This guy should rename himself to a really cool sounding name like “The Web Almanac” alluding to his ability to accurately recount all the most historic weather events and go into detail about how various weather phenomenon is formed and the inner workings of them
One time I was camping when I was 6. I woke up at like 4 and I sat there for 20 minutes and was about to fall asleep until I saw a VERY bright fire ball in the sky. That was a once in a lifetime experience.
I saw a huge fireball meteor for the first time just a couple months ago... I was aurora hunting and looking eastward when it streaked across the sky in a downward motion. I was amazed and said "holy sht!!!" out loud to myself and my jaw dropped. I waited to hear a loud crash or splash of water (I'm near Lake Michigan) because it almost looked like a crashing plane... no noise. Nobody else around to witness it at 2-4am, and too fast for my camera.
@@Arcturusplanes I did try sending one of one that I saw, but youtube doesn't show comments with links in them, so I doubt they'd be able to share either
Thank you for making this year's before instead of days, I saw this was 2 days old and thought this was probably no good. I've been into this semi astronomy stuff for about 3 years now and when I get a video about big events it's usually only a couple days before it happens and I usually only get recommended it 3 or 4 days later.
I watched the 2001 meteor storm from the middle of a cornfield in upstate NY. I was laying in my lawn chair bundled up in sleeping bags in the bitter cold. At midnight I hadn't seen much so I went inside to warm up. When I went back out I immediately began seeing meteors. For the next 3 hours the sky was filled with thousands of blazing fireballs. I knew this incredible display was a once in a lifetime event. I feel very lucky to have witnessed it.
I was incredibly fortunate to see the 2001 meteor storm. Just incredible! I was on the Olympic Peninsula in WA, the wettest place in the continental US during their wettest month. But the skies were clear. About a meteor every second, with bursts of greater intensity. Awe inspiring. 2002 was pretty good too. This channel has become one of my favorites. Awesome content.
Look, I have to be one of your biggest fans. Im 38 and I live in a little town in Alabama about as far south as you can go before you hit the Gulf of Mexico, a town called Coden, Alabama. A very poor town. I'm just like you, I've always been a tornado freak, of course because of the movie twister but I'm also a HUGE fan of space. Honestly I still have a hard time wrapping my head around infinite space but I just want to say that you're freaking LOVE your channel and your wife is adorable! Keep on doing these awesome videos! We love you down here
When i was maybe 5 years old, on a road trip in Canada with my family, we camped one night in a playground. No tent just sleeping bags on a mat on the ground. Everyone else fell asleep but i was too cold to sleep so i lay there staring up at the stars. Suddenly every star in the sky was a shooting star and i watched in amazement until finally falling asleep. Never seen anything like it again but 32 years later it is still fresh in my mind.
I've been seeing tons of footage of fireballs lately from the Geminids this week. Super cool. The most meteors I've ever seen was in 2005-ish? It was the geminids also, and I counted 107 in one hour. It was the most spectacular meteor shower I've ever seen. I hope we can see a meteor storm soon!
In Dec 2017 I was on Big Thunder rollercoaster at Disneyworld and noticed the Geminids, that was so magical... first time I'd ever seen a meteor shower and now I look every December.
Thank you for covering this topic. I have often wondered about the 1833 "Night the stars fell" and if it was possible that it could happen again in my lifetime.
Awesome video, Jake! You are like a 4 year old in a candy store when you talk about this stuff - your glee and happiness at these phenomena is infectious as all heck! I saw the Perseids in 1979, I think it was, in my small Washington town at the time, and it was very cool. I'd love to witness a true meteor storm - that would be incredible!
I think you have solved a personal mystery. We bought our home in what was the edge of Austin in 2000. Within the next year or two we experienced an insane meteor shower just after returning home from live music. 3 and 4 trails at a time through the partial cloudy skies. I believe it was the mid November event in 2002 or 2001. I like the youngster in your story will never forget and hope to have the experience again someday. Thank you!
Yes! There was a storm in November of 2001! I woke every human I knew and we watched for several hours... can’t get my family to be interested in meteor showers since.
I counted aprox 12 huge slow meteors per second all going in the same direction all the way across the sky on November 17, 1998. It was early in the evening and wasn`t predicted. The Leonids peaked that night so I went out early to see if there were any because I had to be in bed by 10pm to work in Shreveport the next morning. Other than my friend and girlfriend I only met one other person who saw it.
New video hell yeah! Just yesterday, I was noticing that I had watched virtually all Swegle videos and I was disappointed that there weren’t more for me to watch.
I own night vision and am stunned by how common it is to see “shooting stars” when using night vision. It’s so rare with normal vision but nearly constant with night vision. I don’t know what state you’re in Swegle but if in/near STL then I’d be glad to let you use my setup and it is possible to record through a night vision device. May be worth buying your own! I can also give you info about that if interested.
@ They even make setups that allow night vision devices to attach on my telescope. Talk about “stellar!” The setup I use is a gen 3 white phosphor PVS-14 from Steele Industries. I attach it to a Team Wendy helmet with a Wilcox G24 mount and it allows me to walk around and observe the sky!
