Can a lightning bolt hit a rainbow?

A 'one in a million' moment was caught on camera when a bolt of lightning struck the curve of a rainbow. Steven Miller had been teaching a personal training class in his garden in Wrexham, North Wales when the storm struck near his home.
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Can lightning strike through a rainbow?

Rainbow lightning is a rare as the chances of lightning striking near a rainbow are slim, explained Randall Cerveny, a professor of meteorology at Arizona State University in Tempe. 'Usually, you don't get those two things to line up at the same time,' he said in a 2015 Live Science piece.
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What does a rainbow lightning bolt mean?

Using an Emoji Charge is a great way to build up the power of a specific emoji, similar to collecting a duplicate emoji. When there is an Emoji Charge available for an emoji, it will appear as a rainbow-colored lightning bolt on the emoji's info card.
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What is the rarest color of lightning?

Green lightning is a rare phenomenon that can be seen during a thunderstorm. Someone who has seen green lightning is extremely lucky as green lightning strikes are rarely seen. It is so rare that the only photograph of a green lightning strike is one from when the Chaiten volcano in Chile erupted.
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What can a lightning bolt destroy?

A single bolt of lightning can instantly destroy most electronic components in a household or office building, such as computers, alarm system, specialized machinery, appliances and other electronics.
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he thought he could control a lightning strike.. (HUGE MISTAKE!)



Can lightning give you superpowers?

A variety of or a random power can be bestowed to the victim. The lightning strike may cause maximum enhancements of a normal human being. The lightning can be used to activate or deactivate inherent abilities. The lightning may also remove or prevent the abilities of a person.
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Is lightning hotter than the sun?

In fact, lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the sun).
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What color is savitar's lightning?

Also, the armor is capable of changing the color of a speedster's lightning as the armor changed Savitar's lightning from yellow to white.
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What is Spider lightning?

Spider lightning refers to long, horizontally traveling flashes often seen on the underside of stratiform clouds. Spider lightning is often linked to +CG flashes.
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Is red lightning real?

Red lightning doesn't exist in the literal sense, according to the National Weather Service. The closest known phenomena is something called a red sprite, which occurs high in the atmosphere “directly above an active thunderstorm,” NOAA says.
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Is Orange lightning real?

Red lightning within a cloud indicates the presence of rain. Yellow or orange lightning occurs when there is a large concentration of dust in the air. White lightning is a sign of low humidity or a little amount of moisture in the air.
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Are there different colors of lightning?

Upon striking an object or the ground, the lightning is usually red or orange color. The most common color is white, but lightning bolts can also appear blue, yellow, violet, and even green. Different colors of lightning offer information about the thunderstorm and weather conditions.
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What is red lightning?

Sprites, also known as red lightning, are electrical discharges that appear as bursts of red light above clouds during thunderstorms.
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Why is the lightning green?

Green lightning does indicate that the cloud is extremely tall, and because thunderclouds are the tallest clouds, green is a warning sign that large hail or a tornado is on the way. Green lightning has only been photographed once when the Chaiten volcano in Chile erupted. Spewing an ash cloud into the atmosphere.
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Can lightning curve?

Leaders can split, forming tree-like branches resulting in a path that is not a straight line. Most lightning appears jagged because of this, but it also can take a curved path, as in this photograph. As the negative charges approach the ground, there is an upward stream of positive charges.
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What is a rainbow scientific explanation?

A rainbow is caused by sunlight and atmospheric conditions. Light enters a water droplet, slowing down and bending as it goes from air to denser water. The light reflects off the inside of the droplet, separating into its component wavelengths--or colors. When light exits the droplet, it makes a rainbow.
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What is the rarest type of lightning?

ball lightning, also called globe lightning, a rare aerial phenomenon in the form of a luminous sphere that is generally several centimetres in diameter. It usually occurs near the ground during thunderstorms, in close association with cloud-to-ground lightning.
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What are the 4 types of lightning?

Types of Lightning
  • Cloud-to-Ground (CG) Lightning.
  • Negative Cloud-to-Ground Lightning (-CG) ...
  • Positive Cloud-to-Ground Lightning (+CG) ...
  • Cloud-to-Air (CA) Lightning. ...
  • Ground-to-Cloud (GC) Lightning. ...
  • Intracloud (IC) Lightning.
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What is dark lightning?

Dark lightning is a burst of gamma rays produced during thunderstorms by extremely fast moving electrons colliding with air molecules. Researchers refer to such a burst as a terrestrial gamma ray flash.
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Why did zooms lightning turn red?

The reasons for this coloration is unknown. Red: Red lightning is typically the result of a speedster having a connection to the Negative Speed-Force, which Eobard Thawne created at some point after recreating the Flash's powers. Red lightning is seen in Eobard himself as well as Edward Clariss/Rival.
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What color is Godspeed lightning?

White lighting was used (according to Boothe) when speedsters were speeding up time. So white lightning was super fast, like Godspeed, who was so fast that he was able to be in two places at once.
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Which speedster has purple lightning?

The finale confirmed what fans had already guessed based on the clues: she was Barry and Iris's child from the future, Nora West-Allen. Iris's purple lightning in episode 16 was thus a way for the show's creative team to hint a connection between Iris and the mystery girl.
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What is the hottest thing in the universe?

The hottest thing in the Universe: Supernova

The temperatures at the core during the explosion soar up to 100 billion degrees Celsius, 6000 times the temperature of the Sun's core.
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What is the hottest thing on Earth?

The hottest thing that we know of (and have seen) is actually a lot closer than you might think. It's right here on Earth at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). When they smash gold particles together, for a split second, the temperature reaches 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit. That's hotter than a supernova explosion.
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Can lightning travel underground?

Lightning can strike up to 2 miles away and travel through underground streams and water pipes into your home.
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