STRANGE LIGHTNING STRIKES - Caught on Camera and explained

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  • Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 8 тыс.

  • @whoeverwhoever400
    @whoeverwhoever400 4 года назад +1193

    3:25, "for the best result, make sure you take the lens cap off."
    thank you for the tips. i was wondering why my photos always looked blank black.

  • @archiveseeker
    @archiveseeker 4 года назад +483

    When I was a kid, I was coming home with my Dad, and his friend. We were miles from town, but we saw the lightning hit the ground. We thought it hit our TV antenna, but it hit the neighbor's tree, splitting it in half. Almost 40 years later, I can still see that bolt!

    • @tommie42
      @tommie42 4 года назад +13

      Oof the 80s

    • @David-wi1ou
      @David-wi1ou 4 года назад +76

      must be weird to see the lightning in black and white

    • @voizzrb6944
      @voizzrb6944 4 года назад +19

      @@David-wi1ou lmao

    • @bandfromtheband9445
      @bandfromtheband9445 4 года назад +7

      That is an awesome memory! I wouldn't forget to see something like that, either.

    • @David-wi1ou
      @David-wi1ou 4 года назад +5

      @@voizzrb6944 whats funny

  • @ya.ghostie
    @ya.ghostie 4 года назад +4060

    Its 2am and I’m learning about lighting rather than sleeping

  • @RandomPerson-vq9kw
    @RandomPerson-vq9kw 3 года назад +72

    It's weird, I did not even realize there was different types of lightning. I have only ever seen cloud to ground lighting myself. So it's really cool to learn that mother nature can produce more than one kind!

  • @AlexandrBorschchev
    @AlexandrBorschchev 4 года назад +814

    Imagine seeing an “extremely rare” never seen before lightning strike
    without a camera

    • @ytakarhaegar6666
      @ytakarhaegar6666 3 года назад +30

      I was like i regret I didn’t record this
      But when i recorded nothing much happens

    • @jiiyjeiiy
      @jiiyjeiiy 3 года назад +6

      @@ytakarhaegar6666 I saw a VERY close one and it shot on the second I recorded so I didnt see it ;/

    • @Yoyo-l2u9s
      @Yoyo-l2u9s 3 года назад

      Oof

    • @Novaspeanutbrain2
      @Novaspeanutbrain2 3 года назад

      I would draw one

    • @grimesfamily4902
      @grimesfamily4902 3 года назад +1

      that would be an oof

  • @fakebently9322
    @fakebently9322 8 лет назад +448

    "for the best results make sure you take your lens cap off."

    • @harshanchan8520
      @harshanchan8520 7 лет назад +5

      Khalil Fauntleroy ikr😂😂😂😂

    • @awesome_gamer_7757
      @awesome_gamer_7757 7 лет назад +3

      Khalil Fauntleroy hahahahahaha

    • @baristunc8532
      @baristunc8532 7 лет назад

      Ruby a lens cap is this front thing in the camera before recording

    • @wonderingaround945
      @wonderingaround945 6 лет назад +5

      Hey, he did that just for the stupid people.

    • @navyntune8158
      @navyntune8158 5 лет назад

      @@baristunc8532 oh my bubble blower I'm gonna eat this green gumdrop it's I found it on the ground and I'm sure it's okay

  • @lalo8555
    @lalo8555 4 года назад +526

    2:09 I never related so much to lightning before

  • @DaveDurkee
    @DaveDurkee 3 года назад +38

    Speaking of Ball lightning that you mention at the end, I have witnessed it once. I was pretty young, but i remember a powerful electrical storm passing through the area, and being a young kid, it was a little scary. It was night and I was supposed to be in bed, but couldn't sleep, so i was peeking out my window, and saw the glowing orb just floating slowly in the air until it made contact with a telephone pole in the corner of the backyard, and released a bright flash, the loudest crack of thunder Ive ever heard. And of course it knocked out the transformer on the pole and killed power to that little part of our neighborhood. Was in Spokane, WA. in the mid 80's.

  • @kingbatcom4960
    @kingbatcom4960 7 лет назад +5382

    I hate to say it but...
    This video was shocking

  • @intergalactic2
    @intergalactic2 6 лет назад +1320

    Thor stop doing it, we are scared!

  • @cashewboi8567
    @cashewboi8567 8 лет назад +2574

    It's confirmed, Bigfoot can conduct lightning

  • @chrisfree8309
    @chrisfree8309 3 года назад +22

    A lot of people have seen ball lighting, but it's still extremely rare. I knew a retired airlines pilot who said that it formed on the nose of the airplane and slowly move down the inside all the way to the back. It's probably come complicated form of static electricity.

  • @darknight8778
    @darknight8778 7 лет назад +504

    Lightning is beautiful and scary

    • @stefaninfinit4259
      @stefaninfinit4259 6 лет назад

      dark night 6yx

    • @yanetfortier2076
      @yanetfortier2076 6 лет назад +2

      NO LO PUEDE CREER😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

    • @osgaming3643
      @osgaming3643 6 лет назад +1

      Are you mad dark night when anyone Disrespects ALLAH then he get mad and he send lightning

    • @Cqveragegossip
      @Cqveragegossip 6 лет назад +1

      Mostly lighting is scary for some peeps but me I’m calm because it strikes our house all the time my bother gets scared but my sis and I keep him calm. Me during a storm 😊 my sister during a storm 🎧😎 my bother during a storm ☹️

    • @mosharrofhoque236
      @mosharrofhoque236 6 лет назад

      Clash Master I asked my mosque teacher he said on days Allah talks with his angels shaytan tries to listen to the conversation but there are some other angels guarding and when they find or see shaytan they throw lighting at shaytan

  • @zojax1125
    @zojax1125 3 года назад +51

    0:56 Intracloud lightning is so beautiful😍

  • @vendexx7952
    @vendexx7952 5 лет назад +1173

    Who else just woke up and got bored and clicked on this
    Wtf why did I get so many likes on this, but thank you 🥺😊❤️❤️

  • @amyhammack4
    @amyhammack4 Год назад +28

    Hank, ball lightning tortured me when I was 3 and 4. My parents live in a very old house and it had a tree scraping the wire that connected the house to the power lines. There were many huge storms in the summer and one night something glowing was rolling around the metal frame on my canopy bed. I was terrified. Then one night I was in the bath and one of those ball things came out of the bathroom light fixture and went into the hallway phone, killing it. My dad saw it too. I think a few more floated around my room and I ran screaming into my parents room. Eventually they cut the tree and it stopped. I had nightmares about the things attacking me for like a year.