Yup... two events changed my life. 1965 Ikeya Seki lit up the DAYTIME sky like a big white cloud... Then, next winter, 1966, we were in Big Bear Lake. 7,000 feet perfectly clear night when WHAM! The black night sky turned on like a million floodlights... Trees and mountains were in the "daylight"... I was facing east...perfect, but it wouldn't have mattered... One could have played baseball it was so bright. 1st chance I could, I was at the famous Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC)... Names like Tomabaugh, Levy, Shoemaker, were walking around in Tshirts...(i bought a shirt every year for a couple dozen years.)... met a man the very next year that told me he was starting an optics Company...Al Nagler... really cool stuff...thank you for the memory lane...stroll...😂
You might appreciate this. The full story is very long, so I'll shorten it a bit. I was talking to my dad one night in November 1998 and was about to tell him about an amazing huge blue fireball I saw fall from the sky while driving home the night before. I'd never seen anything like it. This was a HUGE blue fireball that, from my perspective, fell straight down...AND AT THE VERY SAME MOMENT Aaron Neville was singing in my head (from the song Don't Take Away My Heaven) these words: "If the stars should all fall from the sky..." !!! Dad and I were talking about the Neville Brothers concert I had seen just before this event happened, and I hadn't yet mentioned the meteor. But as I opened my mouth to broach that subject, he interrupted me and said: "Oh, before I forget, there's supposed to be a meteor shower tonight." (!!!) AMAZED, I then proceeded to tell him about the huge blue fireball. Hours after talking to dad (around 2AM that night) I was driving towards my land in the country so I that could view the meteor shower....when suddenly, looking out the passenger window, I saw a huge blue fireball, even bigger than the one the night before, streaking along the horizon, parallel with my route and going the same direction I was....And I watched as it split into 3 equal-sized fireballs that continued across the sky in formation for a long distance, all leaving a vapor trail in the air! When I got to my property I sat there and watched one after another: some were deep blue, like those first two, while others were orange, red, turquoise....it was amazing. No simple, white meteors; all were large and colored! The very next year, 1999, I discovered Edgar Cayce - a modern-day prophet/seer - who stated that the Second Coming of Christ begins "in 1998, in the hearts and minds of men." And alongside many other things happening in my life, I knew that the Second Coming had been announced to me that night in 1998. And I would eventually discover that I am the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah - and one of the "two witnesses" of Revelation Chapter 11. Put on your seat belt! The wild and totally insane ride begins in January, as many already intuit from the political landscape. But ALL is GOD's plan. And the end of all this is "GOOD NEWS" for absolutely EVERYONE - not just so-called "believers," many of whom voted for the anti-Christ, unware! "Hear me now and believe me later," as I like to say.
I met people who witnessed the 1966 event. They said even if you opened your eyes for as short an interval as you could, you still saw far too many to count.
Great video!! I hope i see something this cool someday. Also I loved the photos, illustrations, video captures, and animations that showed the progress of technology through the years too. We appreciate how much work you do!!
i live in the uk - for the last 5 yeats, every time there's been a meteor shower i've heard about i've gone out to watch and every single time it's too cloudy to see anything. i guarantee that would happen in the event of a meteor storm
I saw the Leonids meteor storm in 2001,shortly after 911,it was like the best fireworks grand finale,totally silent, the sky had total saturation, several visible all the time. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and this year I got to see a meteor shower with northern lights in Sturgis at the Buffalo Chip!
I does enjoy astronomy events such as lunar eclipse and meteor showers more than spending hours to make a local weather disscusion for myself. Recently i saw some meteors during December Geminids, and almost fully documented Perseids a while ago. I even witnessed a meteorite falling upon the sky, somewhere around December-January last year. This video just brought back a lot of memories when i was still interested with astronomy. Btw thanks for the meteor storm expectations in 17:21, i will spend time to observe it and upload the results in my second channel in the future.
I remember I was watching the northern lights without realizing the persieds were going on in August and there was a very bright meteor that shot across the entire sky that was blue. A truely unforgettable shooting star to see.
There was an outburst shower in the late 90s... my sister woke me in the middle of the night and we climbed out onto the roof and watched. One of the only good memories i have of her 😅
So glad I took the time to stay up and witness Australia's recent metoer storm a year or so ago from mid west vic up our highest parts. Saw one every few seconds for patches through 2-3 hours. Looked fake to watch it was so amazing.
Love this content! Thanks for sharing. Love everything to do with weather including space weather. This past year, I got hooked on looking for the northern lights. A perk of living in Michigan for which I am grateful.
The most surreal time i ever experienced was on the day the Joplin tornado occurred. Except i live in a suburb just north of Minneapolis, MN. I was outside, it was sunny out but i could see a storm to the south, which i didn’t think anything of until it started to rain down small parts of houses all over the place. When it was done, there was a piece of people’s houses about every 5 feet apart as far as anyone could see. There were no sirens or storm warnings going on. It just happened there was a tornado going thru north Minneapolis that nobody knew about until it happened. Nothing on the TV. I was like “OMG, something really bad just happened somewhere…”
WOW! I live near Joplin and saw the damage the day after. Hard to believe it carried so much debris that far. I had an amazing Leonid meteor shower experience in 1998 that I posted on this video in reply to @markgoodley2450. It would be well worth your time to read.
I watched the '66 storm in the front yard of our home in Long Beach CA. It was amazing and I've never seen anything like it since. I keep watching, ya never know!
In summer of 1993 I was visiting family in a rural area. My cousin and I played outside until it was very dark when we noticed what looked like stars crashing into each other in the sky. We laid in the grass, watching the most magnificent event of our lives. I haven't had a single experience that has ever come close to that one.
This information gives us the opportunity to judge meteor showers the way people judge wine. "The 1899 Temple-Tuttle stream is a fine vintage, showing a nice radial curve and tends to be smoke-trail heavy. But my personal favorite is 1932, oh when those come around look out!"
Can you discuss next the super bright supernova (SN 1054) that occured on July of 1054 that mesmerized early civilizations around the globe both day and night? Btw love your all videos💗
A couple hours ago (11:30 pm - 12:20 AM) | was outside on the side of the road in cape cod Massachusetts, for almost an hour just staring at the sky well I was crying about shit and saw over a dozen shooting starts (Geminids I assume) it was amazing. It was almost back to back too. So it’s really awesome that you posted this today.
