018 he stopped being as funny. Now, in 2020, he's not funny in the slightest. He's caused the death of over 180,000 innocent people.
@@TheFirstCurse1 Lmao! That's actually even more funny. One because, he didn't cause any of that to begin with. And two, the CDC has changed that number from 180k, to less than 10k on their website.
Didn't even know such things existed, amazing
I knew they existed via the aircraft world, however had no idea you could see them from the ground. Seen plenty of distant T-storms at night but never looked for sprites thinking you needed to be at high altitude. This video is awesome.
You still don't. It's word salad. I can speak the words of the Kale . The truth of the Crystal will reveal you and me. The Cosmic vibrations call to our being!
Aand it's all just bullshit to sell a few "help yourself" -books.
They dont
@@laalki80 I agree
@@laalki80 the government will give us thier explanations to keep us at Bay....if we challenge them we lose....
"Ordinary people can still discover something new."
Hank, you're far from ordinary. Not only do you get closer to active tornadoes than any sensible person ever would, but your photography of the storms you follow is very often absolutely stunning.
Far from ordinary yet so very much so. He's just a dude who started with a regular fascination of tornadoes that slowly grew into a "lemme try seein a couple" to "maybe I could get into this more" to "maybe I should learn about the way these things work" to "maybe I should really try to share this magnificence with the world" to making a fantastic channel with beautiful footage and occasionally highly educational videos such as this.
If you look at that last step, he sure does seem like something else, and in a way he is. But how wild is it to go from step to step? Step one to step two. Hell you can even do it a little out of order and start with learning their anatomy/formation/etc. He's a dude who found his passion and pursued it like so many other storm chasers. We may love his work more than others, but that doesn't take away from other skilled storm chasers either. They too are regular people who pursued their passion. That's pretty ordinary to me ;)
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0:15 When you freeze-frame at this moment, there are clearly "split second" moments of ball lightning within the Sprite. I suspect there are ways to magnetically constrain these electrical moments to produce 'ball lightning' like this lonely little Will-o-the-Wisp going across the train tracks: czcams.com/video/1bBNeyrMOJE/video.html - connect the dots.💝
Well tbf to photograph TLEs you just need a decent high speed camera and to be a good distance away from a thunderstorm so that isn't particularly hard. And the sentiment is true, there's a ton we're learning about the atmosphere because nowadays everyone carries around a pretty decent camera and is somewhat decent at using them so there's a ton of events that had never been captured on camera before that we're starting to get data on now.
4:58 "assuming you weren't raised in a barn"
*Slowly raises hand*
me who currently has 3 horses a mule 6 donkeys a cow and a large bale of hay less than 50 feet away: ummm....
I too was raised in a barn. The anti-barny establishment is out to get us!
Kidding. I laughed so hard.
I wasn't raised in a barn and never did that experiment.
Maybe my whole country is a barn, wouldn't be shocked.
That’s what I said, I’m wondering if we are sheep being raised as live stock where we are at. Is that what they’re trying to say……
As do my homeschool kids 😅
I've never seen this in my 28 years of living.. incredible.
Because they havent always sprayed salt in the atmosphere for creating clouds to counter global warming.
This is "chemtrails"
@@RKroese no you actual fricking investment, they're literally where chemtrails aren't.
@@RKroese
"Chemtrails"
OK BOOMER!
Me too!!
Ranstone OK BOOMER! xD
when you get that one notification that pecos hank uploaded, you exit out of ANY other thing you were doing immediately. and you watch the video!
What about a new bootlegged Buckethead video? I guess, cross that bridge, if I happen upon it.
pornhub paused!
You could call them “Green Halos from Oxygen in Sprite Tops” and your acronym would be even more perfect 😉
Yeah lol
First time I understand these phenomena with detail all the way. Best explanation and easy to understand.
I've always wanted to be a meteorologist since I was 4, and Pecos Hank made me learn more about storms for when I go to college (I am 14) in atmospheric science, he is the best teacher in the world!!
Good luck my man. You got this.
Learn all you can. The studying never ends!
Go pursuit your craft, man, this is what you love doing, go on with it!
Awesome, go kick butt!
I was just like you. I had already started looking at colleges that offered meteorology. This was in the 80's. Very few colleges offered meteorology programs then. Unfortunately, when I was in the 10th grade I started drinking and experimenting with drugs and I became addicted. This is just a friendly warning. Don't destroy your dreams like I did : )
This has become my favorite and most relevant channel. I can't express the joy I get from these videos. Weather has always fascinated me. From my house breathing while the eye of Andrew was passing, witnessing the 91' Lemont, IL tornado outside a basement window and many other amazing sights. I'm so humbled by weather. Thanks Hank.
