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Lightning is one of the most dramatic and powerful examples of weather - but did you know there are many different types of lightning, all of which occur for different reason?
Cloud to ground - Negative
Usually occurs between a negatively charged thundercloud and the positively charged surface of the Earth. Very common in mature thunderstorms, especially over continental regions.
Ground to cloud
Lightning contains both upward and downward streams of electrical energy. In a ground-to-cloud strike, the streams from the ground are illuminated more than the actual strike itself.
Intracloud & Cloud to Cloud
Intracloud lightning takes place between two areas of the cloud which have different charges. A common type of lightning as it is easy for it to travel the small distances between different regions of the cloud. Cloud to cloud lightning is very similar to intracloud Lightning passes between a positively-charged region of one cloud and a negatively-charged region of another
Anvil crawlers
A type of intracloud lightning that travels between the main core of a convective storm and the anvil region. Latest research suggests the two regions have distinct and independent charging mechanisms. Occurs from the anvil of a distant thunderstorm, but is capable of travelling many miles from the storm’s location. Charging and discharging of thundercloud anvils is less well understood than other lightning strikes.
Sheet lightning
Sheet lightning is simply Intracloud lightning which is obscured by a portion of thick cloud. This leads to the effect of the entire cloud appearing illuminate.
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@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather 7 лет назад

Have you ever seen any of these lightning types? Let us know in the comments. Even better - send us a link to a video if you have one!

@cellogirl11rw55 6 лет назад

Met Office - Learn About Weather You missed one type- ball lightning. I know that not everyone considers this phenomenon to be lightning, but, I believe it's important to discuss it because it occurs with thunderstorms, and it has been known to cause injury, as well as property damage. I have personally seen this phenomenon. One evening, during a particularly intense thunderstorm, I saw a bright blue ball about the size of a tennis ball form in the air about 50 feet away from my house during a severe thunderstorm with abundant lightning after a close lightning strike. It then proceeded to float towards my house and passed through an open window in my living room, where I was reading a book, stopping about 5 feet in front of my face. The lights started flickering as it buzzed around the room until it disappeared with the next lightning strike. Needless to say, I now close all my windows during thunderstorms.

@GoldAndDangerous 6 лет назад

We have intracloud lightning right now. All bright red lightnings. Very pretty - Especially with the moon next to it.

@mariewagner5283 5 лет назад

Hi! I saw a bizarre phenomenon last night & can't find anything like it online. The electrical currents were visibly traveling along all the trees in my neighborhood. It looked like tinsel strands on all the trees. The thunder never followed it & it hadn't started raining yet. There were no lightning strikes & the trees did not burn. (And no, I didnt see Moses outside my window 😜). DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS? It didnt show up on my phone camera even with the lights out although it was obvious with the human eye.

@kevin_anderson750 5 лет назад

Met Office - Learn About Weather not spectacular but here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SfovOK--YWk.html

@bassraja1978 4 года назад

@@mariewagner5283 check this phenomenon called st.elmos fire Occurs on pointed objects like cattle horns, trees, church towers and aeroplanes wings

@azurehue2248 2 года назад

A few years ago I was fortunate enough to witness a lightning storm in southern Alabama. An incredible amount of intracloud lightning, so high up the thunder was barely heard, that never seemed to stop. It was surreal; almost alien. Nothing but swirling masses of dark sky illuminated by lightning every second, flickering in and out. No rain. No thunder, as I said. Just lightning and swirling clouds.

@nadiaruppeliusl5555 9 месяцев назад

Thank goodness

@nadiaruppeliusl5555 9 месяцев назад

Happy birthday dear

@Blitzedzz 5 месяцев назад

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@GranndmaStories 4 года назад

Got on here because I saw 2 cloud to cloud lightning strikes and I remembered they were kinda rare

@colemarie9262 4 года назад

Saw the most gorgeous intracloud/sheet lightning last night. The lightning was partially obscured by dark storm clouds, next to big swaths of grey, not-quite-night sky, so every few seconds the dark mass would suddenly light up in great detail with deep purple and blue tones. It not only illuminated the clouds beautifully, but also put the edges of the storm in this incredibly sharp contrast with the grey sky. It was so cool.

@leifcron8054 3 года назад

Nature is absolutely beautiful! Everything is beautiful made. It's amazing!

@ryanslack2666 Год назад

Best thing I ever saw was purple lightning in Spain. Beautiful and vibrant. And my god the thunder.

