China Ball Lightning

Great balls of lightning.

China ball lightning.

A video recorded by accident of ball lightning in china is now shedding light on the phenomenon s mysterious origins researchers say. A lightning bolt has ignited a massive fireball over a chinese city after it struck high voltage power lines. Scientists accidentally record ball lightning in nature for first time. Observed and recorded an instance of ball lightning completely by.

A massive lightning bolt has ignited a fireball over a city in china after it struck the city s high voltage power lines. Researchers from lanzhou china s northwest normal university inadvertently recorded a ball lightning event while studying a 2012 thunderstorm using video cameras and spectrometers. In january 2014 scientists from northwest normal university in lanzhou china published the results of recordings made in july 2012 of the optical spectrum of what was thought to be natural ball lightning made by chance during the study of ordinary cloud ground lightning on the tibetan plateau. A footage captured by a resident shows a blaze that broke out after a very loud bang was heard in the city of shenyang on august 3.

However a lightning bolt was later found to be behind the massive fireball in shenyang city in china after it struck high voltage power lines. Bizarre glow that has eluded scientists for centuries is captured on video for the first time. Chinese researchers have done the seemingly impossible. Ball lightning occurs as glowing spheres ranging in size from.

Ball lightning is a sphere of electrical light that can appear during a storm.