jarlrmai
Senior Member.
I saw this video recently
Source: https://youtu.be/mmOfwFHBu_o?si=5LT6A3J-PdicUN5M
https://globalnews.ca/news/11272805/alberta-storm-lightning-ball-video-july/
Source: https://youtu.be/mmOfwFHBu_o?si=5LT6A3J-PdicUN5M
https://globalnews.ca/news/11272805/alberta-storm-lightning-ball-video-july/
External Quote:
An Alberta couple captured something on camera Wednesday evening that they can't explain. But they believe it could be a rare weather phenomenon called ball lightning.
"After a rather vicious lightning strike, we saw a ball of fire kind of … about 20 feet above the ground," Ed Pardy recalled. "And it kind of stayed there in a big round ball."
External Quote:
Global News showed the video to Frank Florian, senior manager of planetarium and space sciences at the TELUS World of Science in Edmonton.
He described it as "an incredible video" of something "very strange associated with severe weather conditions."
He said he believes it is possible the Pardys saw ball lightning.
"It could be ball lightning or it could be something that's more of an artifact of a lightning strike itself," he explained, adding that some scientists are researching the phenomenon of ball lightning and trying to recreate such events in laboratory settings.