The giant jet is the most powerful type of lightning that occurs over a thousand times a year and has 50 times more energy than a typical lightning bolt
Meteorologists call them “gigantic jets”, i.e. gigantic jets – strong and rare lightning “trees” that include 50 times more energy from standard lightning.
A photographer based in Puerto Rico recorded this rarely seen weather phenomenon on August 20 while documenting the tropical storm developing to the west into Hurricane Franklin.
The giant jets, almost the electric effect of “red elves”get their crimson hue from contact with Earth’s ionosphere which is 50 to 400 miles above sea level.
The unusual upward lightning strikes, which only occur approx 1,000 times a year around the world, they are thought to occur most often during storms over the open ocean.
It is estimated that lightning strikes with “upwards” direction like these giant jets, make up less than one percent of all lightning.
The phenomenon was recorded for first time in July 2002 and most of them are recorded in tropical regionss.
This study, which recorded a giant jet on May 14, 2018 over Oklahoma, built a map of the lightning phenomenon in 3D – determining the structural details of its formation in high definition for the first time.
Levi Boggs, a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology Research, assembled a group of people to look at data from satellites, radar and radio waves of the Oklahoma Air Force after seeing a civilian photo of the incident that doesn’t look like these new images.
Photographer Frankie Lucena captured not just one, but three giant jets during the tropical storm’s movements last month.
The lightning strikes occurred in the early morning hours between 2:56 a.m. and 3:04 a.m.
The specific phenomena of this August are not the first recorded by Lucena, who investigates them.
On July 24, 2017, Lucena observed giant jets captured by the Gemini Cloudcam at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.
After downloading the screenshot, Lucena enhanced the colors to show it better impressive phenomenon.
The video also revealed some equally rare ones ripples in the sky that sometimes appear above storms, as gravity waves.
“These gravitational waves they are very close to the ionosphere at about 90 km.’
The giant jets and all these electrical events have been around for a long time object of admirationand some have even debated their existence over the years since they are so fleeting and thus often difficult to observe.
Source: Skai
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