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Hello Carl,
I have seen St. Elmo's fire when driving during a thunderstorm in the UK. It manifested on the top of the radio antenna on the car bonnet (hood), a beautiful blue coronal glow. Vey much a once in a lifetime experience.
Regards.
Phillip.
 

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On Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 17:05, Carl <cn8@xxxxxxx> wrote:
 

Ball lightning terminology--we are talking about ball lightning in this 
thread.  St. Elmo's fire is totally different.  It is a corona discharge on 
a tall object due to the electric field from an overhead thunderstorm.  I 
have never seen it (major life bummer) but it apparently looks about like 
Tesla coil streamers, but directed upward and not so active.  I once heard 
it from the top of a flagpole--a series of pulses or a low tone varying in 
pitch, changing abruptly when lightning struck anywhere in the area.  It was 
daytime, so I couldn't see a discharge.  Generally speaking, if St. Elmo's 
fire is present in your immediate environment, you are in major trouble.  I 
have no idea who St. Elmo was, but apparently the name was given by mariners 
on the old sailing ships when the corona appeared on the rigging and mast 
tops.  It would be really cool to see it, subject of course to the caveat 
two sentences ago.

---Carl






-----Original Message----- 
From: mddeming@xxxxxxx
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:17 AM
To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [TCML] Ball Lightning

Fascinating.
"Be careful when drawing conclusions from a single observation." - Ms Ruth 
Hennessy 1957
(my 8th grade science teacher)

Matt D




-----Original Message-----
From: dave pierson <dave_p@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tesla <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:13 am
Subject: [TCML] Ball Lightning, actually  Re:  Geek Group HV Fire



> Can you revisit this link, the article is mixed up with another
> causing a confused mess.

Here's another link, same report.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/science/scientists-accidentally-capture-ball-lightning-proving-it-to-be-a-true-natural-phenomena-not-an-optical-illusion/story-fni0c0qs-1226806565419

  Casual google news search on

     ball lightning

  will return a manyness of references.

  best
   dwp
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