    • @Clavichordist
      @Clavichordist Год назад +7

      My great grandparents, grandparents, my mom, and aunt witnessed ball lighting "float" as you said right through their house. My great grandmother had a small cottage and all were staying there for the summer. One extremely hot summer day, a thunderstorm came in off the water as they usually did and while all were sitting in the living room, one of those ball things went in the front door and out the back.
      This wasn't a one person saw it because everyone recounted the same story with absolute consistency right up until they all passed away including my mom who passed in 2018. For years afterwards, my great grandmother would lock the doors, pull the shades, and sit in a corner in the dark and wait out a storm as it passed by.

    • @BritishMoron420
      @BritishMoron420 Год назад

      I have nightmares about that a 1 meter sized ball lightning will come into my house and push me into a corner... And then I wake up at 1am and don't get enough sleep.

    • @BritishMoron420
      @BritishMoron420 Год назад

      (Side note) One time my school got hit by a lightning strike and all power went out for like 5-10 seconds. There wasn't ball lightning but everyone freaked out except me and the teacher.

  • @bingsuke3072
    @bingsuke3072 5 лет назад +598

    2015: Nope
    2016: Nah
    2017: Nope
    2018: Nope
    2019: Perfect

    • @cobus81
      @cobus81 5 лет назад +1

      manuel garcia It’s in 2017. Not on 2017

    • @dylanchristman978
      @dylanchristman978 5 лет назад +2

      @@cobus81 I mean who cares

    • @cobus81
      @cobus81 5 лет назад +2

      Dylan Christman I do

    • @cobus81
      @cobus81 5 лет назад +1

      manuel garcia Am I a Mr? No, but thanks smartass

    • @cobus81
      @cobus81 5 лет назад +1

      Dylan Frost Who?

  • @helidodge
    @helidodge 8 лет назад +81

    Your weather videos should be used for elementary school science classes. You are a great teacher. I think kids would really enjoy and thereby learn well from your content.

    • @sonsybaton925
      @sonsybaton925 6 лет назад +2

      Heli-dodge I'll second that.

    • @localmetalhead3483
      @localmetalhead3483 6 лет назад +1

      Heli-dodge pfft, he said lightning comes from the sky, it comes from the ground

  • @melalien333
    @melalien333 6 лет назад +349

    "lonely upward streamers failing to make a connection" -thats me

    • @echoedinnocence
      @echoedinnocence 5 лет назад +3

      😭😭😭

    • @echoedinnocence
      @echoedinnocence 5 лет назад +5

      I feel this comment so hard...

    • @cat2.096
      @cat2.096 5 лет назад +6

      Well because yours is so damn tiny
      No offense. No pun. No drama.

    • @tonywecordoba1591
      @tonywecordoba1591 5 лет назад +1

      e UFsfirisoworitioooriueylhgiro ruryeiwlsosierlosoeiiryryrkosiriri

    • @carlgustov7728
      @carlgustov7728 5 лет назад

      Build a bridge and get the f*** over it.

  • @kingwillthe2nd821
    @kingwillthe2nd821 3 года назад +200

    I believe I saw ball lightning once (Quite a while after I saw this video too).
    I went for a walk right before this massive storm entered my town, I was constantly looking up at the clouds to see if the lightning was getting closer, which it was, so I kept a reasonable pace (basically jogging). I quickly looked up to check the sky, when I noticed a small glowing ball drop straight out of the clouds, and hit the ground a block away from me. It didn’t make a sound when it hit.
    At that point I thought ‘screw this!’ And I sprinted home.
    It’s safe to say I always check the weather radar if I think a storm is around now.
    (P.s. This was in Aus)

    • @NevTheDeranged
      @NevTheDeranged 2 года назад +7

      Maybe it was a bird that got hit and fell out of the sky?

    • @kingwillthe2nd821
      @kingwillthe2nd821 2 года назад +5

      @@NevTheDeranged well I didn’t see any lightning or birds in the area before the ball appeared. Although the ‘ball’ did fall out of the clouds, so it might be a possibility that something like that occurred in the clouds. (I will also note, I didn’t hear any thunder directly afterwards either).

    • @NevTheDeranged
      @NevTheDeranged 2 года назад +3

      @@kingwillthe2nd821 no way to know. More fun to assume it was ball lightning, though ;)

    • @nickthompson1812
      @nickthompson1812 2 года назад +11

      … aliens

    • @kingwillthe2nd821
      @kingwillthe2nd821 2 года назад +1

      @@NevTheDeranged Yeah for sure :)

  • @fortunecookie5459
    @fortunecookie5459 4 года назад +689

    A lightning is just a natural phenomen
    AOT Fan: No it's not

    • @river_riv._
      @river_riv._ 3 года назад +19

      Yes, it's not

    • @nano.vfx.on.tiktok
      @nano.vfx.on.tiktok 3 года назад +11

      Today its a thonderstorm i got a foto of one it loked like the sun

    • @zebolt2793
      @zebolt2793 3 года назад +8

      I just searched his up for sinbad but i am a aot fan

    • @ganyuily2207
      @ganyuily2207 3 года назад +5

      hello boy

    • @rylee7773
      @rylee7773 3 года назад +14

      found my people

  • @spacemanspiff6332
    @spacemanspiff6332 4 года назад +168

    I saw ball lightning when I was a little kid. It came out of a thunderhead several miles away and floated down diagonally toward where I was at. I was sitting on the steps of the front porch. All I could do is watch it coming. I feel like it woulda hit me if it didn't run into the across the street neighbor's transformer and explode.
    It was just a real bright "cool white" flickering ball. From beginning to end the whole thing must have lasted about 2 minutes. I hope I never forget that experience. Cause it sure was awesome.