Andrew? Really. Went down from Atl with supplies on an 18 wheeler the next day. It was a devastating site pulling in. Worked for a week & brought what plants were left up
@@clairewiechulla4640 What a sight that was, I was too young to do any real work back then but we ferried friends to Homestead to help with the clean up. I'll never forget the sight. We were lucky, we had some pretty bad damage but nothing like those just south of us.
7:11 I've never heard Hank squeal like a kid at Christmas from this amount of excitement! Adorable and funny simultaneously!
Agree. Rarely does hank react that way.
Never knew sprites even existed, just incredible. I've learned more in a few of your videos than I ever did at school!
The green color reminds me of when you see a flash and you have that random color spot left in your sight after readjusting to the flash.
yea
That's not a random color spot, it's the complementary color to the initial light flash. Overexposure of the eyes to a certain color makes the eyes blind to that color for a while, causing it to see its complementary color.
is your eye oxygen getting excited or something
@@phroggysaur4708 naw, the color is in your brain. Your retina and your visual cortex get used to seeing red there and compensate to not get overstimulated; when the red input stops it registers the complimentary color. People usually make these “afterimage” optical illusions with green and red, but you can easily see it when you stare at an a yellow incandescent light for a second then cover your eyes: you’ll see a purple glow-blob in the same shape behind your eyelids.
That's probably why some people suspected camera artifacts.
So fascinating. I would love to study weather one day as a living
Yeah, very nice footage he got! I really wish I could see this in person
Start now!
Same! In fact Pecos Hank is the reason I love to find storms and predict what will happen.
Says the guy who shoots lightning out his fingers.
Do it! I'm starting my bachelor in a year! That's step 1
The childlike excitement the photographers get when they capture a sprite makes me so happy man
For an "ordinary person," you make some of the best quality scientific videos I have seen! The quality of your footage, descriptions, explanations, and animations are outstanding! I also love how you include your own music. Keep up the good work!
He's NOT an "ordinary person", but an extraordinary human being!!
I am a simple man. I see pecks Hank and lightning, I like the video.
I like pecks Hank
Hanks peckr
Pecks Hank is my favorite storm chaser
Pecks Hank is the best storm chaser ever
I’m just glad you didn’t say “single” man!
Good video and explanation.
This is honestly so underrated and deserves more credit, you have left me sitting here completely amazed and interested about something I never really expected. Great work Hank!!
My cousin and I saw those as kids, about '72, ran like hell into the house. We thought the aliens were on the way.
That’s absolutely awesome, Hank.
In the interest of identifying possible sources, I’d like to recommend simultaneous capture using a 532nm filter on one camera and a near-IR (at least up to past 1064nm) filter on the other. By spectrally separating the cameras with passive filters, you should be able to dig a little deeper into the characteristics driving the colors, and by extension, the chemical makeup of the molecules driving the visible phenomena.
Good luck, have fun, and stay safe!
Great comment Mr Dayton duck
The only thing cooler than learning about this stuff is seeing how excited Paul and Hank get when they capture sprites.
Nice concise and understandable explanations. I've been kind of perplexed at seeing "upward red lightning" over distant t-storms here in AZ; in fact I saw a couple more tonight. This makes a lot of sense, and your videos correspond pretty much exactly with what I've seen with my naked eye (although in much greater detail). Funny the stuff you stumble across "surfing" CZcams late at night. 😛
Good luck this season hank!😉 can’t wait for the incredible content you’ll create. Be safe!!
Not much for tornadoes this season. Folks in tornado Alley aren't complaining. I'll do my best to wrangle whatever Mother Nature throws at us.
Pecos Hank you missed it in Illinois and Wisconsin there were tons of tornadoes and a few rotations near my house
Central Iowa has had a few warnings and a tornado this week. Too many for my liking though.
@@PecosHank Down here in Texas something always happens, so I bet you can get something here one day🤣
@@PecosHank Have you ever thought about chasing storms in Canada?
