Beaded Lightning Strike
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on November 29, 2018 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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A hot day with a very warm humid evening was followed by a nocturnal thunderstorm with heavy rain in the small hours of 29th November. Whilst most of the electrical discharges in this early rainy season storm were cloud-to-cloud (sheet lightning), a spectacular ground strike landed to the west of Hillside Golf Course just before 3 am. This was a very energetic bolt which lasted for almost a second and appears on 20 consecutive video frames. The accompanying animations which display the strike at full and quarter speed are followed by a mosaic which contains the four most spectacular video frame captures. The quarter speed animation and last still mosaic clearly show how the final cloud-to-ground discharge breaks up and becomes beaded as it decays. Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 in night scene mode.
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