    • @trystian8539
      @trystian8539 4 года назад +22

      literally millions of people have seen it, yet no one has image or video. So weird

    • @random_person2870
      @random_person2870 4 года назад +7

      @@trystian8539 I agree

    • @soundseeker63
      @soundseeker63 4 года назад +7

      @@trystian8539 I saw something similar once but tbh I though it was a UFO, it went upwards rather than down.

    • @MrTREEHUNTER22
      @MrTREEHUNTER22 4 года назад +4

      Holy shit I saw one too, so bizarre

    • @18BDM
      @18BDM 4 года назад +1

      Likewise, as a kid also!

  • @chiragagarwal5499
    @chiragagarwal5499 4 года назад +361

    0:57, alien's disco party under clouds!

    • @commentbandit5002
      @commentbandit5002 4 года назад +7

      'tis MY disco party :3

    • @jeffreym4370
      @jeffreym4370 4 года назад +3

      And you still believe in aliens? 😂🤣PLEASE! Stop watching star wars and star streak please for you own good🤝🏻that's if you want to wrought up mentally

    • @chiragagarwal5499
      @chiragagarwal5499 4 года назад +7

      @@jeffreym4370 lmao! I had never watched Star War's single episode. But still, I feel Aliens exist. Though it's just a belief , like many feel people travel Heaven or Hell after Death. That's just a natural belief. Although I didn't connect the situation with this video. It was just a joke actually. 😁

    • @TheDeathChamber10
      @TheDeathChamber10 4 года назад +3

      JEFFREY M have you heard of the area 51 raid idiot

    • @fairyknow5598
      @fairyknow5598 4 года назад +3

      the alien's do be hitting those beats 🤩🤩

  • @jebmccandless6122
    @jebmccandless6122 2 года назад +13

    In high school my friend and I would chase storms up in Montana. One of the greatest things we ever saw was gigantic symmetrical lightning. Like a Rorschach test kind of thing. It wasn’t just once either but many strikes that had a mirror image in that storm. It was so intense and beautiful, I will never forget it. I’ve tried looking it up multiple times over the years and have never been able to find anything about it. Just a once in a lifetime kind of thing, I guess. Has anyone else experienced this?

  • @flatty.kawa_13
    @flatty.kawa_13 5 лет назад +520

    My favorite part was the lightning 🌩

  • @TheAutomotiveFeed
    @TheAutomotiveFeed 6 лет назад +1367

    THIS IS THE BEST SIDE OF RUclips

  • @53n47
    @53n47 4 года назад +139

    1:49 Imagine getting hit directly by that 0_0

    • @munchies08
      @munchies08 4 года назад +17

      You won't be alive anymore

    • @2miligrams
      @2miligrams 4 года назад +3

      you would have on the tree to get hit but near it would give burns instantly

    • @nigelmcgarrell6964
      @nigelmcgarrell6964 4 года назад +4

      I almost got hit from lightening when I was 7 or 8 I'm 10

    • @TheDiddster
      @TheDiddster 4 года назад

      J8bu8b7y6y6y6y6ub7ub7ubj7bu7b7u7u5rx4djubbathehutjsjsisjejdxhjdhe to vokwfywo3bfvuwo4bx8wmfb

    • @stubbydinglbutt7682
      @stubbydinglbutt7682 4 года назад +4

      You’d turn into a Titan

  • @LegendYT1
    @LegendYT1 3 года назад +25

    When I was like 8, I was looking outside during a storm and saw ball lightning. I haven’t seen it since, and I’ve lived in the really intense stuff in north Texas. So I can say that it is real. Just EXTREMELY rare

    • @jeannecamara931
      @jeannecamara931 3 года назад

      Lol 😂

    • @zeldapinwheel7043
      @zeldapinwheel7043 3 года назад +2

      I think Ive seen it once, it was pretty eerie. I was looking out the window at night, and this blue ball of flickering light passed by. I assumed it was ball lightning, what else could it possibly have been?

  • @jovannilla
    @jovannilla 4 года назад +162

    1:22 That lightning bolt in the middle. The other two bolts must be like, "Bro, do you even know how to lightning?"

    • @alexplays6582
      @alexplays6582 3 года назад +4

      yea ikr!

    • @miyukiteishi9051
      @miyukiteishi9051 3 года назад +5

      Middle lightning bolt: "Fuuuuuutureeeeeee Fuuuuuuuuutureeeeeeeee!" (Squidward)

    • @sweetpotato1636
      @sweetpotato1636 3 года назад +17

      Middle lightning: Sorry it's my first day

    • @sumanlata9384
      @sumanlata9384 3 года назад

      Kunal. Sahu

    • @sutil5078
      @sutil5078 3 года назад

      lightning do not speak sorry...

  • @tranquilstar7540
    @tranquilstar7540 5 лет назад +216

    yall saying thor and putting on SHOCKING puns..
    but yall havent heard of someone becoming a titan?

  • @matchadonut_YT
    @matchadonut_YT 5 лет назад +257

    Let's just say, "Although lightning may seem 'beautiful to some people, its effects are dangerous and SHOCKING."
    Pun very much intended

  • @SomeoneCommenting
    @SomeoneCommenting 3 года назад +24

    3:29 this is a cool technique to get those. I guess that they'll look better if the motion is done automatically with some motor to have a smooth uniform turn.

  • @bethnetic6157
    @bethnetic6157 7 лет назад +326

    To me lightning is not even scary. I think it's pretty cool and epic

  • @ibrown3KC
    @ibrown3KC 3 года назад +45

    I've been a lonely upward streamer failing to make connections all my life!

  • @kylesnider1784
    @kylesnider1784 5 лет назад +155

    99% of comments: Something to do with the word Shocking or a Thanos/Thor reference.
    1% of comments: anything other than the word "Shocking or Thanos/Thor.

  • @tonymobley4156
    @tonymobley4156 3 года назад +49

    I absolutely love this channel. I did a report on tornados when I was in the 7th grade. I’m now 68 so that was almost before electricity was discovered. Haha. Your variety of information, calm demeanor and wicked sense of humor is unmatched by any other doing this type of work. I watched others but often interpersonal strife was too distracting. (TIV) And another was pretty good but I couldn’t take the screaming’Back Up’ when the driver was doing that already. (Dominator) I know I didn’t give enough clues for identifying some of those others but I’m just mean like that. 🤣😇
    Please keep up your terrific work. You are very much appreciated!!