It blows my mind that you were able to discover something new, in my opinion you are the best storm chaser, not only because you look, but because you actively search for new information, you inspire me so much! I hope to discover something new in this world of seemingly unlimited information, thanks!
the green after glow of green is because most of the nitrogen gets ionized due to getting converted in plasma leaving a large amount of oxygen behind for a short time which the left over charges interreact with creating that green glow of oxygen before the plasma turns back into gas
What really intrigues me is how sprites seem to be "pre-formed;" unlike slow-mo shots of lightning, where you see the steppers forming as they go, sprites seem to be illuminating some structure that's already there, like a jellyfish in a flash photo. I'm really curious how those structures form.
Appreciate you so much, you've become a staple of our homeschooling curriculum (science/weather supplement) for the kids... Truth be told, we all learn so much and love your uploads. You are turning our kids into little meteorologists and weather science aficionados, thanks Hank!
That's awesome!
Tell'em I said howdy Jonathan. Thanks for sharing that!
Hank - you’re killing it dude. This is great shit! Start an online course for the down season when you’re not chasing. I’m in. I’d pay good money to learn about this stuff more. You’re on the the bleeding edge man.
How cool to essentially discover and title a natural phenomena. Amazing
We had an amazing lightning storm last night, and afterwards I started looking up more info on lightning and found your channel. This is insanely cool stuff man, congratulations on being part of the discovery!
I remember watching a documentary in the 90s when I was a kid about thunderstorms. It described a "strange phenomenon" observed from space above large storms right after lightning struck, and back then, there was little else but mystery around it. Now, the strange phenomenon are known as sprites and you've found their cousin!
Never stop doing science, Hank! Stay safe!
This is *hands down* the BEST atmospheric phenomenon video I have ever watched. Thanks for making this and sharing with us!
This was extremely interesting and very well explained - I came across this while looking up information on ball lightening, and I'm so glad I clicked on the video! Some truly awe-inspiring footage, thanks so much for sharing!
WOW! So cool that you got to coin a new term for a meteorological phenomena!!! Such a cool and clever name too!! That's one for the history books!
Why does that make me think of something like a glitch in the matrix lol
Because it's green? :P
nick4819 bro it’s red
IRR_LVNT clearly you didn’t watch the vid he’s talking about the ghost above the red
Blindolo I did watch the video, I just assumed he meant the base of the video being the “red” sprites.
IRR_LVNT the whole point of the video was about the ghosts though which are green
Meanwhile, news media: scientist CONFIRM the existance of ghosts!
Yeah, “news media” like InfoWars and OANN lmao
@@LividCreature he's talking about CNN lol they did a whole fucking 4 hrs interview on it which is surprising since they never do there research
livid creature acnn and fox are just tomed down bullshit
"existEnse"
@livid creature
Sadly I've also seen more reputable news sources capitalising on shady science reporting. Everytime there's a study suggesting that x thing might give cancer to mice in certain circumastances I see newspapers being like "if you eat it you're going to die"
It's not as bad as Info Wars but it still happens
Everything about this video is just awesome. Your channel rocks dude.
Oh man Ive been really loving these videos!!! No one explains this stuff as clearly as you do its incredible!!
I've loved watching thunderstorms since childhood, the elemental power of nature has always left me awestruck but the storms we get where I live a small in comparrison to the monsters the Hank gets to see, but thanks to this channel I can ride along with one of the most listenable, knowledgable storm chasers in the world.
Thank you Pecos Hank for allowing us to ride along with you as you see these awsome events.
Without a doubt my favorite weather anomaly that you record. Best Tuesday ever.
This is hands down the most fascinating thing I’ve ever seen
I keep watching these over and over. Great video and great voice for narration. Happy Trails.
Incredible work Hank!! I’ve always found sprites to be wildly interesting. They’re gorgeous, and learning the science behind them just makes them cooler! It’s really inspiring to know that there’s still weather phenomena out there to be discovered and explored. Keep at it! I look forward to hearing more about these elusive ‘Ghosts’ in the future 😋
Cheers Sami!
You're "tornados of 2022" video came up for me so I watched it, and it was the first time I had ever heard of red sprites and so I immediately dug through your videos to see if you had an explanation and here I am!! Thanks for having this video and a bunch of others that are super informative!
Same!!!! I’m AMAZED
"You are tornados of 2022" NO THEY ARE NOT, you better take that back RIGHT NOW! Never EVER in my ENTIRE LIFE have I EVER met someone as rude as you were to Hank. Oh my lord....
That is amazing footage, The stills look like some of those Nazca lines in Peru or petroglyphs out west. Less light in those days would mean the sprites might have been easier to see and the indigenous cultures had their own ideas of what they may have been...
Interesting Jay. I'd imagine there have been many observant people having a difficult time explaining what they saw.
