I'm a short distance north of Pensacola and as I usually do I went outside free netflixtech newsandroid 9 to watch as the heavy storms in the area passed by today. We didn't get anywhere near the amounts of rain and wind those north of us in Alabama did, but there was a ton of lightning. Although this was unlike any lightning I've ever seen. Every arc seemed red in color instead of the usual blinding white.
It was raining so I would think it would have cleared the air of any odd particulates that would filter the light. Wish I could have gotten a video but the storm was on the side of the house without much porch cover and the lens on my phone was getting covered in mist pretty quickly. Anyone know what can cause this?
Post by downeastnc on Mar 12, 2019 18:03:42 GMT -5
I think that I have read that the longer the bolt persist the more likely it is to be red/orange, also the further away the bolt is the more likely it is to be red/orange etc due to refraction....Also the term red lightning is used to describe sprites which are large electrical discharges out of the top of storms and rarely seen on the ground....they are actually red all the time...
This may be a particular kind of thing, but...I first noticed when I was young child, and a lifetime of observation has borne out, that when you see reddish lightning bolts in an approaching thunderstorm, that storm is in a state of decline.