    • @lusiamartins4874
      @lusiamartins4874 2 года назад

      DgzfdccgxhscfczcxdNãoPodeNãoPodePodeEvmgglighcfkhsalmsmudgzmddzgmc

    • @michaelnolan7724
      @michaelnolan7724 2 года назад

      go away 😉😉

    • @djinn_tseng
      @djinn_tseng Год назад

      @@michaelnolan7724how could this comment possibly need to have been edited?

  • @squashhead9180
    @squashhead9180 5 лет назад +294

    3:25 laughed harder than I should have

    • @Lucas.268
      @Lucas.268 4 года назад +7

      SquashHead lol

    • @s.a.s778
      @s.a.s778 4 года назад +3

      🤣 make sure the lens cap off🤣

    • @ItshimTheBeyBoy
      @ItshimTheBeyBoy 4 года назад +4

      You shoulden laugh. lightning is serious Do you want to get hurt by lightning.

    • @Lucas.268
      @Lucas.268 4 года назад +3

      @@ItshimTheBeyBoy its a joke bru

    • @arnoldotrejo5178
      @arnoldotrejo5178 3 года назад +1

      Lightning is bad you can get killed from lightning

  • @vmnclr
    @vmnclr 6 лет назад +163

    The ground to cloud lightning looks like a time lapse of a tree growing.

    • @patrykwlodarz
      @patrykwlodarz 5 лет назад

      or like a timelapse of a lightning tree growing XD

    • @elainedickson9447
      @elainedickson9447 5 лет назад

      @@patrykwlodarz yes that's a better way to put it

  • @TheRealMake-Make
    @TheRealMake-Make 9 лет назад +36

    I saw ball lightning for the first time last year. I was filming a thunderstorm and it looked like the best of it was over, so of course I stopped the camera. No more than five minutes later, my brother and I watched as a bright ball--maybe the size of a beach ball or as small as a baseball--floated nearby. It was hard to tell size and distance because it was so bright. I was sort of paralyzed, awestruck. The thing blew up just like lightning after maybe ten or fifteen seconds existing as an orb. I'm absolutely pissed that I stopped the camera--the ball would have been visible right in its path. Ugh. That wasn't the only missed opportunity. I also missed lightning striking a barn and setting it on fire. Really, I've learned my lesson. Don't stop recording until the sky is blue.
    Excellent video as always, Hank. My favorite storm chaser/snake handler.

    • @PecosHank
      @PecosHank  9 лет назад +5

      +Make-Make Maybe one of these days I'll get to see it... and even better, record it. Thanks for the story dude!

    • @OnlyZunkin
      @OnlyZunkin 9 лет назад +3

      +Pecos Hank
      I've scoured a variety of sources and the only credible footage I have ever found of ball lighting is described here. At one point I found the original paper but have since lost the link. This the best I can find currently.
      medium.com/looking-up/ball-lightning-b594b6ffea37#.bj476lkr6
      It was incidentally captured by a lightning research team that was studying normal lightning.

    • @travisthornton7614
      @travisthornton7614 9 лет назад

      Melting Sky thank you for the link.

  • @traceyalex1722
    @traceyalex1722 Год назад +1

    Thank you for describing "chain" lightning.😀 I only ever saw it once, many years ago, and I didn't know the name for it. A strangely slow moving lightning bolt struck the ground less than a mile away and seemed to break up into a necklace of glowing spheres which then faded out quickly but individually. The last few seemed to be drifting with the wind. The accompanying thunderclap rattled the house windows behind me. It was just so beautiful and awesome. (I'm not a storm chaser, but I really enjoy watching them.)

  • @blowjays1358
    @blowjays1358 8 лет назад +358

    4:15 Predicting the death of Harambe in 2015. My hero.

    • @light6773
      @light6773 7 лет назад +3

      Blowjays he died in 2016

    • @Squaredy
      @Squaredy 7 лет назад +1

      he said it was like a theory IDIOT

    • @drewber.t
      @drewber.t 7 лет назад +4

      He meant that he predicted the death of Harambe in 2015. He never proclaimed Harambe died in 2015.

    • @ThomasBob
      @ThomasBob 7 лет назад +4

      Elijah TheKing I like how you don't get what a joke is.

    • @Pyron5hadow
      @Pyron5hadow 7 лет назад

      Blowjays Who is Harambe?

  • @Esso_Films
    @Esso_Films 4 года назад +230

    U forgot the lighting when someone turns into a titan

    • @pardonbeach5425
      @pardonbeach5425 4 года назад +7

      lol I was thinking the same

    • @Philippine_Navyist16
      @Philippine_Navyist16 4 года назад +5

      probably there is a 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.1 chance

    • @Daniel-ri1zs
      @Daniel-ri1zs 3 года назад +7

      @@Philippine_Navyist16 wait u said 00000000000000000000.1 chance.. but theres a one..

    • @willuptop9138
      @willuptop9138 3 года назад +3

      And also the occasional nuclear explosion with the lightning

    • @jrlsky
      @jrlsky 3 года назад +2

      @@Philippine_Navyist16
      ,!,!?!,!

  • @alexangle1820
    @alexangle1820 6 лет назад +363

    50%no this is fake it has to be!
    20% this is so creepy and scary
    1% (me) THIS IS AMAZING!!

  • @nonsensical_nova
    @nonsensical_nova Год назад +1

    Before I never knew anything about lightning but after watching this video I learned so much from it! I didn’t even know what chain lightning was until I saw this! It’s still good to rewatch this memory of a video

  • @katapet6768
    @katapet6768 8 лет назад +642

    A lightning orb flew threw my house before in Australia it destroyed the window

    • @youcansave15ormoreoncarins75
      @youcansave15ormoreoncarins75 8 лет назад +23

      ball lightning is more of a property destroyer

    • @agentfungus9742
      @agentfungus9742 8 лет назад +84

      I had a weird experience with ball lightning in the 1970s. I was at the dining room table at 2AM doing homework. All of a sudden, a intensely bright glowing ball about the size of a soccer ball floated about 6" above the floor in the kitchen. It made a quiet sizzling sound. I stared at it. I had read about ball lightning, but all I could do when I actually saw it was stare with my mind a complete blank. It exploded with a deafening booming pop, like a transformer box exploding. The whole experience was only a second or two. No property damage. My sister, who had been sleeping, ran downstairs thinking something had exploded. When I told her what I had seen, she was pissed that she had missed it.
      Every other person who describes their experience with ball lightning sounds very similar to mine.

