Approaching the season of sprites

Season approaching so-called sprites. Spring thunderstorms often bring the first of the year in large bursts of activity these upward lightning.

Hunter sprites from Puerto Rico Frankie Lucena prepared a scheme to identify the different forms of the phenomenon, including the newly discovered type of sprites called "the Ghost."

"This scheme gives only an idea of what can be seen and photographed against the background of very strong thunderstorms, says Lucena. — I used real images, improved and slightly modified to better show how they actually look".

In the 1980s, when researchers from the University of Minnesota accidentally took a picture of the sprite, was known only to one form.

Since then, observers found a "menagerie". The last of them were opened "ghosts" (ghost).

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»