Ball lightning

Ball lightning is one of the most unusual and unexplained type of lightning. It is, technically speaking, a luminous, spherical atmospheric electrical phenomenon, which just means it is a round, glowing ball of electricity. Ball lightning is so rare that hard scientific data on this freak of nature remains scanty, but scientists have been able to replicate the phenomenon in the laboratory setting. Ball lightning is associated with thunderstorms, but last much longer than the split-second…

Learn about ball lightning in weather science. Discover what it is, whether it's real, why it occurs, and whether it's dangerous.

Countless witnesses tell of balls of light that float aboveground during thunderstorms. This has nothing to do with UFOs, and everything to do with physics.

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Scientists at Northwestern Normal University in Lanzhou, China, recorded ball lightning during a thunderstorm in Qinghai when they were mapping radiation.

What is ball lightning? Scientists have been trying to figure that out for hundreds of years, and now it seems they may finally be close to solving one of Earth's most intriguing natural mysteries.

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