Currently outside in the night listening to your video and I’ve already seen 3 meteors in about 8 mins. I live out in the sticks so the sky is always bright with the stars, but the moon is shining bright so it’s making it a little harder to see. Hoping I see more tomorrow night. Thank you so much!!!! Posted this comment and not even 45 seconds later I see 5 more!
This video made me realize that one morning when I was in elementary school I heard the loudest noise I have ever heard in my life. It was like 6am and it woke me up and I genuinely thought something had exploded or that we were at war or something. That had to have been meteor thunder, it wasn't storming or anything and it was so early nobody would have seen it or even known. Insane.
this comment section genuinely makes me tear up a bit. i don’t think ill ever have the words but there’s really something magical about looking up and seeing these once in a lifetime showers/storms. i miss living out in the flat desert with little to no noise or light pollution. it makes even just one comet or asteroid or whatever other space junk burning up in our atmosphere shine so much brighter. really hope to catch one of these storms with a loved one or two :)
I love to go out and watch meteor showers. In 1998 I took the family to Nevada (Fernley, NV) to watch the Leonids. The skies were very dark and the meteors averaged about one a minute. But the meteors we saw were as bright as anything I have ever witnessed. They not only made hissing sounds, but some left long lasting trails that evolved into colorful ribbons in the sky. Consider I was just starting to wear hearing aids and I am re-green colorblind, but I heard and witnessed this event. I also observed the 2002 event from Arriba, CO and yes we did see 3000 meteors per hour. Not bright like the 1998 event but still amazing. Love this video.
Yes, the 1998 Leonids blew me away. Very long story that I posted in reply to @markgoodley2450 on this video, if you want to read it. Guaranteed worth your time.
When I was a young man I got to see a meteor storm. It wasn't quite the 150,000 an hour like you mentioned but it was every 1 to 2 seconds or so bright streaks across the sky. This would have been 25 or so years ago give or take. I saw on the news that it was predicted and a friend and I drove until we found high enough elevation to get out of low lying fog. It was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in my life.
My once in a lifetime was in 2004 in La. during the Leonid meteorite event. The skies never darkened for almost 3 hours, there was a constant flow of meteors some of which were so low, I could hear them going over.
Omg I think I saw this one as a kid! 16:26 I was in East Moline, too! I remember it looked like a chunk broke off when it "hit" the atmosphere! I still tell people about the metor!
I was just a kid in '01, but I'll remember that night for the rest of my life. My mom woke me up, and I remember the deep blue twilight glow and flickers of cool light streaming in through the bedroom window and dancing across the walls. My mom and I opened the window and stood with our heads turned to the zenith, and I remember feeling like I was witnessing magic...the heavens...love...god...or some other force too exhilarating to comprehend - but it firmly secured my love for, and lifelong interest in the cosmos, and the astronomical wonders and mysteries of the universe. After what felt like eons, I had to lay back in bed, but I remember laying there, looking out the window at the cascade of light as I drifted gently into sleep's embrace, thinking, "If ever there was a time to make a wish...". I can't recall what mine was, but something tells me it already came true... I was 6 years old. Old enough to appreciate the event and understand the beauty and significance of it, yet still young enough to succumb to awe and wonder, and for a couple hours, genuinely believe in magic, and behold it with my own wide eyes... Be it a spectacular aurora, a total solar eclipse, a monumental silent heat lightning storm, the rare fleeting pass of a brilliant comet, or watching the night sky's entire array of stars rain down and cast the eve in light, I never stopped keeping my sights on the heavens, and every once in a great blue while, I get to believe in a bit of celestial magic again, just as that smitten 6 year-old little boy did, on that cold November night, in the two-thousandth-and-first year...
Thanks for the video. I never could remember when it was, but my dad and I watched one of the showers that had to be in the 1990s early 2000s. They were non stop and sometimes several a second. Had to be hundreds a minute. Hope I get to see one of the outright storms in my lifetime. Took him and my mom to see the lost Total solar eclipse they loved it.
I wish I didn't have to wait so long until the next storm! That sounds amazing! Btw, can you make another video about clouds? I don't know how much more there is to cover, but I loved your rare clouds/natural phenomena videos so much! I had a book as a kid about wild/strange weather occurrences and I might need you to debunk all the weird raining frogs stories for me.
Only once or twice in my life, I've seen a shooting star. I also remember this one night, I was leaving church, and on our way home, my mom and dad and I saw a meteor fall into the fields next to us from a far distance. The second it was inches away from the ground, I thought I remembered seeing a green or a yellow.....maybe a white spark when It hit the ground.
I saw one of the ones between 1999 and 2001, and it was one of the craziest things I've ever seen. So many of them exploded into multiple meteors, and we heard well over a dozen over the course of the night - even hearing them from inside the house while we were heading to bed. It felt like the world might be ending.
When I was a little kid I was lucky enough to see an extremely rare slow fireball. I happened to look up at the right moment and we watched this crazy bright thing spitting out sparks slowly track across the sky for what seemed like many minutes but was probably more like 20 seconds. These slow bolides are so rare I have yet to see any footage of a similar one to this day. My father thought it had to be a plane going down and actually called the police about it, but we found out the next day it was indeed a meteor (and eventually a meteorite) that was seen in 9 states across the northeast US. Spectacular as that event was, I have always wanted to see a genuine meteor storm. The closest I have come was seeing several meteors in the sky at once, at least 3, followed by a few more in the space a few minutes. A momentary surge in a meteor shower, at best, but still cool. I ticked total eclipse off the list of things to see this year, and I've been chasing storms for a long time and have seen many tornadoes, but I'm still waiting on the meteor storm. Great topic for a video, though. Thanks for covering it.