@medb8882 4 месяца назад

Same here, I can’t remember which of the canaries, maybe Gran Canaria, as a child myself and my dad saw from our window, lightning connect in the clouds above into a full circle in the sky, almost perfectly surrounding the circle of the hotel buildings from above, where in the centre there were a few pools. I was baffled and asked my dad how it happened and he was just as speechless as I was. Tuscany also has some gorgeous storms, usually later in summer

@thelightninghunter23 7 лет назад

You forgot positive lightning. They lower positive charge to ground, tend to be more powerful, and commonly occur when "anvil crawlers" contact the ground.

@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather 7 лет назад

Thanks Kuba, great suggestion. We will certainly be producing more videos around lightning and how it is formed in the future, where we can touch on positive lightning.

@samuelodonoughoe1091 4 года назад

And grease...it’s automatic,systematic,hydromatic.....well it’s a grease lightning..😉

@peterrivney552 3 года назад

One that you could have mentioned is ball lightning it is very rare but still a form of lighting.. that can float slowly and go through windows and walls I heard the same with regular lighting as well can pass through things ...

@nicholasdickens2801 4 года назад

Fantastic how amazing nature is.

@commentmonster7435 4 года назад

Nature is a boss.

@cellogirl11rw55 6 лет назад

My favorite type of lightning is the anvil crawler because it looks like an outstretched hand, and the way it crawls across the sky is absolutely facinating.

@annieslots2941 Год назад

Sheet lightning is my favorite. I like how the clouds glow.

@brandondressen6428 3 года назад

Brilliant and short/sweet to the point which is highly desired but rarely done in RU-vid world...Great video thankyou

@khai_xi 5 лет назад

Number 3 and 5 is so cool!

@Khirillin 5 лет назад

I saw a cloud to cloud strike, Im inpressed by nature.

@PeterMackett 7 лет назад

I saw most of them the other night!,loads of cloud to cloud and intra cloud lightning and anvil crawlers.

@dangyang2683 4 года назад

I love lightning

@Joel-yj3ic 8 месяцев назад

We had a 3 story tree house when I was younger. Huge thunderstorm. A friend legitimately got paranoid and wouldn't shut up about how dangerous it was to be in a tree. Not wanting to hear that, I finally got him to shut up. A bolt instantly hit 30 feet away directly in front of us. It split into 3 forks at eye level. Lightning looks blue from a distance. This was the most brilliant pink I have ever seen! Huge sparks everywhere! The most amazing thing I have ever seen. And then I was the first one to jump out of the tree house. I might have hit the ground before the thunder stopped! Glad I saw it. But I'm good now.

@Joel-yj3ic 8 месяцев назад

30 years later I got to see lightning strike the front of an airliner and exit the back going down the interstate. Clear skies except for a storm 15 miles or more away. I wish I had been closer.

@nickranieri4844 4 года назад

Nice! Thank you

@kevin_anderson750 5 лет назад

This is so cool

@waynecalvert2148 3 года назад

I saw one in the UK, in the Yorkshire area, a few years back that brought me here, because I only vaguely remember how it looked and I want to see it again. If I remember correctly the entire sky was dark but with every strike it illuminated the entire sky so you could see the beautiful cloud formation, it was like a woven ripple effect, completely uniform and covered the as much sky as I could see. It must have been intracloud as only in any gaps in the ripples could you see the lightning strikes. Most of the time it just flashed a deep purple.

@awmgaming9006 Год назад

Few months ago I encounter the 3 type lightning that u show in video

@ps9906 2 года назад

I once saw lightning that covered the sky. It looked like cracked glass. It continued for hours. Very scary

@Princess_angel456 2 года назад

Whoa scary lightning

@sandequation2653 Год назад

I like the music, thanks for making this.

@paytonsamuels2594 4 года назад

Intra cloud lightning is the only type of lightning that doesn't hurt people on the surface of the earth, but it can hurt planes

@safespace4680 4 года назад

Theres also Transient Luminous events, aka mesospheric lightning. It cant hurt neither surface people or planes, because its high in the mesosphere. It can cause malfunctioning in vehicles (shuttles, satellites, etc.) above thunderstorms, but are harmless aside from that.

@itsjuskae 5 лет назад

This is actually kinda cool

@spurthichadharam9144 3 года назад

Thank you, I think we can or shall study the kinds of light and observe visible frequencies and relation between small animals and smaller frequencies, large animals and large frequencies..

