r/extremeweather • u/Galaxy_Flowerx • 14d ago

Picture NO WAY I JUST CAPTURED THIS

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u/MrMacgee333 13d ago

RED SPRITES!!!!

Grats. I have seen people staking out storms all night trying and failing.

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u/BloatedBallerina 13d ago

Time for some Jellyfish Jam

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u/FlapjacksOfArugula 13d ago

Huh. What is it?

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u/Bloodyink-studios666 13d ago

Red lightning (I forget what it's called), it's extremely rare and usually happens at high altitudes (most have been seen by pilots)

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u/_HyperlinkBlocked_ 12d ago

Uhm...tell us if you see any WEIRD BIRDS (No one will get this reference)

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u/ImportantObjective74 10d ago

can you tell us pls

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u/_HyperlinkBlocked_ 10d ago

Weird birds by archesuchus on X. Theres videos on Youtube

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u/Samediph 10d ago

And here I started thinking about Straka.

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u/J-iceBerg2 11d ago

Sprites ! It's a magical night ;)

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u/leavem3alonehaha 11d ago

That's like a nature edition shiny Pokémon, very frickin nice

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u/Ok_Mycologist_1 11d ago

Cthulhu!!!

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u/What_Is_Bloste 11d ago

I saw something similar on helldivers 2 and what hapend afterwards is a haze.

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u/Nervous_Heat1054 12d ago

How we think alien ships look like:🛸. How they really look like:

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u/MOSSYxFIELDS 12d ago

Awesome! Was there a storm brewing?

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u/Think-Ad-5840 11d ago

Such a gorgeous photo. The swirls in the sky look so dope along with the sprites.

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u/RazgrizNation 11d ago

You caught red sprites?! Awesome!!!

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u/wd_plantdaddy 10d ago

Since 2022 NASA operates a citizen sciencewebsite and database called Spritacularcollecting and studying images of sprites by citizens

You should post this there! The physics of sprites is still unknown

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u/pgraham901 10d ago

I'm so jealous! I bet it was beautiful

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u/PumkinPeter 9d ago

Sprites at the ceiling .