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johntp

Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 16, 2018 - 09:41pm PT
Watching a lightning storm about 30 miles away from my porch. The lightning is red. Can't recall seeing red lightning before. It's 11:40 PM here in Little Rock, so it's not related to a sunset.

What's with that?
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 16, 2018 - 09:54pm PT
Smog + smoke = red lightning
skywalker1

Trad climber
co
Aug 16, 2018 - 10:07pm PT
^^^My first thought. Maybe a little humidity too?

Enjoy!

S...
skywalker1

Trad climber
co
Aug 16, 2018 - 10:18pm PT
^^^^LOL!!!!
clifff

Mountain climber
golden, rollin hills of California
Aug 17, 2018 - 05:43am PT

Elves, Sprites & Blue Jets: Earth's Weirdest Lightning

https://www.livescience.com/42731-weird-lightning-types.html

Lightning sprites over Oklahoma

http://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-lightning-sprite-over-oklahoma

https://www.google.com/search?q=sprites+lightning&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1
fear

Ice climber
hartford, ct
Aug 17, 2018 - 06:07am PT
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind in that photo above! Amazing.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Aug 17, 2018 - 06:20am PT
Where’s Klimmer when we need him?
Gary

Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
Aug 17, 2018 - 06:57am PT
We called that heat lightning when I was a kid. Colored red and up in the clouds.
mouse from merced

Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
Aug 17, 2018 - 07:58am PT
FSU's football program features red lightning.[Click to View YouTube Video]
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