"cavelamb himself" wrote in message
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| Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
|
| cavelamb himself wrote:
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| A few weeks ago, driving back toward Dallas from San Antonio I think
I
| may have seen something very strange... possibly.
|
| I'm not completely sure.
| Nut it did seem like it...
|
| It was a bizarre weather day.
| Snow on the blooming blue bonnets the day before.
|
| Somewhere just north of Waco I hit a huge storm cell.
| Visibility down to about 100 yards in heavy rain.
| Traffic was light (gee?) and down to 25 mph or so for a while.
|
| Out of the corner of my eye I saw something that looked like a black
| stripe - going UP!
|
| My first thought was "twister!", but it wasn't.
|
| When I glance that way, it happened again.
|
| It looked sorta like the after image of a lighting bolt - but no
| bright flash of light.
|
| And it went from the ground up.
|
| The same way a lightning strike looks like it comes from the sky
| down...
|
| I've seen film of the blue and red jets that sometimes spurt out of
| the tops of clouds when lightning is around.
|
| But I've never heard of this phenomenon before!
|
| Darkening????
|
| Anybody have a clue???
|
| Richard
|
|
|
| WHat you probably saw was a shadow. As you moved the area in the
shadow
| moved up.
|
|
|
| Ok, but twice?
|
| And - shadow of what?

What you may have seen is streamers that are positive charged and are
purple in color. They rise from the ground and meet the step leaders.
Together they complete the path for the main bolt of lightning:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/lightning4.htm

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OldPhart



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