    • @sandrajohnson9629
      @sandrajohnson9629 8 лет назад +3

      cool

    • @storm3698
      @storm3698 8 лет назад +34

      lucky you weren't killed. It has been known to kill. My brother believes he may have seen it travelling through the sky.

    • @agentfungus9742
      @agentfungus9742 8 лет назад +30

      storm3698 : Dang. Killed by ball lightning. Then I wouldn't have had to do homework anymore.

  • @92Jdmsupra
    @92Jdmsupra 5 лет назад +205

    Who's here after watching slo-mo guys?

  • @tian6124
    @tian6124 5 лет назад +78

    Pikachu use thunder strike
    "Super Effective"
    Your enemy is paralyzed it can't move

    • @fever1
      @fever1 5 лет назад +2

      I’m pretty sure my opponent is *dead*

    • @DonVito703
      @DonVito703 4 года назад

      *nani*

    • @aaztha415
      @aaztha415 4 года назад +1

      omae wa......

    • @przemekgoti5864
      @przemekgoti5864 4 года назад +1

      @@aaztha415 Mou shindeiru

    • @cubzyt9091
      @cubzyt9091 4 года назад

      Przemek Goti Nani

  • @llamadeus11
    @llamadeus11 10 месяцев назад +1

    The strangest lightning I've seen was actually in western NY. We were in the hills and a microburst took out our tent, luckily my fam also had a camper nearby. We decided to sit in the car and watch the show. We pulled up to a spot where we could see out over a few hilltops. The magic moment was when about 5 bolts crawled across the cloud base towards eachother. They joined together and formed a huge blue-white bolt that hit the hilltop directly across from us! It was blinding and the crack made our hair stand on end. I was surprised we didn't see something catch fire! We went back in the morning to see if we could spot where it hit but sadly saw nothing. Never have I seen one like it before or since!

  • @depressedthoughts
    @depressedthoughts 5 лет назад +146

    Me: god give me a sign
    God: 👌
    Me:🤔

    • @icte3335
      @icte3335 5 лет назад +8

      You: 🤔
      Me: 😂
      ✋🏻👕👌🏻
      👖

    • @notyuiitscas7502
      @notyuiitscas7502 4 года назад +2

      Eat my food 😷

    • @sincerelyhenry.9585
      @sincerelyhenry.9585 4 года назад

      Yui Avery Hondrade no.

    • @vminisfuckingreal998
      @vminisfuckingreal998 4 года назад

      gottem

    • @SC-cb2pg
      @SC-cb2pg 4 года назад

      depressed thoughts I doubt God gave you that sign being that it represents 666. That is why Hollywood and the music industry makes that all the time. Just sayin. I’m sure you didn’t know though.

  • @teamtundra2619
    @teamtundra2619 6 лет назад +37

    Lightning is beautiful
    Most ppl are afraid of it but I find it fascinating

    • @jacob128gd5
      @jacob128gd5 5 лет назад +7

      Team Tundra 2 2 seconds later you get struck

    • @skewter2487
      @skewter2487 5 лет назад

      Same

    • @relena29
      @relena29 5 лет назад

      Big chugis

    • @SirKolass
      @SirKolass 5 лет назад

      Have one of those falling close to you and we'll see if you won't be afraid lol

    • @djmisunderstood1047
      @djmisunderstood1047 5 лет назад

      True my mum said its beautiful to watch when your away from it but don't get to close to the lightning it can hurt you badly!

  • @sophietao4905
    @sophietao4905 5 лет назад +18

    lightning may be dangerous, but it will never not be beautiful

    • @SirKolass
      @SirKolass 5 лет назад

      @@chrystaldowns688 I think you may have the cancer

    • @oikawahidaichi8204
      @oikawahidaichi8204 4 года назад

      I have the corona virus. And hope to infect everyone with it

  • @jonasbeadle975
    @jonasbeadle975 2 года назад +1

    About a month ago, Los Angeles, the city I live in, experienced a rare severe thunderstorm with an epic lightning show. There was constant cloud to ground lightning with two or three anvil crawlers. The storm caught several people off guard with a sudden burst of heavy rain and pea sized hail.

  • @cmarshall324
    @cmarshall324 4 года назад +55

    1:13
    Hank: During a lightning storm you don't wanna be the tallest thing standing around.
    Me: MAH SHORT ASS SELF IS SAFE--
    Hank: But that doesn't mean your safe if your the shortest
    Me: *FUUUUUUUU--*

    • @plls2880
      @plls2880 4 года назад +4

      Me at that exact moment.

    • @chado3000
      @chado3000 4 года назад +4

      At least you won't bump your head on shit trying to get away..

    • @cmarshall324
      @cmarshall324 4 года назад +2

      @@chado3000 lol that's true. All I'm gonna do is fall 🤣

    • @fenway4277
      @fenway4277 3 года назад

      🤣

  • @peterbucek2136
    @peterbucek2136 8 лет назад +33

    When I was young, a ball lightning went into our house through the window and bounced around in the kitchen. I am not even kidding, it was horrifying!

    • @Ayayron_e3
      @Ayayron_e3 8 лет назад +12

      +Peter Bucek hadouken!

    • @travismcvey
      @travismcvey 8 лет назад +2

      When I was a kid I'm almost positive that I saw ball lighting. All I can remember is a glowing orb above the apartment across the street from ours.

    • @Ayayron_e3
      @Ayayron_e3 8 лет назад

      Travis McVay could it maybe have been a reflection of some sort?

    • @peterbucek2136
      @peterbucek2136 8 лет назад

      +aaron brooks Shut up sceptic!

