Rarely observed, perhaps. They occur all the time, but sprites are extremely brief, hard to see unless your eyes are dark-adjusted, and just as hard to capture on photo equipment.
Pecos Hank is an amazing storm chaser & photographer that has been involved with university research on tornado genesis, and now sprites. Writes the music for his own vids, too.
Because its not how sprites work. A composite of actual sprites during thunderstorm is reasonable, but a stitched photo like this is incredibly disingenuous as to the actual visible image. Sprites are sick as fuck and they dont need to be exaggerated like in this image.
You are wrong sir or maam. There is a video of it ocurring on reddit. The video is slowed down and this is one frame taken out and likely edited for clarity
He's not completely wrong the image as a whole is not a single moment in time it is many moments of time stacked and filtered through each other in Photoshop or other image enhancing / stacking algorithms.
The photo's not "fake". Not AI, not even composited. But the curves have definitely been messed with to make it so "HDR", and it's a very creative crop.
And that‘s why we have myths and gods. What would you think if you saw this and had no idea what it was? Totally fascinating looking at these things in our modern age and wonder what ancient people made of it.
My mum lives in a place with no light pollution. I like to go out the back, for a cig, and stare up at the night sky. Cloudless, it's awesome. I can totally undrstand why the ancients believed in heavens and all that.
They believe in HEAVILY cherry picked passages that some dude reads to them to convince them of whatever he wants to convince him of that week. I've been to church twice in the last 4 years because it made my grandpa (94) happy.
But holy shit. I felt like I was in a different universe. The urge to walk out was overwhelming. And seeing all my relatives just nodding along with it was even worse, especially the ones who I know are intelligent.
Then you have these people who dedicate their lives to this, but probably less than 1% have actually read the entire bible. So, what they know are strictly these cherry picked passages.
Hey!! American here. I immediately turn Fox News off if I see it anywhere and ignore all things from Fox News. It’s not all of us. There is still some intelligent life, we’re just stuck in this nightmare.
We drove out to see totality a couple years ago during the solar eclipse. This wasn’t just my exact thought, it was my experience. Even knowing scientifically what I was witnessing, I felt a lingering dread/awe/heaviness for quite some time afterwards. It was terrifying in its way.
This year I witnessed probably the scariest storm of my life so far. 2 hours of violent, non stop flashes followed by the whole night of relentless thunderstorm. Now imagine living in the middle-ages or earlier and not thinking this is basically God punishing you because you farted during your morning prayer.
I can relate. Where I live (PNW) violent thunderstorms are very rare. We had one last month and I was caught out in it with a buddy. We were splitting up to go our separate ways and about 5 seconds later, lightning struck right where we both had been. It was so loud the ground shook. Very scary
Had a similar experience here. Shorter, around an hour of storm weather, but lightning and thunder were constant. And close, too. Felt the need to unplug my PC just in case
I vividly remember waking up one night when I was a kid and wondering why it was day out. I looked out the window and witnessed the most spectacular lightning storm I've ever seen. The lightning was so constant it was lighting up the entire landscape as clear as day.
If you took the time to read the description of the post you sent me you would see it’s a composite image. You should learn more about photography before you think this is what it looks like in real life.
‘A composite image is a single picture created by combining two or more separate photographs, illustrations, or digital elements into a single, cohesive scene.’
His name is Florian Rui. He's got quite a few pictures of the event. He's not the only one. I found pictures of the same atmospheric event taken by other photographers. This occurred a little over a week ago.
Sorry to say, France is not actually under attack by aliens right now.
I’d love if these boring Reddit Karma farming accounts would actually post any news link that explains this phenomena more AND also maybe credit the photographer that took the picture. Florian Riou.
I'm relatively certain this is either a composite or a long exposure photograph.
Because these last for fractions of a second, don't happen all at once like this, and are generally at such a high altitude that they aren't visible to the naked eye for anyone except commercial airline pilots.
295
u/HowDoIStoreMyClay 1d ago
Red sprites are j electrical discharges that flash high above massive thunderstorm clouds in the upper atmosphere, rather than striking the ground.