#Lightening Storm

[alteredstatesstuff]

stormy seas

[lostestleo]

I feel such a nostalgic homesickness almost everyday.

Which is a little odd considering I am at home, every single day... Same house my whole life, as well.

Where do I go? I honestly wish I knew.

[kittybankz]

truth about grimes

You should know I'm the real Çlaire Lightening aka Claire Boucher; Grimes is Mafia impersonating me. It doesn't mean what you heard. It means they're grimey to me. They commit treason in slander&defamatory impersonation&adlibs. I've new music listed kittybankz&DjinniKing&a fictional audiobook listed as maridrainha I'm working on&this easily proves I'm the real Çlaire. I made all my content marked Grimes when age6-9in early90s including concerts&alleged live performances&I don't care what the media lead you to think bc what I say is fact. I'm39per this post. A lot of interviews were forced&ad-libbed anyways. I'm not involved w/Elon/we don't have kids; I think this Elon mess is a cover up for a momentarily encounter w/1of his boys they're overly paranoid about to the point of spreading treason however that's my opinion about why. I guess there's chance they did weird child molester things to me in my sleep, idk. I'd stick to my version if I were them. This isn't something I'm willing to argue about. I said I was a child. Block&reported to FBI. I'm not receiving payment, royalties or collateral for my life's work music&art. It was stolen&they're impersonating&sneering fans away fm me. I'm disabled, on welfare; if you think it's unbelievable then think twice about trusting the media just bc they're on TV are not giving evidence&when evidence is provided documents are fraud. They erase my comments when I comment on YouTube. I mean they have got the book of law&started breaking everything it to see how much they can get away with. I'm not joking. They're kid napping child molesters who surprise unsuspecting victims needle popping them&as a parent would never remember you had a child before you fainted&your baby disappeared. Who my parents are&where I'm fm&practically everything you've heard about me is fabricated fm fake news to fake social media accounts.

[casside-sionnach]

lightening on Saturn's south pole

[eerbreemariee]

[foreverknightalways]

Episode Filler:

Nick continues to play with the tarot cards on the floor of his loft during a lighting storm as the music continues to play in the background.

Music plays, ♪ The night calls my name ♪, ♪ If you could only see... ♪ Natalie's voice, This stuff makes vampires look like cute little schoolboys. ♪ ...always see The dark of the glass ♪, ♪ Moon rises With a hissing sound... ♪ Christina's Voice, Damn it, Nick. For all I know my show could be the whole cause of this. ♪ They'll be arriving Before dawn ♪, ♪ They'll be arriving... ♪ Christina's voice, He used that lipstick on the victim. ♪ The night calls My name ♪ Christina's voice, He doesn't feel part of the human race. Less than. So the rules that apply for us don't apply for him. ♪ The night calls My name ♪

[maviyenot]

[aphromight-y]

The balcony view from my old apartment. A simpler time.

[krowkeeper]

So I’m a dumb and didn’t realize i accidentally zoomed my camera… here you go, I guess

[xtruss]

Tonga 🇹🇴 Volcano Sparked the Most Intense Lightning Storm Ever Recorded

Last year’s eruption produced a raging storm at unprecedented altitudes, with 2,600 lightning flashes per minute at its peak

— Will Sullivan, Daily Correspondent | June 27, 2023 | Smithsonian Magazine

A photo of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcanic eruption taken on December 24, 2021, before the biggest eruption on January 15, 2022. Tsunamis caused by the eruption killed at six people in Tonga and Peru and displaced more than 1,500 people on Tongan islands. Maxar via Getty Images

On January 15, 2022, the underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai volcano blew its top in a massive eruption, propelling a giant plume of ash and gas beyond the stratosphere. It was the largest recorded eruption since 1991, when Mount Pinatubo erupted in the Philippines.

Now, researchers say the 2022 eruption prompted the most intense lightning rates ever recorded, per a new study published last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. At its peak, the raging lighting storm produced 2,600 flashes per minute.

The scientists also detected lightning as high as an estimated 12 to 19 miles above sea level. Previous research elsewhere has only recorded lighting up to roughly 11 miles above sea level, according to the study.