    • @Ayayron_e3
      @Ayayron_e3 8 лет назад +1

      Peter Bucek nice way to voice an opinion.

  • @user-jc2jp7rd9f
    @user-jc2jp7rd9f 7 лет назад +84

    I almost got struck by lightning...
    *T W I C E*

  • @Chris.Davies
    @Chris.Davies Год назад +1

    I have seen ball lightning. It was around 1.5 metres across, and so bright we could not look at it without squinting and covering our eyes. I was driving down the side of a shallow and narrow valley, on the right hand wall of the valley, about half way up the slope. The road was flat and level. We were returning from a day of skiing. It was dusky and starting to get dark at the time.
    The ball appeared from nowhere roughly in the middle of the valley about 50 metres ahead of the old '72 Landcruiser and maybe 70 metres left and at roughly the same altitude. It was moving away from us slowly but in the same direction, and so I chased it. I estimate it was doing around 70mph up the valley. It held a straight path and altitude from our perspective, and it lasted about 15 seconds, although it felt longer.
    When it ended, it simply winked out of existence, just like a normal lightning bolt, leaving us four guys with some heavy streaks in our vision. One of the guys thought it was an alien craft/UFO, but I was quick to disabuse him of that notion.
    It was a pretty freaky experience though, and I'll never forget it.
    Two Thumbs up - Would experience again!
    Edit: All four of us discussed our shared experience extensively on the hour-long trip home, and we all agreed that we saw the same thing, as we described it to each other repeatedly. This was in about 1985 or so. Long before cameras became ubiquitous. It looked blue white. Similar in colour to an arc welding plasma but it was steadier in brightness.

  • @youlookridiculous8617
    @youlookridiculous8617 3 года назад +152

    01:44 ereh turned into a titan

    • @questaa18
      @questaa18 3 года назад +2

      THIS IS NOT ANIME WTF

    • @questaa18
      @questaa18 3 года назад +1

      Aotis

    • @katicahancae5568
      @katicahancae5568 3 года назад +6

      @@questaa18 Who cares anime is the best

    • @questaa18
      @questaa18 3 года назад +2

      @@katicahancae5568 its different between irl and animes

    • @Inkxo3D
      @Inkxo3D 3 года назад +4

      @egg no shit

  • @AvaLovesCats222
    @AvaLovesCats222 4 года назад +18

    Lightning scares me so much I dont know why I decided to watch this

  • @9seo1
    @9seo1 3 года назад +15

    i saw ball lightning one time when i was younger. i was staying at my grandparents' house in pennsylvania and we were watching tv in the living room during a storm. we heard the loudest sound i've ever heard and jumped up to look out the window. a ball of what looked like the sun was rolling down the metal handrail on the stairs outside. it was loud and bright and quite terrifying. you could feel the static in the air for a few moments before it dissipated. it was absolutely insane, and i don't think i'll ever experience something like it again.

    • @JerryDodge
      @JerryDodge 3 года назад +1

      I think what you saw was simply lightning striking your house. That "ball" effect was most likely seeing spikes of energy moving along the path.

    • @cwavt8849
      @cwavt8849 3 года назад +4

      Because you didn't catch it on film, no one will ever believe you. But, I do. My father, now dead, saw it once, as a child. My father was a very devout Christian. He was also a wonderful story teller, part of the oral tradition of the poor folk of the depression. He would regal us with stories of the people and times of his youth spent struggling to survive during the great depression. He said, once when he was very young and his parents were share croppers, a very bad storm came through their settlement. They had no electricity, so, after night fell, the entire country side was dark except for the lightning strikes. The family had gotten up and gone to the windows as the storm was so intense. One of the strikes was right at a fence line close to the house. After the initial strike, the whole family watched in amazement as a large ball of light then traveled down the length of the barbed wire until it reached a corner post then disappeared. He was about 6 or 7. Until he died, at 87, he never forgot the sight, nor did his siblings. Nor did any of them ever see it repeated. His family numbered 11 at the time and all the kids his age and up told the exact same thing. The two younger ones didn't remember the incident as one was only 4 and the other a toddler. I believe you.

    • @davidroyer5049
      @davidroyer5049 3 года назад

      @@cwavt8849 that is a great story!
      "Ball lightning" has been baffling scientists for hundreds of years; it isn't that scientists believe that "ball lightning" doesn't exist, instead, the problem with ball lightning comes down to the old scientific adage
      "if you can't measure it, you don't know what it is".

    • @MenkeriosAndemicael
      @MenkeriosAndemicael 3 года назад

      @@cwavt8849 you should start a you tube channel, I'd subscribe to hear more of their memories.

    • @ferocient
      @ferocient 3 года назад +1

      My own family has a similar story. During the 1940s my mother's family had a farm in Washington state. Lightening struck an outdoor pipe that then apparently followed the course of the plumbing into the kitchen where my grandmother, mother and aunt were all working. A ball of lightening popped out of the faucet, bounced around the sink and then out into the middle of the kitchen and vanished. I asked my family members about this many times over the years and I am convinced that they saw what appeared to be ball lightening.

  • @xdevi7409
    @xdevi7409 3 года назад +22

    Don't worry.eren is just training.

  • @LGamerr
    @LGamerr 8 лет назад +81

    I have only seen one "ball lightning" in my life...I was standing in my backyard and it was about the size of the moon from earth...anyway. this ball thing forms in the sky, and then it disappears, and then 3 seconds later it reappears and surges across the sky. add that sighting to your book. (I don't know if that was ball lightning, but what I saw that night fits your description pretty well)

    • @Trip_Ts
      @Trip_Ts 8 лет назад

      yeah me too, but it went out of one cloud into the other.

    • @LGamerr
      @LGamerr 8 лет назад

      hmm

    • @Aulon
      @Aulon 8 лет назад +1

      maybe someone failed to shoot a perfect kamehameha

    • @maxonwolf5841
      @maxonwolf5841 8 лет назад

      I saw a ball lightning at epcot because it's was a huge lighting storm nearby

    • @aidenhopper-pictureanimati9447
      @aidenhopper-pictureanimati9447 7 лет назад

      LGamerr ball lightning lasts for max 2 seconds

  • @lordsesshomaru8960
    @lordsesshomaru8960 4 года назад +55

    I've never seen lighting come up from the ground like that, & just when I thought it couldn't get more frightening.

