From spaceweather.com today.
SPRITES ABOVE HURRICANE MATTHEW: On Oct. 1st, Earth weather met space weather above Hurricane Matthew. As the giant storm system was approaching the Greater Antilles, Frankie Lucena of Puerto Rico photographed red sprites shooting up from the thunderclouds:
Sprites are a strange and beautiful form of lightning that shoot up from the tops of electrical storms. They reach all the way up to the edge of space alongside meteors, auroras, and noctilucent clouds. Some researchers believe cosmic rays help trigger sprites, making them a true space weather phenomenon.
Seeing sprites above a hurricane is rare. Most hurricanes don't even have regular lightning because the storms lack a key ingredient for electrical activity: vertical winds. (For more information read the Science@NASA article "Electric Hurricanes.") But Matthew is not a typical hurricane. It's one of the most powerful in recent years, briefly reaching Category 5 at about the time Lucena photographed the sprites. Perhaps extra-strong winds in the vicinity of the storm set the stage for upward-reaching bolts.
Sprite photographers across the Caribbean and the southeastern USA should be alert for more as the storm system approaches the mainland: observing tips:
http://www.knology.net/~skeetv/myobs.htm
Red sprites over hurricane Matthew
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Re: Red sprites over hurricane Matthew
I just read the dark matter people could be in for a disappointment if they can't accept dark matters common name is electro magnetic forces. We just had a whole week of Geomagnetic storms that had a good connection on the top of that hurricane that pointed out what happens on a small scale all over all the time. I'm afraid we get to see the poles go wacky if not all the way reversed yet in our or our kids lifespans.
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