You had my attention the entire video... fascinating stuff! A geologist named Randall Carlson has done lectures about the Draconid meteor shower and how the Great Chicago Fire and Great Peshtigo Fire (near Green Bay, WI) both occurred around Oct 7-9, 1871 during the Draconids. Other catastrophic fire events have occurred during the Draconids also, like the Great London fire of 1666 and the Hinckley, MN fire. He has very cool medieval accounts of meteor showers, testimonies of eyewitnesses describing fireballs descending from the sky, etc. Highly recommend, it's a fascinating rabbit hole.
That was so interesting! I knew about meteor showers, I even had the perfect viewpoint for decades - a beach chalet in the darkest county in certainly the U.K., possibly further. No electricity on the dunes means the sky is very black and the horizon is also visible over more than half the sky. Typically we’d be there during August and more than once I’d take a sleeping bag outside. All I ever did was fall asleep though 🙁 or else it would turn cloudy.
I've never heard of this? I was freaking out seeing all those drones, flying around the New Jersey shoreline the other day... and I'm a, Hazard Management Control Specialist in the mining industry. I'm not allowed to freak out. Paid to stay calm. I'd probably just friggin pass right out though, if I witnessed a Meteor Storm! Man I love your channel. ❤️
It was around 2001 or 2002 I forget... The Leonids, I was awake the whole night, taking pictures, my first and only meteor storm. Thousands per hour... Some of the meteors left glowing ion trails that were blown around by high altitude winds. Even driving home the next morning, after sunrise I could see meteors through the windshield of the car. Some of the meteors that night moved in pairs in parallel at the same moment, so perhaps a larger meteor that had broken up many eons ago and they traveled together through the atmosphere. It was such a treat
We saw a storm in the early 90’s in north Mississippi. Took us by surprise. We had heard of a shower so we were on the roof but then the whole sky was streaking and it lasted for quite a bit. Been wanting to see another event like that for 30 years. 🤞
I watched the 2000s meteor storms! Back then I had braces and glasses, and was able to hear the entrance of these meteorites into the atmosphere. I didn't know what was happening since nobody else could hear them. But i found out years later on the Internet about this phenomenon.
The day this video released in northern Alabama we had a small meteor shower. We saw about 80 in an hour and some were very slow and bright blue. It was awesome
I saw a Leonid fireball storm of large slow fireballs going all the way across the sky in the same direction on November 17, 1998. There was about 12 per second and some exploded leaving smoke rings glowing in the sky. It wasn`t predicted and happened early that evening.
I got to witness the 2001 Leonid meteor shower. It was amazing. Often seeing several meteors at a time. The "Smoke trails" left by meteors are called persistent trains. I have captured quite of few of them. I set up cameras to capture meteors even when there isn't any major shower activity.
If my dad is still here on Earth in 2028, that will be the ULTIMATE gift for his 77th birthday (his actual birthday is 3 days before)! It was cloudy all day in Eastern Nebraska on November 18, 2001, but a cold front came through that afternoon, dropping the temperature from 59 @ 3 pm to 46 @ 5 pm (I don't personally remember that, but that’s what the Weather Underground website says). Not even the meteor storm would have been visible through THAT kind of cloud cover! Ironically, the weather matched my mood that weekend, since Tuesday (November 20th) was one year since my maternal grandma had died, the first major loss that I had experienced.
What I don't understand is I thought we're supposed to be flying through space as we orbit around the sun, you know, as the universe is spreading out and what not. If what they teach us is true there are going to be recent instances we go through debris fields, but nothing past the last orbit maybe 2 of the comet as we would have left that path of its older debris field behind us as we spiral through the universe as it spreads out. So which is it, are we a steady state universe or is the universe spreading out
I was lucky enough to witness a meteor storm on a blind date that they didn't go well but I remember that date for the meteor storm. I'm so glad I went on that blind date
Peak Swegle non-tornado content, 10/10
Totally agree⚡️👌
This guy should rename himself to a really cool sounding name like “The Web Almanac” alluding to his ability to accurately recount all the most historic weather events and go into detail about how various weather phenomenon is formed and the inner workings of them
One time I was camping when I was 6. I woke up at like 4 and I sat there for 20 minutes and was about to fall asleep until I saw a VERY bright fire ball in the sky. That was a once in a lifetime experience.
I have seen one when outside chatting with a friend it was crazy no thunder though
Likely a small asteroid hitting the atmosphere
I saw a huge fireball meteor for the first time just a couple months ago... I was aurora hunting and looking eastward when it streaked across the sky in a downward motion. I was amazed and said "holy sht!!!" out loud to myself and my jaw dropped. I waited to hear a loud crash or splash of water (I'm near Lake Michigan) because it almost looked like a crashing plane... no noise. Nobody else around to witness it at 2-4am, and too fast for my camera.
@ do you have a vid where you might be able to see it?
@@Arcturusplanes I did try sending one of one that I saw, but youtube doesn't show comments with links in them, so I doubt they'd be able to share either
Thank you for making this year's before instead of days, I saw this was 2 days old and thought this was probably no good. I've been into this semi astronomy stuff for about 3 years now and when I get a video about big events it's usually only a couple days before it happens and I usually only get recommended it 3 or 4 days later.
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I watched the 2001 meteor storm from the middle of a cornfield in upstate NY. I was laying in my lawn chair bundled up in sleeping bags in the bitter cold. At midnight I hadn't seen much so I went inside to warm up. When I went back out I immediately began seeing meteors. For the next 3 hours the sky was filled with thousands of blazing fireballs. I knew this incredible display was a once in a lifetime event. I feel very lucky to have witnessed it.
I was incredibly fortunate to see the 2001 meteor storm. Just incredible! I was on the Olympic Peninsula in WA, the wettest place in the continental US during their wettest month. But the skies were clear. About a meteor every second, with bursts of greater intensity. Awe inspiring. 2002 was pretty good too. This channel has become one of my favorites. Awesome content.