    • @alluriant6951
      @alluriant6951 4 года назад +2

      rhyme Minister

    • @Seraphim4190
      @Seraphim4190 4 года назад +3

      Thunderbolt and lightning very, very frightening me.

    • @Philippine_Navyist16
      @Philippine_Navyist16 4 года назад +3

      g-c lightning is caused by electrical discharges from tall buildings if the storm has lots of -ions the electricity of the building ( +ions) will strike up into the air (elctrostatic will occur)

    • @lordsesshomaru8960
      @lordsesshomaru8960 4 года назад

      @@Philippine_Navyist16 That's alot of raw power to just suddenly strike from the surface.

  • @CloudsGirl7
    @CloudsGirl7 5 лет назад +72

    Earth: **does little lightning firecrackers**
    Saturn: "Hold my beer."
    But seriously... A very interesting video, and one hell of a collection of footage and stills. (Plus, that trick for catching the different flickers is a stroke of genius.) Don't forget those frightening "positive-charge" bolts, either - especially since they can create "sprites" in the upper-atmosphere. Though fat lot of good it does those of us who are on the ground and under said storms...

  • @esper86
    @esper86 2 года назад +12

    Hank I saw ball lightning a few weeks ago and it was like a vision from God. I could not believe my eyes! It definitely exists!! I just wish I had my camera!! ( Also saw some Red Sprites last year, which felt super alien)

    • @Wh1rl.p0ol
      @Wh1rl.p0ol Год назад +1

      I saw red sprites yesterday (not to be confused with red spirits)

    • @esper86
      @esper86 Год назад +1

      @@Wh1rl.p0ol nice! also not to be confused with Red Stripe, the Jamaican Lager Beer 😂🍻

  • @fernandodelgado5900
    @fernandodelgado5900 8 лет назад +8

    I'm glad that we have people like this guy on video for the world

  • @Noblereach36
    @Noblereach36 9 лет назад +103

    Any video from pecos Hank I'll watch, they're all good. :D

  • @deividasradziunas3696
    @deividasradziunas3696 4 года назад +215

    I died on 4:13. I haven't laughed like that in a long time.

    • @kelvisaisawesome
      @kelvisaisawesome 4 года назад +6

      Deividas Radžiūnas why were you laughing at 4:13?

    • @kelvisaisawesome
      @kelvisaisawesome 4 года назад +5

      Did you mean 3:23?

    • @phoenixpog3186
      @phoenixpog3186 4 года назад +5

      @@kelvisaisawesome it looks like a shadow of bigfoot

    • @donovanroundtree524
      @donovanroundtree524 4 года назад +2

      I guess lighting can strike more than twice

    • @aintthatbrax
      @aintthatbrax 4 года назад +4

      Bruh it's big foot getting blasted by goku how can you not laugh lmaoooo

  • @Im__A__Fan
    @Im__A__Fan 2 года назад +2

    I was at Bear Lake (Utah/Idaho) During a major thunderstorm. I was camping and had been hearing the lightning all day, but assumed it was moving away from us. When we got to the lake, I noticed there was a thunderstorm in Montpelier Idaho (13 miles from the lake) but didn't think much of it.
    The wind that day was incredible, the waves were about 5 ft tall at times. Eventually we decided we were done swimming and decided to head back to camp. As were leaving a couple high schoolers came and asked us for help since there car had died; and wanted us to jump it. We agreed and drove over to their car. As my friend is helping them jump it, I noticed it had started to lightly rain, and within mere seconds it was a complete downpour. My friend managed to jump their car (They were driving a sedan, we were driving an SUV), and got back in the car and was dripping wet. The rain was so heavy we feared it was going to break our window (These weren't small drops of rain, rather huge pieces that were painful when they hit you). We started driving away, with the sedan behind us; we were about to leave the beach when I noticed they got stuck in the sand and we had to drive back and help them once-again. They managed to get off the beach and drove away.
    We parked on the side of the road since visibility was near 0. I looked back at the beach and there was massive RV's stuck in the sand, and jet skis that had been abandoned being thrown around in the water. We were parked next to a bunch of powerlines, and I noticed blue plasma running up and down them, and a transformer which we had previously not noticed exploded just behind us. Everyone screamed bloody murder as we sped away. We got back to camp, being traumatized from the storm decided to leave early (We were only going to stay one more day anyway). That storm was the craziest weather I had ever been in, and we still joke about it saying: "Were never going back there again or Zeus is going to punish us!"

  • @yishaqdavid2029
    @yishaqdavid2029 8 лет назад +552

    LOL I love the photo of ball lightning.

  • @Mh-vi1gm
    @Mh-vi1gm 6 лет назад +91

    0:16 Thor is here

  • @JessicaZane4realz
    @JessicaZane4realz 8 лет назад +78

    I've seen Ball Lightning, in fact, I have several versions of it in my Magic: The Gathering collection.

  • @Ichneumonxx
    @Ichneumonxx 2 года назад +2

    I remember somewhere on TV (it was either Discovery or National Geographic, anyway something rather legit) they were doing an experiment to actually create ball lightning, and they kinda managed to do it - the discharge was little electric balls that rolled around the tray for a fraction of a second. So I think it is possible, it's just so rare that you can't really prepare yourself to photograph it.

  • @EdWatts
    @EdWatts 8 лет назад +104

    Hank, you have to be one of the "coolest" people on youtube. The Patterson film shot was just too funny! If you really are in Pecos, I would like to "do lunch" with you the next time I breeze through there.

    • @PecosHank
      @PecosHank  8 лет назад +12

      Howdy Ed. I earned the nickname "Pecos" because of my affiliation with tornadoes and rattlesnakes. Remember, Pecos Bill lassoed at tornado with a rattlesnake... And second my spending Summers in the Pecos River valley. I do pass through the town from time to time but nobody recognizes me. Happy Trails friend.

