Lightning Strike Recorded in Slow Motion

Author: Bryan McKay
Published: July 30, 2010 at 6:38 pm
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A special high-speed camera captured this fabulous multiple tower upward lightning flash outside of Rapid City, SD. Recorded at 9000 frames per second, the storm hardly looks real. Some smaller bolts flicker in and out of the frame while the larger leaders linger for several seconds (in slow-motion speed) at a time. This further supports my theory that everything looks cooler when you slow it down.

 
 

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