#lightning

sixpenceee:

Crazy lighting bolt in Tampa. (Source)

sixpenceee:

A beautiful thunderstorm in Maroochydore, Queensland (Australia)

sixpenceeeaesthetic:

Lightening and hands.

just–space:

Red Sprite Lightning over the Andes : What are those red filaments in the sky? They are a rarely seen form of lightning confirmed only about 30 years ago: red sprites. Recent research has shown that following a powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strike, red sprites may start as 100-meter balls of ionized air that shoot down from about 80-km high at 10 percent the speed of light. They are quickly followed by a group of upward streaking ionized balls. The featured image was taken earlier this year from Las Campanas observatory in Chile over the Andes Mountains in Argentina. Red sprites take only a fraction of a second to occur and are best seen when powerful thunderstorms are visible from the side. via NASA

Y así, como un impacto, hazme llegar al clímax sintiendo tu roce paralizante en todo mi cuerpo.

cenchempics:

Thunder stone.

A lightning strike in the Mauritanian desert left behind these fulgurites. Despite the way they look, they’re not so different from the sand they’re sitting on. Fulgurites are a mineraloid—a mostly noncrystalline mineral-like substance—made when lightning discharges into sand or soil. The lightning melts and fuses the silicon dioxide that makes up the sand, forming the fulgurites, which are similar to glass. The lightning hits the sand with so much energy that it can create certain silicon dioxide structures that are otherwise seen only in meteorites.

Credit: Ji-Elle/Wikimedia Commons.

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I’m still chipping away at these dice! I’m a liiittle torn between the light and dark versions, though.