Look, I have to be one of your biggest fans. Im 38 and I live in a little town in Alabama about as far south as you can go before you hit the Gulf of Mexico, a town called Coden, Alabama. A very poor town. I'm just like you, I've always been a tornado freak, of course because of the movie twister but I'm also a HUGE fan of space. Honestly I still have a hard time wrapping my head around infinite space but I just want to say that you're freaking LOVE your channel and your wife is adorable! Keep on doing these awesome videos! We love you down here
When i was maybe 5 years old, on a road trip in Canada with my family, we camped one night in a playground. No tent just sleeping bags on a mat on the ground. Everyone else fell asleep but i was too cold to sleep so i lay there staring up at the stars. Suddenly every star in the sky was a shooting star and i watched in amazement until finally falling asleep. Never seen anything like it again but 32 years later it is still fresh in my mind.
I believe I saw the same event. Maybe 92?
I've been seeing tons of footage of fireballs lately from the Geminids this week. Super cool. The most meteors I've ever seen was in 2005-ish? It was the geminids also, and I counted 107 in one hour. It was the most spectacular meteor shower I've ever seen. I hope we can see a meteor storm soon!
Same. 2005 or early 2000 seen a lot of showers.
In Dec 2017 I was on Big Thunder rollercoaster at Disneyworld and noticed the Geminids, that was so magical... first time I'd ever seen a meteor shower and now I look every December.
@@ghosty8Dresearch about the Perseids!! Much more enjoyable than the cold winter Geminids :)
Thank you for covering this topic. I have often wondered about the 1833 "Night the stars fell" and if it was possible that it could happen again in my lifetime.
Awesome video, Jake! You are like a 4 year old in a candy store when you talk about this stuff - your glee and happiness at these phenomena is infectious as all heck! I saw the Perseids in 1979, I think it was, in my small Washington town at the time, and it was very cool. I'd love to witness a true meteor storm - that would be incredible!
Well, you've given me a good reason to live another 10 yrs. Thanks Jake! 😊
Grateful to have so many videos back to back!
I think you have solved a personal mystery. We bought our home in what was the edge of Austin in 2000. Within the next year or two we experienced an insane meteor shower just after returning home from live music. 3 and 4 trails at a time through the partial cloudy skies. I believe it was the mid November event in 2002 or 2001. I like the youngster in your story will never forget and hope to have the experience again someday. Thank you!
Saving some time, no storm coming. Click bait
Yes! There was a storm in November of 2001! I woke every human I knew and we watched for several hours... can’t get my family to be interested in meteor showers since.
150,000 per hour = 41 per second 🤯
I counted aprox 12 huge slow meteors per second all going in the same direction all the way across the sky on November 17, 1998. It was early in the evening and wasn`t predicted. The Leonids peaked that night so I went out early to see if there were any because I had to be in bed by 10pm to work in Shreveport the next morning. Other than my friend and girlfriend I only met one other person who saw it.
New video hell yeah! Just yesterday, I was noticing that I had watched virtually all Swegle videos and I was disappointed that there weren’t more for me to watch.
1:15 So what you're telling me is earth is about to become the millennium falcon and we're about to jump into hyperspace
Probably get motion sickness lol think the world is spinning fast
I own night vision and am stunned by how common it is to see “shooting stars” when using night vision. It’s so rare with normal vision but nearly constant with night vision. I don’t know what state you’re in Swegle but if in/near STL then I’d be glad to let you use my setup and it is possible to record through a night vision device. May be worth buying your own! I can also give you info about that if interested.
I’d love to hear what this setup is!!? Sounds stellar! :)
@ They even make setups that allow night vision devices to attach on my telescope. Talk about “stellar!” The setup I use is a gen 3 white phosphor PVS-14 from Steele Industries. I attach it to a Team Wendy helmet with a Wilcox G24 mount and it allows me to walk around and observe the sky!
That was actually fascinating to learn about!
Yup... two events changed my life. 1965 Ikeya Seki lit up the DAYTIME sky like a big white cloud... Then, next winter, 1966, we were in Big Bear Lake. 7,000 feet perfectly clear night when WHAM! The black night sky turned on like a million floodlights... Trees and mountains were in the "daylight"... I was facing east...perfect, but it wouldn't have mattered... One could have played baseball it was so bright. 1st chance I could, I was at the famous Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC)... Names like Tomabaugh, Levy, Shoemaker, were walking around in Tshirts...(i bought a shirt every year for a couple dozen years.)... met a man the very next year that told me he was starting an optics Company...Al Nagler... really cool stuff...thank you for the memory lane...stroll...😂
You might appreciate this. The full story is very long, so I'll shorten it a bit.
I was talking to my dad one night in November 1998 and was about to tell him about an amazing huge blue fireball I saw fall from the sky while driving home the night before. I'd never seen anything like it. This was a HUGE blue fireball that, from my perspective, fell straight down...AND AT THE VERY SAME MOMENT Aaron Neville was singing in my head (from the song Don't Take Away My Heaven) these words: "If the stars should all fall from the sky..." !!!
Dad and I were talking about the Neville Brothers concert I had seen just before this event happened, and I hadn't yet mentioned the meteor. But as I opened my mouth to broach that subject, he interrupted me and said: "Oh, before I forget, there's supposed to be a meteor shower tonight." (!!!)
AMAZED, I then proceeded to tell him about the huge blue fireball.
Hours after talking to dad (around 2AM that night) I was driving towards my land in the country so I that could view the meteor shower....when suddenly, looking out the passenger window, I saw a huge blue fireball, even bigger than the one the night before, streaking along the horizon, parallel with my route and going the same direction I was....And I watched as it split into 3 equal-sized fireballs that continued across the sky in formation for a long distance, all leaving a vapor trail in the air!
