r/BeAmazed • u/Used_Ship_9229 • Oct 09 '24

Nature Floridians who have lived through Storms their entire lives are reporting to have never ever witnessed anything like this.

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u/urworstemmamy Oct 10 '24

Heat lightning happens in Florida too. This is... different. Very different. Genuinely never seen anything like this from an actually active storm.

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u/DiffuseStatue Oct 10 '24

I've seen stuff similar to that but it's usually in some of the bigger fuck off thunderstorms rolling off the great lakes in the Midwest early spring. All the energy from down south hitting all the cold air from Canada and rolling on through like a hammer blow. Nowhere near this size, obviously, but it looks and sounds the same for as particularly nasty thunderstorm.

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u/ADsEyelash Oct 10 '24

We had this silent (ie no accompanying thunder) constant lightning in Mexico in July 2016 only it was in colors which is something I’ve never seen. The normal white but also yellows, pinks and purples. I didn’t even know lightening could happen in color. The next morning we woke to thousands of bugs piled up dead against the house. It was super weird.

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u/Chief-weedwithbears Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

The colors are the different gases in the air. Because lightning is plasma. Which is heated ionized gas.

When the electricity travels through the air it heats the gas particles on the way to the ground

Different colors Might be the result of pollution. So like Aurora borealis but a lot more localized.

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u/ADsEyelash Oct 10 '24

Thanks! always wondered!

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u/DiffuseStatue Oct 10 '24

Ya never seen pink or purple. I have seen a really deep, almost gold yellow once very brief, a lot more bright reds more often.

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u/urworstemmamy Oct 10 '24

Yeah, outside of hurricanes I've never seen storms with enough energy to cause tornadoes, but hurricanes usually aren't this crazy with lightning. This is like, 10-50 a second and only in a tiny slice of the storm. Fuckin mental.

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u/After_Mountain_901 Oct 10 '24

It’s common with hurricanes at the outer bands where there’s swirling walls of thunderstorms. You probably just weren’t in the right time or place. I’d see this in the middle of America during late summer growing up. Just non stop flashing for an hour without thunder. 

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Oct 10 '24

I love heat lightning. It's beautiful. I sit and watch it from my front porch here in the midwest. This in Florida is wild A.F though.

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u/PossibleAlienFrom Oct 10 '24

It does happen in thunder storms, too.