As a child I remember one incredible storm near Overland Park, KS where I saw what I thought was strange colored lightning. I had seen bluish lightning, yellowish, and white before but that night I kept seeing fast flashes of deep blue, purple, pink, red, and I was pretty sure I saw some green. Having watched your videos with sprites I can finally explain what I saw. Because when I told my parents, friends, and teachers, no one believed me, which made me worry that I was crazy or had imagined the colors.
I have loved storms all my life, I even did some very amateur chasing back in the late eighties when I was a teen chasing storms in a rusty, yellow 1970 Chevy Nova. I still like to turn the lights off and open the window shades to watch from the comfort of my home. But I have never seen a storm as beautiful and colorful as that one I saw when I was 7 or 8 years old which would have been either 1977 or 1978.
I love your tornado content but this was fascinating. The science behind it is so cool and brilliantly explained. Thanks heaps for all your vids. Cheers
Hands down one of my favourite weather channels, love your work Hank 😎 Much love from UK x
Storm chasing was my dream job since I was five, I really hope I get to do what you're doing soon!
I know, this footage is amazing
Little heads up, don’t count on storm chasing as a job, more of a hobby, either take on a photography buisness or find a main job :)
Just opened up CZcams to watch something random and BAM, Pecos hank new video😎
Those shots at 6:28 were breathtaking! You can see the planes obviously, but you can also see a few satellites cruising!
Such awesome thing. Also a great video Hank. Thank you for all the content you provide brotha!
Me: Is in the hospital and should be sleeping.
Hank: Uploads a video
Me: *I FEEL BETTER NOW GIVE ME MY PHONE!*
Get well soon!
Hope your doing ok now!
People everywhere losing their minds and social distancing over a slightly contagious common cold, and we had the cure all along. XD
This channel is “on par” with Vsauce, Because Science, Mark Rober, Star Talk and Destin from Smarter every day. It teaches me so much. Top quality content, thanks for your service.
i haven't seen vsauce in a really long time, i think he left youtube?
High praise comparing it with Star Talk-which would be an awesome show to have hank do a guest spot on!!
Pratwurscht Gulasch Michael Stevens is still at it. Mind field has become free and dong has become ding where he showcases “toys”. Vsauce1 is sleeping but still active, Vsause2 has just uploaded a new video and Vsauce3 uploading rarely but often cooperate with other YT. Mind field is really good!
What is "Star Talk"? Dare i ask?
@@davecrupel2817
It's a show hosted by Neil DeGrass Tyson, (the guy who hosted the remake of Cosmos), who has a comedienne as a co-host, and invites guests on to talk about stuff related to science or science fiction. It's fascinating, funny, and..... IDK... It has the feel of friends getting together to talk about things. Kind of cozy, I guess. Love the show.
This is a link to a list of guests who appeared on the show if you want an idea of content.
www.epguides.com/StarTalk/
At first its hard to see the scale, when they fire off in an empty sky. But once I saw them above the clouds in the distance I realized how big these things are. Incredible
Really cool video. I had just remembered a tv show about sprites I saw when I was a kid and stumbled upon your video. I was just looking for some cool pics but got all the info that I normally would have to look up and research for an hour after watching the video. Thanks for saving me all that time by including everything in the video. Seriously, for real, I really mean it... great video.
Notification comes up
Me: clicks as fast as I can
Agreed
SAME !! #quickasabunny
Ozone you didn’t say anything 😳
@@LilGreasyAndEm Ozone is awestruck...
@@LilGreasyAndEm Ozone's a gas. It can't talk.
We can come to an agreenmed that everyone loves Hank
Yes, yes we can
This was my first exposure to anything like this! Thank you so much for all you do to share these videos with us.
I'm so glad I started randomly watching volcano eruption videos.
I never knew these existed! It's so freaking cool!!!
OH MY GOD! Did Hank make all these animations?! I'm nominating him for the Meteorologic Hall of Fame, man. Freakin' guy's making scientific discoveries...unbelievable!
anonation???? i thought this was photograph
@@Dcwest0616-the-best-on-youtube i think they meant the explanation parts like on 4:28
My favorite drink and my favorite Weather Channel all in one place, how can I beat that.
Gigantic jet!? That's what it's called?
The grand, mystical event I witnessed as a child and held dearly to me as my legendary tale is called a Gigantic jet. Thats...fucking awesome.