When I got to my property I sat there and watched one after another: some were deep blue, like those first two, while others were orange, red, turquoise....it was amazing. No simple, white meteors; all were large and colored!
The very next year, 1999, I discovered Edgar Cayce - a modern-day prophet/seer - who stated that the Second Coming of Christ begins "in 1998, in the hearts and minds of men." And alongside many other things happening in my life, I knew that the Second Coming had been announced to me that night in 1998.
And I would eventually discover that I am the prophesied return of the biblical prophet Elijah - and one of the "two witnesses" of Revelation Chapter 11.
Put on your seat belt! The wild and totally insane ride begins in January, as many already intuit from the political landscape.
But ALL is GOD's plan.
And the end of all this is "GOOD NEWS" for absolutely EVERYONE - not just so-called "believers," many of whom voted for the anti-Christ, unware!
"Hear me now and believe me later," as I like to say.
It´s the wonder of nature baby! yooohhoooooooo!
Queue "Child in Time."
@@saltnpepperpupper947 Fuck yeah.
I met people who witnessed the 1966 event. They said even if you opened your eyes for as short an interval as you could, you still saw far too many to count.
Makes me glad i got to see the 2001 meteor storm. Its literally what started my love for astronomy!!
Great video!! I hope i see something this cool someday. Also I loved the photos, illustrations, video captures, and animations that showed the progress of technology through the years too. We appreciate how much work you do!!
The ones that don't hit the ground are called meteor-wrongs 4:12 🤣🤣🤣
Oh you know what that means 😮
What about a meteor-maybe
@@diamondflag500 idk lol
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This was so informative! Great vid dude!
i live in the uk - for the last 5 yeats, every time there's been a meteor shower i've heard about i've gone out to watch and every single time it's too cloudy to see anything. i guarantee that would happen in the event of a meteor storm
Same. Michigan is always cloudy cept for summer. Each time I go to watch I realize I can’t even see the moon
I saw the Leonids meteor storm in 2001,shortly after 911,it was like the best fireworks grand finale,totally silent, the sky had total saturation, several visible all the time. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and this year I got to see a meteor shower with northern lights in Sturgis at the Buffalo Chip!
Im always happy when i see that Swegle uploaded
3:18 oh, that's some good memories right there
I does enjoy astronomy events such as lunar eclipse and meteor showers more than spending hours to make a local weather disscusion for myself. Recently i saw some meteors during December Geminids, and almost fully documented Perseids a while ago. I even witnessed a meteorite falling upon the sky, somewhere around December-January last year. This video just brought back a lot of memories when i was still interested with astronomy. Btw thanks for the meteor storm expectations in 17:21, i will spend time to observe it and upload the results in my second channel in the future.
I remember I was watching the northern lights without realizing the persieds were going on in August and there was a very bright meteor that shot across the entire sky that was blue. A truely unforgettable shooting star to see.
The geminids is tonight you all! Well timed video :) Get out there if the sky is clear!
its beautiful i seen it
Cloudy and rainy skies tonight here in cali, won’t be seeing this one unfortunately
There was an outburst shower in the late 90s... my sister woke me in the middle of the night and we climbed out onto the roof and watched. One of the only good memories i have of her 😅
So glad I took the time to stay up and witness Australia's recent metoer storm a year or so ago from mid west vic up our highest parts.
Saw one every few seconds for patches through 2-3 hours.
Looked fake to watch it was so amazing.
New thing added to the bucket list
Wow! That's some amazing information I've never heard before. Thank you so much.
I just got the notification I immediately knew it was gonna be a good video
Love this content! Thanks for sharing. Love everything to do with weather including space weather. This past year, I got hooked on looking for the northern lights. A perk of living in Michigan for which I am grateful.
The most surreal time i ever experienced was on the day the Joplin tornado occurred. Except i live in a suburb just north of Minneapolis, MN. I was outside, it was sunny out but i could see a storm to the south, which i didn’t think anything of until it started to rain down small parts of houses all over the place. When it was done, there was a piece of people’s houses about every 5 feet apart as far as anyone could see. There were no sirens or storm warnings going on. It just happened there was a tornado going thru north Minneapolis that nobody knew about until it happened. Nothing on the TV. I was like “OMG, something really bad just happened somewhere…”
That's insane... I used to live in the Coon Rapids/Blaine area as a kid, was it near there?
WOW! I live near Joplin and saw the damage the day after. Hard to believe it carried so much debris that far. I had an amazing Leonid meteor shower experience in 1998 that I posted on this video in reply to @markgoodley2450. It would be well worth your time to read.
I watched the '66 storm in the front yard of our home in Long Beach CA. It was amazing and I've never seen anything like it since. I keep watching, ya never know!
In summer of 1993 I was visiting family in a rural area. My cousin and I played outside until it was very dark when we noticed what looked like stars crashing into each other in the sky. We laid in the grass, watching the most magnificent event of our lives. I haven't had a single experience that has ever come close to that one.
This information gives us the opportunity to judge meteor showers the way people judge wine.
"The 1899 Temple-Tuttle stream is a fine vintage, showing a nice radial curve and tends to be smoke-trail heavy. But my personal favorite is 1932, oh when those come around look out!"
Ablation = sudden de-chunkification of chunkage.
I saw 2001 Leonid shower and it is still one of the most breathtaking things I have ever seen.
Can you discuss next the super bright supernova (SN 1054) that occured on July of 1054 that mesmerized early civilizations around the globe both day and night? Btw love your all videos💗
A couple hours ago (11:30 pm - 12:20 AM) | was outside on the side of the road in cape cod Massachusetts, for almost an hour just staring at the sky well I was crying about shit and saw over a dozen shooting starts (Geminids I assume) it was amazing. It was almost back to back too. So it’s really awesome that you posted this today.