@johnrojas9535 3 года назад

I like the cloud to cloud strikes

@isabellehogan4171 3 года назад

It’s thunder and logging really heavy were I am right now and I got caught out in it on a dog walk earlier this evening

@kiralynzelaya3036 4 года назад

the best video i ve ever seen

@huhnchenmitreis5258 3 года назад

I find storms relaxing

@chrisbahnsen7551 5 месяцев назад

The 30 minute rule for staying inside after the last rumble finally became understood when a bolt from the blue struck under a mile away from me in a sunny sky. It was like a hairline crack in a blue stained glass window.

@dbpov5422 6 лет назад

I have a video up of a thunderstorm yesterday, really nice cloud to cloud strike

@allanegleston4931 Год назад

thanks for your information. russian children are taught that lighting has a return charge too also the worlds longest clear air lightning ( mega flash) covered 3 us states at a distance of 400 miles .

@veryfunnydidlaugh2460 Год назад

I remember being so terrifed when i first saw intracloud

@smg7602 4 года назад

8: Ball lightning. Also called St Elmo's fire. It is very rare and missed in this video

@TimHollingworth 4 месяца назад

Probably missed it because they don't have any video evidence. My grandmother always used to open the window to let out the ball lightning in case we were hit.

@natashaelenamuhammadjazri2312 3 года назад

im watching this video bit i still confused over what kind of lightning i saw. it didn't produce much sounds. there's some thunder but the sound is super faint and it's pretty much silent. but it looks like either intracloud or cloud to cloud.

@kimshub8062 2 года назад

Sheet lightning is so common in me

@The_New_Abnormal_World_Order 3 года назад

I saw an unusual type of lightning in the UK, at the end of August last year. The lightning came out from the top of the large thunder cloud, pointing towards the blue sky above. The bolts were short and didn't seem to connect with anything. I've never seen lightning bolts point upwards before. Which type of lightning would that have been?

@mohamedeassa 3 года назад

Look up sprites

@syedmajidahmed8292 2 года назад

SubhaAllah incredible scary thunderstorms here in Chennai, India

@budgiebirdsalot4410 5 лет назад

2:22 who else saw a face in the thundercloud?

@danny037 5 лет назад

Yep totally saw it 👌

@GranndmaStories 4 года назад

Same

@RichardNguyenLTD 2 года назад

So beautiful but dangerous!

@NotTheMaestro 4 года назад

Who else is trying to find out what type of lightning is in the sky. As I’m typing there is cloud to cloud.

@avedic 4 года назад

Can you even begin to imagine how our far distant hominid ancestors must have perceived this? Fascinating to even ponder that....

@ryneagheilim9782 Год назад

Which lightning are you? I like the Anvil Crawler, so badass

@parkij11 4 года назад

All 6 September 2020 All Around The World & Through The Yeɑrs.

@volcanictempest78 3 года назад

i felt so safe before knowing about ground to cloud lighting

@hobbytoby8887 2 года назад

how interesting

@pallavi.s.r814 5 лет назад

I had a clip of intracloud lightening

@danielledewitt1 4 года назад

Fork lightning does bad things. We were struck by fork lightning once when me and my sister were kids. It burned the walls, smoke everywhere. Due to visual impairment I can’t see or hear where the flashing and bangs are coming from. I don’t care if it’s sheet lightning or what lightning is bad.

@sanjaysimon4893 5 лет назад

Pls let us know of electric current from Lighting and Research

@mndbz 2 года назад

0:51 this sound scary🤯

@carlcampbell8490 3 года назад

I’m 10 years old and I already know about that

@selsoselo2214 10 месяцев назад

seven forms of lightning breathing

@walterbatch5296 7 лет назад

Do these types of lightning strike appear in different parts of the world????

@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather 7 лет назад

Hi Walter - sorry for the slow reply. We put your question to one of our lightning experts and he got back to us with this answer:- "Basically, we can see any of these types of lightning anywhere in the world. However, some are more common than others. Intra-cloud lightning is more common than cloud-to-ground at mid and higher latitudes. Over the tropics, cloud-to-ground lightning and ground-to-cloud lightning become more frequent as occurs as often as intra-cloud lightning. I don’t think I have ever seen an Anvil Crawler in the UK - I believe you are more than likely to see them over continental Europe or the USA."

@walterbatch5296 7 лет назад

MANY THANKS FOR YOUR QUICK RESPONSE.......

@walterbatch5296 7 лет назад

Many thanks for interesting an swer to my query.

@paytonsamuels2594 6 лет назад

+Walter Batch Lightning is globally, it happens all around the world, no matter where you're at on earth lightning happens because storms travel all around the world just like seasons

@teshanpasindu9971 6 лет назад

Walter Batch good

@missdolittle 2 года назад

Soooo, there is no ball-lightning then since you didn't mention it?

