Comments on: The Incredible Phenomenon of Ball Lightning

By: links for 2009-06-21 | Nerdcore

links for 2009-06-21 | Nerdcore — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:03:27 +0000

[...] The Incredible Phenomenon of Ball Lightning (tags: lightning nature) [...]

By: Tricia

Tricia — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:10:02 +0000

I always thoght ball lightning resulted when lightning gets “lost” and is unable to go to ground. The ball lightning I saw 20 years ago was from a lightning strike into heavy snow. It formed a ball, wandered around for a while, and then seemed to just disappear. It was so surprising, and so beautiful.

By: Mike O.

Mike O. — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:20:44 +0000

In the late 50s/early 60s (I was somewhere around 8 yrs old) I experienced ball lightning first hand. There was a thunderstorm and my mother and I were watching TV. Suddenly, a bright sphere drifted into the living room from the kitchen, moving very slowly. It was pinkish in color, blending to a yellow around the perimeter, where you could see electrical spikes of activity. It drifted across our view until it got near the TV, which seemed to attract it, because it took another left into the TV, whose screen glowed for a few seconds, then died.

We were dumbstruck during the whole episode (maybe 5-7 seconds or so). For some reason, I seem to remember it emerging from around our sink in the kitchen, thought that memory might have been surmised. My mother took the whole thing rather matter-of-factly, berating herself for leaving the TV on, which makes me wonder if that was her first experience.

We lived in N Central Wisconsin at the time.

BTW, great article.

By: Tyrone

Tyrone — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:03:42 +0000

Ball lighting is an amazing phenomenon and I always wondered what was behind it. Thank you for writing this post.

By: lee

lee — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:24:31 +0000

I do not recommend these actions. private area. wait for big thunder storm. leave pawling ny downtown, go north on Dover. Go left @ Blackberry….go all the way up. 17% grade and curvy [have solid brakes for trip back down. ]. go right @ beach rd. park and go to shore of bigger [upper] .lake. watch rolling balls of lightening. sometimes one will roll over the mountain tops for over a minute and half… boom boom boom as it hits each peak. crazy. it happened during almost every big storm. several times during snow as well, but be wary of steep Blackberry in the winter. scary drive. Also…. be respectful and quiet up there. private road. i don’t recommend you go up there. i am not responsible if you do. if you party there, the small town cops will be there in no time. guaranteed. enjoy yourself..

By: Karl Fabricius

Karl Fabricius — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:03:13 +0000

Thanks to the readers who brought up the issue with the two photos. The one less likely to be the original has been removed. Cheers, Karl

By: tomb

tomb — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:30:18 +0000

Please fix your font

By: jarret porter

jarret porter — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:26:02 +0000

I’m glad I wasn’t the only one to catch the fourth and fifth image similarities.

By: Superpitcher

Superpitcher — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:07:47 +0000

Cool photos. I witnessed ball lighting once. I saw a glowing ball float across a field at night. I was a teenager at the time so i was pretty scared and ran back in the house. haha. Only years later did i learn about ball lighting.

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