Back in 2014 or 2015 I was out driving when a severe thunderstorm was rolling in behind me. I saw some bright and unusual flashes and my curiosity was peaked. So I pulled over into a parking lot and watched the sky dance with the most rapid and sideways lightning strikes I had ever seen! I was BLOWN away and scared to look away for even a second as colors started to appear as well! Pretty sure my jaw dropped. Very cool to see yourself for sure!
What a breakthrough in sprite and ghost development.. we really haven't heard much about these for a while now. Hank, love the videos, been watching for a long time.. this is great. Don't stop chasing those twirly things though..
I've only ever seen Sprites when a large thunderstorm passes from land and over the sea. To see them myself is amazing but to share the experience with others (especially the one's who think you are nuts) is far better.
Only just found your channel by chance, now subbed. Cheers.
its really exiting and useful VID, which reflecting attracting and good picture about the channel itself!
I never heard about such phenomenon before. but after this video I got a new fascinating scientific idea.
thnx for that... keep on!
You've probably been asked this, but have you ever caught ball lighting? And if so, would you make a video on that?
This is a great idea, but ball lightning is extremely rare, so much infact, that theres no recording of ball lightning ever.
@@_miobrot_603 it was caught in a news video in early 2000s in my city.
He mentioned ball lightning in his video talking about the different forms of lightning. He said that he scoured the Internet, and only found one believable image of ball lightning... a electrical sphere photoshopped into the famous Bigfoot image. Obviously a joke, but the meaning is clear. Ball lightning is extremely rare and next to nothing is known for sure about it.
AMAZING!
Although it's 5 AM in my country I'll watch this man!!
Cheers from Texas!
@@PecosHank Mr.Hank I shooted a great pic of crazy upward lightning don't know how to share it with you!
I've been wanting a documentation and explanation like this for years! Thank you, great job!
Thank you for the explanation of Transient Luminous Events and congratulations on your discovery! I also really enjoyed your background music, I love that minimalistic guitar work with heavy reverb style!
I love these sprite videos. I've stayed out longer than I normally have while photographing storms just for a chance. So I'd say you've got my interest. Wonderful :D
My husband and I found your channel this week and we absolutely adore it! We have learned so much about the sky and how weather systems work in the last several days. Thanks so much for creating this channel and posting all these videos! Now we can't wait till monsoon season here in Arizona (just a few weeks away!) :)
Hey hank, good to be seeing videos again. And Dude! Such wonders in tbe skies, and awesome, awesome soundtrack! Love it to bits, thank you so much for sharing 🙏💓🤩🤗💓
You guys are amazing! Great details in explaining this incredible lighting/sprite phenomena. I loved it.
Cheers from Australia
Hank I remember in the Early 80's the international Space Station observed Sprites in Space and Scientists were trying to figure out what they were.
I have watched loads of amateur videos, and this one is excellent! The videos with lightning and sprites are superb! It even has graphics, and Hank has an excellent speaking voice. Well done, everyone!
Peeps on the ISS have reported green flashes over lightning storms for a while (simply known as green sprites). Although, AFAIK, this certainly is some of the best photographic evidence of them!
Truly magnificent. Very professionally created presentation.
Your explanations were lucid and comprehensive yet simple.
That is a rare gift.
Thank you.
I must have been raised in a barn because I've never even heard of these. Really informative. Hope to witness this someday.
I have like 60 youtube subscriptions and honestly this is the only one that I watch like a hawk for new videos, you guys are doin gods work!
Fabulous! I'm looking for sprites this year. Amazing photography. Thank you.
That takes rgb lighting to another level!
4:57 We were raised in a barn and never got to play with them fancy Buncen burners because we might burn the barn down.
I watch you videos everyday and you taught me how to go storm chasing and for a 10 year old, it really means a lot to me. Everyone should appreciate you and love you for who you are. You are so kind to people and to animals.
Facinating. Great explanations once again.
You and/or CZcams has invaded my brain. I just saw your season wrap up video and sadly only saw 'sprites' for the first time. I was thinking what the hell...how have i not known of this beautiful thing. Then last night I was thinking what the heck are they? So I am jumping on to search up another subject and I saw this video and literally yelled out loud. I got so excited to see this video in my recommends. Thank you so much for sharing the beautiful things you experience with us. Stay safe .
This is the kind of thing that makes me crazy wanting to know EVERYTHING ! Awesome video !
The absolute best part about this field of science is that we are all learning at the same time and in real-time.
Glad to have this explained in such a simplistic way!
Just stunning. Another item for my bucket list.