Positive Lightning Bolt In The Florida Keys Filmed by Martin Kucera - FloridaLightning.com

Positive Lightning Strike - Superbolt near Islamorada, FL on April 10th, 2006.
Filmed by Martin Kucera - FloridaLightning.com

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[masterblaster1978]

Wouldn't say it's a positive strike, cause i didn't hear the sound of it. Still a great capture

[FloridaLightning]

Believe me there is plenty of sound moments later... although sound has nothing to do with the fact that the bolt is positively or negatively charged.

[asflis]

@FloridaLightning Positive lightning has ALOT more explosive sounded thunder. :)

[FloridaLightning]

@asflis What you hear is not thunder as the thunder associated with the bolt is not a part of the video.

[sicilian12345]

absolutely, positive cloud to ground strikes are deadly.

They can contain up to 1,000,000,000 volts, 350,000 amperes and can strike more then 15 miles from a storm.

This type of lightning creates deafening pounding like thunder.

They form near the top of the storm where hail/ice and even snow is present which has a positive charge. Once the charge can no longer be insulated a stepped leader is formed and travels 66,000 miles a second which connects with a negative streamer from the ground.

[TheUtahraptor1]

@masterblaster1978 It came from the very top of the cloud, so im saying it is positive

[chargerfish1]

wow one of th branches looks like it was right near you, imaging if that branch hit the ground, the main strike would have been right next to you, that would have been LOUD and possibly fatal

[MultiKenny64]

@Assi2004 i think you dont know anything about lightning

[MelissaUndJonas25]

This is a really great capture of a powerful positive lightning, in slow motion you can see the characteristic flickering of a cloud-ground strike very good!

Very nice capture!!

[ralucagymnast]

Really really really incredible and so scary; I would have pood myself xD

[Thunderstruck738]

Definitely a positive bolt. I live in Darwin and see these all the time, they fly out of the storm from half to 3/4 the way up the Cb. Always violent explosive thunder with them and often well branched. Great bolt!

[OnnomonnomonnO]

MMMMM niice oneeee

[asflis]

@FloridaLightning I know that. I was just saying that thunder from positive or bipolar lightning has alot more powerful sound than from negative lightning.

And why did you stop recording, and miss out thunder, which is the second best part of lightning?

I really like your video :), but it pisses me off when people record lightning, and leave out thunder. You totally kill the spirit of that video.

Regards...