@LA-cw6rc 3 года назад

What month do you think has the most lightening/thunder storms in the UK?

@midnight89637 4 года назад

The lightning is here oh no ahh😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@SammieeeCx Год назад

❤

@themagnificent6844 7 лет назад

I have seen many sheet lightning and inter cloud lightning and even the Bolt from the blue

@paytonsamuels2594 6 лет назад

+ƬнєMαgηιfιcєηт Bolt from the blue lightning is the most creepy & dangerous kind of lightning

@snattler 5 лет назад

I was standing on my porch a long time ago. There was a storm about 30 miles away. Blue sky where I was. Suddenly there was a crack and lightning hit the TV antenna on the farmhouse across the road from me.

@Handlewriting 2 года назад

POV you saw a cloud to cloud strike irl

@shawntepitts488 2 года назад

Yush

@mrandrossguy9871 6 лет назад

Doesn’t IN Cloud lighting Not make any noise ?

@jirehchoo2151 3 года назад

Type 8: Titan Transformation

@DeepMyst_Music 3 года назад

Ribbon lightning isn't written here ! 🤔🎀🌩️

@robNsteveFilms 2 года назад

What about red sprites?

@flqw3d40 4 года назад

its so purple

@Vengyy. 3 года назад

Where are the positive cloud to ground strikes

@flipflop4004 4 года назад

man i always the sheet lightning thing

@mightygamer22op 4 месяца назад

You forgot ball lightning

@lucya7223 5 лет назад

If a fire restarts after rain couldn't it be because of lightning

@michealham3208 3 года назад

You didn’t mention red sprites

@vincecox8376 4 года назад

Lightning is a life force energy, It flashes it doesn't arc!! big difference, It doesn't have a polarity as most suggest.. it is more like the center of a magnet..not the north or south poles but the real power of a magnet is at it's center. The "B" field. any density of the static field will attract similar energy within it's grasp.. it will assimilate then crash as a lightning bolt "FLASH". We would all be dead without it.. The sound of thunder comes from the compression left in the space it once occupied.

@danielledewitt1 4 года назад

Vince Cox You’ve never had you’re house struck by lightning have you?

@vincecox8376 4 года назад

@@danielledewitt1 Not my house, but I was in Washington DC and it hit just five feet from me and I checked the ground where it hit it was ICE cold even though several rocks flew out of the ground.

@danielledewitt1 4 года назад

Vince Cox Our house was struck by fork lightning when we were kids here in manchester uk.

@mgsilg7996 7 лет назад

How about the mysterious ball lightning? I have a ball lightning video.

@paytonsamuels2594 6 лет назад

+Max Leung If you're talking about that video on your channel with that plane then what part of the video does the ball lightning happen?

@sydandnanadochnahl3411 7 лет назад

I seen cloud to cloud. bolts from the blue and sheet lightning

@MetOfficeLearnAboutWeather 7 лет назад

Wow! You are a very lucky lightning spotter to have seen all three.

@owenthompson7070 7 лет назад

What about sprites?

@parkij11 4 года назад

Alright.

@smg7602 4 года назад

So where was Ball Lightning in this list?

@smg7602 4 года назад

@@danielledewitt1 oh dear Dewitt or is it dimwit Try Google

@Dan-eu1dz 7 лет назад

lightning ball. it can manage to fly inside airplane which is perfectly sealed

@katzfam1089 6 лет назад

you forgot positive lightning

@siregg9 3 года назад

I saw a lightning in clouds it never striked

@ssebunn 3 года назад

I have Ombrophobia

@pr-jensen 3 года назад

Pers hammer

@paytonsamuels2594 4 года назад

All these years I thought cloud-to-cloud lightning was something like this shown on this video :ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zrsny_TKqtE.html at 9:18

@Loup_Solitaire007 2 года назад

This list is clearly not complete.

@mehedihassan60 4 года назад

0:39

@davecrupel2817 5 лет назад

7 quote "incredible" lightning types, yet you dont have 1 single less-than-common type in this video. No Positive lightning? No heat lightning? No Web or flickering web? None of those interesting multi-bolt strikes from wind farms? No traveling lightning? No sprites? No cloud-to-sky? No rapid-strike? (Just replaced your video in 1 comment btw) Just ground-to-cloud at best? Terrible video. Dislike for clickbait and near 3 minutes of anticipation for the actually interesting forms of lightning. Nothing "incredible" about them.