Hope your night got better.
@ thank you so much :3
Currently outside in the night listening to your video and I’ve already seen 3 meteors in about 8 mins. I live out in the sticks so the sky is always bright with the stars, but the moon is shining bright so it’s making it a little harder to see. Hoping I see more tomorrow night. Thank you so much!!!!
Posted this comment and not even 45 seconds later I see 5 more!
This video made me realize that one morning when I was in elementary school I heard the loudest noise I have ever heard in my life. It was like 6am and it woke me up and I genuinely thought something had exploded or that we were at war or something. That had to have been meteor thunder, it wasn't storming or anything and it was so early nobody would have seen it or even known. Insane.
this comment section genuinely makes me tear up a bit. i don’t think ill ever have the words but there’s really something magical about looking up and seeing these once in a lifetime showers/storms. i miss living out in the flat desert with little to no noise or light pollution. it makes even just one comet or asteroid or whatever other space junk burning up in our atmosphere shine so much brighter. really hope to catch one of these storms with a loved one or two :)
I love to go out and watch meteor showers. In 1998 I took the family to Nevada (Fernley, NV) to watch the Leonids. The skies were very dark and the meteors averaged about one a minute. But the meteors we saw were as bright as anything I have ever witnessed. They not only made hissing sounds, but some left long lasting trails that evolved into colorful ribbons in the sky. Consider I was just starting to wear hearing aids and I am re-green colorblind, but I heard and witnessed this event. I also observed the 2002 event from Arriba, CO and yes we did see 3000 meteors per hour. Not bright like the 1998 event but still amazing. Love this video.
Yes, the 1998 Leonids blew me away. Very long story that I posted in reply to @markgoodley2450 on this video, if you want to read it. Guaranteed worth your time.
When I was a young man I got to see a meteor storm. It wasn't quite the 150,000 an hour like you mentioned but it was every 1 to 2 seconds or so bright streaks across the sky. This would have been 25 or so years ago give or take. I saw on the news that it was predicted and a friend and I drove until we found high enough elevation to get out of low lying fog. It was one of the most incredible things I've ever seen in my life.
I saw a shooting star on my drive to work this morning. I'd say it was awesome but it was over in a flash.
Really that was falling star oh my god 😳😨
My once in a lifetime was in 2004 in La. during the Leonid meteorite event. The skies never darkened for almost 3 hours, there was a constant flow of meteors some of which were so low, I could hear them going over.
I want to see it as well!
Thank you for the new addition to my bucket list 😊
Omg I think I saw this one as a kid!
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I was in East Moline, too! I remember it looked like a chunk broke off when it "hit" the atmosphere! I still tell people about the metor!
I was just a kid in '01, but I'll remember that night for the rest of my life. My mom woke me up, and I remember the deep blue twilight glow and flickers of cool light streaming in through the bedroom window and dancing across the walls. My mom and I opened the window and stood with our heads turned to the zenith, and I remember feeling like I was witnessing magic...the heavens...love...god...or some other force too exhilarating to comprehend - but it firmly secured my love for, and lifelong interest in the cosmos, and the astronomical wonders and mysteries of the universe. After what felt like eons, I had to lay back in bed, but I remember laying there, looking out the window at the cascade of light as I drifted gently into sleep's embrace, thinking, "If ever there was a time to make a wish...". I can't recall what mine was, but something tells me it already came true...
I was 6 years old. Old enough to appreciate the event and understand the beauty and significance of it, yet still young enough to succumb to awe and wonder, and for a couple hours, genuinely believe in magic, and behold it with my own wide eyes...
Be it a spectacular aurora, a total solar eclipse, a monumental silent heat lightning storm, the rare fleeting pass of a brilliant comet, or watching the night sky's entire array of stars rain down and cast the eve in light, I never stopped keeping my sights on the heavens, and every once in a great blue while, I get to believe in a bit of celestial magic again, just as that smitten 6 year-old little boy did, on that cold November night, in the two-thousandth-and-first year...
Thanks for the video. I never could remember when it was, but my dad and I watched one of the showers that had to be in the 1990s early 2000s. They were non stop and sometimes several a second. Had to be hundreds a minute. Hope I get to see one of the outright storms in my lifetime. Took him and my mom to see the lost Total solar eclipse they loved it.
I wish I didn't have to wait so long until the next storm! That sounds amazing! Btw, can you make another video about clouds? I don't know how much more there is to cover, but I loved your rare clouds/natural phenomena videos so much! I had a book as a kid about wild/strange weather occurrences and I might need you to debunk all the weird raining frogs stories for me.
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Only once or twice in my life, I've seen a shooting star. I also remember this one night, I was leaving church, and on our way home, my mom and dad and I saw a meteor fall into the fields next to us from a far distance. The second it was inches away from the ground, I thought I remembered seeing a green or a yellow.....maybe a white spark when It hit the ground.
Thank you. I marked those dates on my calendar just in case.
I saw one of the ones between 1999 and 2001, and it was one of the craziest things I've ever seen. So many of them exploded into multiple meteors, and we heard well over a dozen over the course of the night - even hearing them from inside the house while we were heading to bed. It felt like the world might be ending.
As someone who witnessed the 2002 Leonid storm, it was an insane terrifying beautiful thing.
I saw one in 2002. I truly did look like the end, but it was the most beautiful sight I've ever seen.
