Guatemalan Woman Just Captured A Stunning Of Video Of An Upward Lightning, Here's Why It Occurs
Footage of the rare upward lightning capturedby Alyssa Barrundia a missionary living in Guatemala is going viral on social media. The incredible spectacle occured at Volcan de Agua in the south of the Central American country on Friday. A similar natural phenomena was captured byPhotographer Sergo Montufar which NASA had now featured as its Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Footage of the rare 'upward lightning' captured by Alyssa Barrundia, a missionary living in Guatemala, is going viral on social media. The incredible spectacle occured at Volcan de Agua in the south of the Central American country on Friday.
According to the Independent, Ms Barrundia said that it was the second time in the past few weeks that upward lighting had occurred on the mountain.
She said that she was never lucky enough to capture the mesmerising natural phenomenon. But this magically it all worked out and it's absolutely fascinating.
Barrundia who in absolute awe of the occurrence wrote on Facebook, "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day unto day utters speech, and night unto night reveals knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.
"Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world."
For those unaware, an upward lightning primarily occurs when there is a nearby positive cloud-to-ground flash.
It happens when an enhanced electrical field is focused into the tip of a tall object, such as a building or in this case a mountain.
'Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge. Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zips back up to the sky,' reads an explanatory answer on Earth Science.
As explained by Earth Science. It is the shape of the tall object and the resulting enhancement in the electrical field that makes it possible for an upward leader to form following a nearby flash.
A similar natural phenomena was captured by Photographer Sergo Montufar which NASA had now featured as its Astronomy Picture of the Day.
Sharing the picture online a Twitter user wrote, 'Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe? Pictured earlier this month in a two-image composite, lightning stems from communication antennas near the top of Volc¨¢n de Agua (Volcano of Water) in Guatemala.'
Have you ever watched a lightning storm in awe?
¡ª Domenico Calia (@CaliaDomenico) 29 July 2019
Pictured earlier this month in a two-image composite, lightning stems from communication antennas near the top of Volc¨¢n de Agua (Volcano of Water) in Guatemala.
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The storm in this picture took place in the skies over Antigua, saw lightning strike the top of the Volcan de Agua volcano .
NASA wrote: ¡°Pictured earlier this month in a two-image composite, lightning stems from communication antennas near the top of Volc¨¢n de Agua (Volcano of Water) in Guatemala.¡±
NASA explained: ¡°Details of what causes lightning are still being researched, but it is known that inside some clouds, internal updrafts cause collisions between ice and snow that slowly separate charges between cloud tops and bottoms.
¡°The rapid electrical discharges that are lightning soon result.¡±
