Has anyone heard of a Sprite before?

yellowlabrador

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-23504254

Rare atmospheric phenomenon over Armagh

This seems to have taken place over Dublin. Would you be able to see this from the ground?

Popoutman

I've seen a sprite from the ground, years ago. Large thunderstorm cell, about 40km distant, underside hidden behind mountains. Very late dusk in about September, mostly dark adapted as I was out in the countryside since sunset. I saw one flash of lightning and a no-too-dim flash above the cloud. The light above the cloud was seen with averted vision. No colour noted, but there wasn't any high cirrus clouds around and I did note that the flash wasn't a single wide flash, but appeared to have an illumination front that moved upwards from the cloud. The fact it was not a flash but had movement in the extent of illumination was something that bothered me until years later when I saw the video of sprites - reminding me of what I saw that late summer's evening.

I'm fairly sure that what I saw was a sprite. Certainly open to interpretation, but it's the most likely cause of what I saw.

kwik

Ive heard of them. Ive never seen one. There was a program on nat geo a while back about them. Apparently there ten times bigger than a normal lightning strike.

Red Nissan

Sprites were first observed from Space, I believe, changed the relationship we had understood with electricity and storms where weather was confined to the troposphere.

kingshankly

It's a poor mans 7 up

Red Nissan

kingshankly wrote: »

It's a poor mans 7 up

I think you have to reevaluate that statement, like Seven Up is like 70c while sprite is more like €2.80 for similar volumes.

So I am poor, on Job Seekers, so I buy a drink like how many times more expensive, I guess, if I could figure it out I'd not be out of work.