When I was a little kid I was lucky enough to see an extremely rare slow fireball. I happened to look up at the right moment and we watched this crazy bright thing spitting out sparks slowly track across the sky for what seemed like many minutes but was probably more like 20 seconds. These slow bolides are so rare I have yet to see any footage of a similar one to this day. My father thought it had to be a plane going down and actually called the police about it, but we found out the next day it was indeed a meteor (and eventually a meteorite) that was seen in 9 states across the northeast US. Spectacular as that event was, I have always wanted to see a genuine meteor storm. The closest I have come was seeing several meteors in the sky at once, at least 3, followed by a few more in the space a few minutes. A momentary surge in a meteor shower, at best, but still cool. I ticked total eclipse off the list of things to see this year, and I've been chasing storms for a long time and have seen many tornadoes, but I'm still waiting on the meteor storm. Great topic for a video, though. Thanks for covering it.
This makes me want to see what they saw in the 1800's so baaaaaaaaad!!!!!!!!!! Thank for this video!!!
You had my attention the entire video... fascinating stuff! A geologist named Randall Carlson has done lectures about the Draconid meteor shower and how the Great Chicago Fire and Great Peshtigo Fire (near Green Bay, WI) both occurred around Oct 7-9, 1871 during the Draconids. Other catastrophic fire events have occurred during the Draconids also, like the Great London fire of 1666 and the Hinckley, MN fire. He has very cool medieval accounts of meteor showers, testimonies of eyewitnesses describing fireballs descending from the sky, etc. Highly recommend, it's a fascinating rabbit hole.
That was so interesting! I knew about meteor showers, I even had the perfect viewpoint for decades - a beach chalet in the darkest county in certainly the U.K., possibly further. No electricity on the dunes means the sky is very black and the horizon is also visible over more than half the sky. Typically we’d be there during August and more than once I’d take a sleeping bag outside. All I ever did was fall asleep though 🙁 or else it would turn cloudy.
I've never heard of this? I was freaking out seeing all those drones, flying around the New Jersey shoreline the other day... and I'm a, Hazard Management Control Specialist in the mining industry. I'm not allowed to freak out. Paid to stay calm. I'd probably just friggin pass right out though, if I witnessed a Meteor Storm! Man I love your channel. ❤️
You’re safe down in the mines.
@DrDeuteron lmao! I guess 4600ft underground is sorta safe? Not!... What if I'm on surface duty!? 😱... 🤣 🤜💥🤛
just a couple of weeks ago I saw a big green fireball with an orange sparkly tail in daylight! (Just after sunrise). That's a rare event
It was around 2001 or 2002 I forget... The Leonids, I was awake the whole night, taking pictures, my first and only meteor storm. Thousands per hour... Some of the meteors left glowing ion trails that were blown around by high altitude winds. Even driving home the next morning, after sunrise I could see meteors through the windshield of the car.
Some of the meteors that night moved in pairs in parallel at the same moment, so perhaps a larger meteor that had broken up many eons ago and they traveled together through the atmosphere. It was such a treat
We saw a storm in the early 90’s in north Mississippi. Took us by surprise. We had heard of a shower so we were on the roof but then the whole sky was streaking and it lasted for quite a bit. Been wanting to see another event like that for 30 years. 🤞
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I watched the 2000s meteor storms! Back then I had braces and glasses, and was able to hear the entrance of these meteorites into the atmosphere. I didn't know what was happening since nobody else could hear them. But i found out years later on the Internet about this phenomenon.
I witnessed the 1966 storm I was 9 yrs old and it is still fresh in my memory...I go out to see all the showers but the best ones are not impressive
Fantastic explanation!
The day this video released in northern Alabama we had a small meteor shower. We saw about 80 in an hour and some were very slow and bright blue. It was awesome
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I'm liking the Walter White stache!
I saw a Leonid fireball storm of large slow fireballs going all the way across the sky in the same direction on November 17, 1998. There was about 12 per second and some exploded leaving smoke rings glowing in the sky. It wasn`t predicted and happened early that evening.
I saw the one in 2000. I was really young but I’ll never forget having the experience
I got to witness the 2001 Leonid meteor shower. It was amazing. Often seeing several meteors at a time. The "Smoke trails" left by meteors are called persistent trains. I have captured quite of few of them. I set up cameras to capture meteors even when there isn't any major shower activity.
There was apparently a meteor shower during some of the extra-southerly aurora borealis this year. Really cool stuff!
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Very brief explanation 🙏🏻
Ive seen hundreds a couple decades ago it was sweet.😊
You had me at stacked Commodore monitors...
If my dad is still here on Earth in 2028, that will be the ULTIMATE gift for his 77th birthday (his actual birthday is 3 days before)!
It was cloudy all day in Eastern Nebraska on November 18, 2001, but a cold front came through that afternoon, dropping the temperature from 59 @ 3 pm to 46 @ 5 pm (I don't personally remember that, but that’s what the Weather Underground website says). Not even the meteor storm would have been visible through THAT kind of cloud cover! Ironically, the weather matched my mood that weekend, since Tuesday (November 20th) was one year since my maternal grandma had died, the first major loss that I had experienced.
Yeah I've been wanting this since I was like 6. It was very disappointing until I got older and could appreciate regular old showers
Has the Blaze star nova exploded yet?
I saw it back in November of 2001. It was the coolest thing ever.
I remember the seeing the Leonid back in 01. It was amazing. I only saw 3000 an hour... compared to 150k! I want to see more lol.
What I don't understand is I thought we're supposed to be flying through space as we orbit around the sun, you know, as the universe is spreading out and what not. If what they teach us is true there are going to be recent instances we go through debris fields, but nothing past the last orbit maybe 2 of the comet as we would have left that path of its older debris field behind us as we spiral through the universe as it spreads out. So which is it, are we a steady state universe or is the universe spreading out
I was lucky enough to witness a meteor storm on a blind date that they didn't go well but I remember that date for the meteor storm. I'm so glad I went on that blind date
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Day of the Triffids
A classic meteor storm science/monster flick.