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Jelly Fish Sprites

10 June 2018
Electromagnetism

Storms and lightning over central Europe produced a spectacular display of sprites – see http://spaceweather.com (11th June 2018). Some 250 sprites were seen in just four and a half hours from the vantage point of the Czech republic (looking across the Hungarian Plain). The jelly fish sprites (see below) were very large – at the same time there was strong cloud to ground strokes inside a convective storm.

 

 

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