“We’ve never seen anything like this sheer rate of lightning before—and at such high altitudes,” study co-author Alexa Van Eaton, a volcanologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, tells Space.com’s Keith Cooper.

“This is a fascinating study and shows how the Tongan eruption influenced the Earth system in ways that you might not immediately associate with a volcanic explosion,” Sam Purkis, a geologist at the University of Miami who did not contribute to the research, tells the Washington Post’s Kasha Patel.

Located near the islands of Hunga Tonga and Hunga Ha’apai in the South Pacific Ocean, the volcano started spewing ash on December 19, 2021. But its activity peaked with the cataclysmic eruption on January 15, resulting in tsunamis that caused the deaths of four people in Tonga and two people in Peru, the Guardian’s Nicola Davis wrote in April. The tsunamis also displaced more than 1,500 people on Tongan islands, and the eruption impacted over 80 percent of Tonga’s population.

The volcanic plume shot out of the ocean and reached a height of at least 36 miles above sea level. At its most intense moments, the volcano spewed out material at a rate of about 11 billion pounds per second—that’s the weight of more than 15 Empire State Buildings every second.

“It was clear right away that this was going to be a showstopping scientific event,” Van Eaton tells the Washington Post. “It’s several orders of magnitude larger than anything we’re used to looking at … This eruption clearly was going to teach us something new.”

Since last year’s eruption, scientists have been studying the event and adding to an ever-growing list of ways it made history. The volcano increased the amount of water vapor in the stratosphere by 5 percent, one study found. And that massive amount of water vapor could trap enough heat to temporarily warm Earth’s surface, according to another study.

For the new paper, the researchers examined records of the eruption from satellites and ground-based radio antennas. When viewing satellite imagery of the blast, they watched the volcanic plume rise and spread outward. Surprisingly, the lightning flashes also spread outward in four concentric rings, which matched the four phases of the eruption, writes Space.com.

Researchers had previously identified lightning in this circular pattern, but this was the first time they spotted multiple lightning rings.

Lightning, which is caused by an imbalance of electrical charges, occurs during volcanic eruptions when bits of ash brush against each other, creating charged particles, and similarly, when ice particles become charged.

“It may be that larger particles were going one direction and smaller particles were going in another, and that helped create the charge separation that leads to electrical discharges,” Van Eaton tells the Washington Post.

Researchers theorize that the lightning storm was so strong because of the eruption’s intensity, the rapid expansion of the ash plume and the large amount of vaporized seawater in the plume.

The volcanic plume may also be to blame for the high-altitude flashes: It could have raised the air pressure, leading the lightning to occur so high above sea level, Van Eaton tells Science News’ Skyler Ware. At the typical low air pressures at higher altitudes, it’s more difficult to form the channels of plasma that are necessary for lightning, according to the paper.

On top of all the existing evidence for how powerful and unusual this eruption was, the study demonstrates another way that the volcano led to unexpected events on and around the planet.

“Hunga has completely changed the way we think of how natural events can change the atmosphere and the environment where we thought lightning could exist,” Jeff Lapierre, a co-author of the study and lightning scientist at the company Advanced Environmental Monitoring, tells Science News.

[alteredstatesstuff]

thunderstorm

[rabidhiss]

NY had an amazing lightening storm last night.

The best comment on this was “The Ghostbusters closed that portal, right?”

(Via NewYork_instagram)

[pangeen]

" Terrifying & Beautifull " // © Lucy James

Music: © James Quinn - Beyond Space and Time

[casside-sionnach]

Space weather ...

[foreverknightalways]

Episode Filler:

Nick continues his thinking during the lightening storm but is now playing electronic chess as the music is still playing. ♟♟

Nicholas' voice, How can you be so cruel? LaCroix's voice, It was bred into me. Nicholas' voice, No. No, we're killers, not torturers. LaCroix's voice, I was referring to a more insidious kind of breeding. ♪ I'm crying out In despair ♪ Nick's voice, She's a team player, Captain. She's putting herself out to help us, huh? I mean, she profiled the killer. ♪ The heart beats strong, But until ♪, ♪ It makes its way In for the kill ♪ , ♪ It's always darkest Before dawn ♪, ♪ It's always darkest Before dawn ♪

[maviyenot]