Electric-blue clouds and lightning

Every summer, high above the North pole clouds of water vapor rise to the top of the atmosphere and kristallizuetsya around meteor smoke. As a result, noctilucent clouds, which are often described by observers as "electric-blue" as their color reminiscent of a spark.

Laura Cranitch from Kiel in Germany managed to capture noctilucent clouds together with the present electricity at night in the sky was raging thunderstorms. Noctilucent clouds appeared over thunderclouds, when lightning struck the ground.

Previous studies have shown that noctilucent clouds sometimes exacerbated during solar minimum and now operate in such conditions. It can be the cause so early in their appearance in these latitudes. Earlier they were observed in Poland — according to forecasts, the clouds should appear over Northern Europe. But in the end the silver clouds shone in the sky far to the South.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»