50 Mile Long Plume Of Plasma Shoots From The Top Of Thunderstorm

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  1. John Brunner

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    From SpaceWeather.Com
    Issue Date: September 24, 2021

    Lightning on Earth is getting weirder and weirder. On the evening of Sept. 20th, Puerto Rican photographer Frankie Lucena pointed his Sony A7s camera at an offshore electrical storm. This is what he saw:

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    Indeed, this is one of the best-ever photos of a Gigantic Jet. Sometimes called "Earth's tallest lightning," because they reach the ionosphere more than 50 miles high, the towering forms were discovered near Taiwan and Puerto Rico in 2001-2002.

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    Well, that would definitely scare the bejeezits out of me if I had seen that.
     
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    I get a wonderful adrenaline rush watching storms and hearing the thunder that follows a good bolt or multiple bolts of lightning but I have to admit that if something like that appeared I just might have to change my drawers.
     
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    My goodness!:eek:
     
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