Purple Lightning

Description

Caught this just by chance. It's called CG lightning which means that it's a direct cloud to ground strike. For every flash that reaches the ground there are 10 to 15 cloud-to-cloud flashes, but cloud-to-ground lightning is the more dangerous kind. A flash can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, about five times hotter than the surface of the sun, and the air's sudden expansion makes the sound we hear as thunder.