    • @nicholaswickman8236
      @nicholaswickman8236 8 лет назад +1

      EdWatts y

    • @sometimesigetanxiety2443
      @sometimesigetanxiety2443 7 лет назад +3

      KPH

    • @betsyburlingame2016
      @betsyburlingame2016 7 лет назад +6

      Pecos Hank lol I have been wondering how u got the name...snake/storm chaser that my friend is something you don't hear of often. love your vids and the way you explain the content.keep doin what u do the way u do

    • @roselove4109
      @roselove4109 7 лет назад +1

      EdWatts wa

  • @yourundercoverfbi3081
    @yourundercoverfbi3081 4 года назад +43

    0:41 thats like from a badass Sci-Fi movie

  • @jessbellis9510
    @jessbellis9510 6 лет назад +10

    Amazing and informative video! Really great footage - here in Perth we don't tend to get truly massive storms, and practically never get tornadoes. I've never seen upward lighting before.

  • @bobprickett2223
    @bobprickett2223 3 года назад +3

    A few years ago I was flying from Houston to Oklahoma City. We had to fly around a large storm system that put on quite a lightning show. A we descended on our approach to the airport I was watching several spectacular lightning strikes around a small town. One large strike produced what looked like a “smoke ring” of lightning that appeared to rise up from the point of the lightning strike. It was brief and looked like an effect I’ve seen in film of Van deGraf (?) generators of a donut shaped discharge. I have never seen anything like it before or since.

  • @rosh98
    @rosh98 4 года назад +11

    I died when he said the thing about having the lens cap off :'D Pinnacle of comedy but as a photographer I can relate so much :DDD

  • @elaryn
    @elaryn 7 лет назад +83

    Have you ever considered compiling an album of the music you use in your videos? Aside from the beautiful pictures, I really enjoy that music. Thanks. :-)

    • @PecosHank
      @PecosHank  7 лет назад +7

      Hey Elaine. Actually i have :D Got a couple new symphonic pieces rattling around in my head that i hope to record... Maybe release those with the others. Thanks!

    • @TheOhvon
      @TheOhvon 7 лет назад +1

      Elaine Gregory

    • @KingElvis130
      @KingElvis130 6 лет назад +1

      Pecos Hank &

  • @hungryfilms3707
    @hungryfilms3707 6 лет назад +71

    "You've been...
    THUNDER STRUCK!!!!"

  • @alfiefenton8179
    @alfiefenton8179 3 года назад +1

    i actually have seen ball lightning before, i was in the Dominican republic and a massive storm came over us, and i saw a ball of light hit the lake in front of us. i thought i made it up but now hearing that you have mentioned this its confirmed to me that i did see what i thought i saw.

  • @18436Melissa
    @18436Melissa 4 года назад +28

    1:43 when they connect....
    *electrostatic 1 billion volts discharge*

  • @mostwanted2kay
    @mostwanted2kay 4 года назад +5

    I love sitting with a hot cup of coffee, and watching lightnings strike

  • @mabelsham
    @mabelsham 4 года назад +7

    Those lightning strikes are almost giving a heart attack dude🥺

  • @Alaryicjude
    @Alaryicjude Год назад +1

    My grandmother told me that back in the 70's lightning hit her TV (prolly through the wires) in her house and a ball of "lightning" (plasma probably) came out of the TV and floated through the living room a bit and then dissipated. She says it was the scariest thing she'd ever experienced.

  • @wazzapgerald414
    @wazzapgerald414 5 лет назад +165

    Look’s like thor found noobmaster 69

  • @sierra3579
    @sierra3579 9 лет назад +9

    So freakin cool! I thought I knew a lot about severe storms. I've learned so much more from this channel.

  • @Calthecool
    @Calthecool 5 лет назад +15

    Nice video! Very informative.

  • @davidk7544
    @davidk7544 3 года назад

    i visited the house of someone who had a close-up and personal experience with ball lightning. She narrated it's formation,coming into her house off a metal-framed window, "rolling"off the sash and then rolled along the floor for quite a few feet leaving a scorched melted carpet trail. It then jumped towards an electric outlet and disappeared. The burn scars were certainly consistent with her account, and she was visibly shaken by the incident.

  • @jjimnz21
    @jjimnz21 5 лет назад +8

    A book said around a lightning bolt is 10000 times hotter than the sun

  • @shhrlsyfq9595
    @shhrlsyfq9595 7 лет назад +51

    how to be the flash
    1. catch the lightning
    2. now boom . you are now the flash

  • @redcrewmate3243
    @redcrewmate3243 4 года назад +202

    Lightning: "i will kill u"
    Earth: "no u"

  • @mcrazyweirdom5690
    @mcrazyweirdom5690 2 года назад

    Hank, I just wanted to let you know that I watch your educational and storm chasing videos to fall asleep.

  • @bradleychilds4387
    @bradleychilds4387 3 года назад +13

    Love it. Been interested in the weather since 1983

  • @tairikuokami
    @tairikuokami 8 лет назад +5

    Good luck taking shot of a ball lightning with a digital camera, it cripples electronics within the area, just like UFO.

  • @tommyredline6432
    @tommyredline6432 4 года назад +12

    I’ve legit seen ball lightning twice. Once when I was like... 8, and a couple years ago. It actually had a descending motion into the clouds. It was absolutely insane

  • @dubey_ji
    @dubey_ji 3 года назад +1

    Watched 10 videos of your back to back
    Love your content man
    You keep it interesting with visual and information and I really like your voice
    You're doing great work sir

  • @strokerace5468
    @strokerace5468 8 лет назад +26

    I think what sets you apart is you don't scream every cuss word in the book when you see a tornado or lightning.

  • @hackman669
    @hackman669 4 года назад +33

    This is when Thor and Zeus dance at a disco when the power goes into over drive.

  • @gus473
    @gus473 5 лет назад +28

    👍🤣 The plausible ball lightning photo! 😂😂🤣

  • @MmmHuggles
    @MmmHuggles 8 месяцев назад

    I've never witnessed it myself, but my mom swears she has seen ball lightning once. She said she was sitting on the couch in the living room of a house when she was a lot younger. The living room and dining room were basically one big room. The dining room had a patio sliding door. She said she watched what looked like a ball of light come through the patio door, across the dining room, and go into the kitchen which was out of her sight. She said it crackled too.