Astronaut photographs rare red lightning phenomenon from ISS Sprites like the ones Pettit captured on video occur much higher than regular lightning. Their name is an acronym, short for ...

An astronaut captured an elusive glimpse of red lightning from space. NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick imaged the rare red sprite phenomenon from the International Space Station earlier in the year ...

Thunder and lightning. The phenomenon, known as thundersnow, occurs when a thunderstorm produces snow instead of rain. The weather event is so rare that Weather Channel meteorologist Jim Cantore ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) describes it as a "rare weather phenomenon" on its website ... go and generating enough electric charge for lightning—and, by extension, thunder—to occur.

This phenomenon forms ... Although rare, Northeast Wisconsin has experienced thundersnow before. The FOX 11 Storm Chaser captured lightning from thundersnow in 2019. A viewer, Lonna Einberger ...

It is an electrical discharge that occurs above thunderclouds, between 40km and 80km above the ground. Read more at ...

And then at the cloud level, they are surrounded by so much humidity and there is a lot of different electromagnetic stuff that is going on with lightning ... for the rare weather phenomenon ...

NASA astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain were the latest to share images of lightning as seen from 250 miles above ...

Credit: Don Pettit/NASA NASA astronaut Don Pettit captured breathtaking video of a rare atmospheric phenomenon from his ... (TLE ) or upper atmospheric lightning." The video captures around ...