OuiSi Nature card 169: Purple Lightning. Photograph by Camille Seaman The whole photograph behind card 169: Purple Lightning. Photograph by Camille Seaman

OuiSi Nature · Card 169

Purple Lightning

Location
Canadian, TX, USA
Date
June 25, 2014
Photograph byCamille Seaman

Description

Caught this just by chance. It's called CG lightning which means that it's a direct cloud to ground strike.

Photo linkinstagram.com/p/ppqOzGxofv
Learn morermets.org/metmatters/types-lightning
Camille Seaman

The photographer

Camille Seaman

TED Senior Fellow, Stanford Knight Fellow, Cinereach FIR Fellow, Nat Geo Contributing Photographer

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Purple Lightning

Photograph by Camille Seaman