They are very fast so 250.000 mph or ~ 400.000 km/h is possible as seen on super slow motion captures of lightning, where branching or lightning is well noticeable. For my surprise I found out that common negative to ground lightning (CG-) can reach current up to 30 - 120 kA and positive ones (CG+) up to 400 kA and can reach up to 40 - 60 km (25 - 38 mi) out of cloud. They are also super loud like bomb explosion or rolling heavy stones, last time when it stroke 600 - 700 metres (0.4 mile) far, it was quite loud :D
Once when I was younger, my mom and I were sitting in the garage watching a storm, with the garage door open. A lightning bolt struck the driveway directly infront of me, I still remember seeing nothing but light and almost going deaf from how loud the thunder was, and uncontrollably jumping back like 4 feet before crashing onto the ground.
Lightning struck our house in Houston once. The entire house lit up like God's flashlight was just chilling on the couch eating chips and dip, and every appliance turned off and the master breaker popped. Had to reboot the computer and screamed when I saw a lamp's light fill my field of view five minutes later. XD I was going blind at the time.
my neighbors chimney got struck by lightning in the middle of the day with not that much cloud coverage so it wasn’t dark out but it still lit up the area and sounded like a bomb went off
I could watch these all day and not Care what season it is... That being said, the weather channel doesn't get enough credit for the production time and thought they put into it.
What kind of CGI they usin- Like seriously this is the best CGI I have ever seen. Yes I know there is probably better CGI than this but this is really good CGI sometimes I think that it's real
There are some stormy days where the air itself feels electric, a dreadful tingle across the skin and hair. It's on these days I just stay indoors. Once as a kid, my hair was starting to raise up to the sky and my mom forced us all back inside. South Florida is not the place for a lightning magnet like me to be but here I am.
A friend of mine got electrocuted in her home, when she was vacuuming with one of those old, really loud metal Hoover vacuums. She had no idea there was a thunderstorm outside because she couldn't hear it over the vacuum, and when her house was struck, the lightening traveled through the walls, into the vacuum and into her. She survived, but was pretty burned.
These are great PSA's, maybe same some lives. I'll never forget the first time I saw a tree get hit by lightning, we were at least 50 yds away in my truck and wood was bashed against it, the tree was burning and we just looked at each other like WTH??? I've had two experiences with lightning and I don't want anymore, I was lucky both times, they were indirect, still unpleasant.
Had a bolt strike a small house 5 meters from me... Not only deafening... but you could feel the impact and electrical charge at that distance, i was in physical and mental shock, thought i was directly struck at first and had to mentally "restart" realising i was fine and then taking cover. So yeah... even a close one is not "lucky".
My father got struck by lightning when he was in 3th grade. He was standing in a baseball field near a metal fence when lightning struck the fence and traveled trough the ground towards him.
Caleb: What's your super power Me: I can stop or even reverse time... Caleb: Hey we can use someone like you Me: ...only when I'm in a weather forecast boardcast Caleb: Get out, get ouuuuuuuuuuuut.
@@mitchmattwilliamson516 me tho I was out on an unprotected porch being pelted with nickel size hail and some hard winds and im just sitting in that chair being pelted and soaked but i was enjoying the storm like "this is fine."
A few weeks or days ago I had a lightning strike which just make my entire see was just white, it was right out my moms window, it was i think a few meters away, it was in the street, I didn’t see the strike though. And then at 2PM during a storm I had a tornado sirens go off, a nofication was until 2:45PM
I’m loving these animations. They’re beautiful
_ TacoAmigo777 _ it’s real life not animated
Aaron Hampton It is animated. The makers of the video added simulations to make a very real effect.
I love them too
So realistic
Yea
That was my favorite light pole. Dammit Dave.
Miguel Quintero lol
Can't have shit in Detroit
Claudia Washington how dare you disrespect my favorite pole
God. Fucking damnit Dave.
lol
I love that it looks like the lightning is shining on him. Huge props to the team at TWC.
Don’t you agree with :8 ?
There’s a problem. You don’t have your indestructible safety circle ⭕️
he has the indestrucible safety weather report room
No he’s indestructible he wont die
mark eliot and milke bennets dont need them
This is why you need to stay in your basement
They probably ran out of budget for the grey circle lmfaoo
Why is this so fascinating 🙂
because learning is underrated :D
Oh no the Lightning run
This man legit said “it’s rewind time” when he reconstructed that tree
This new one is better than the real ones
This new one is better than the real ones
He has the time sfone... but its in his pocket
It’s a lamp light…
Why does this have less than One million views!?!? This is Amazing!!!
Because their facts are wrong, that's why!!!
@@iankravitz5723 Not always!
would you know, july 13th is a saturday
(deadliest month, unlucky number, deadliest day)
turns out, it was a shit show for completely different reasons.
Wait wait wait
July is the deadliest month? Gosh damnit another reason why I wish I wasn’t born in July-
Edit: Nevermind just watched the full video-
@@cageybee7221 wait what its been like 7-11 months what happened again
that’s my friends birthday, he confirms it’s a very unlucky day
Weather and Natural Disasters are already fascinating, but these animations make it a whole lot better, great job!
TWC has really stepped up the game. Your move, NBC.
Every one else: dives indoors for cover.
Me: runs outside to watch storm coming in.🤪
That is totally me it almost got me killed once 😅 but I still love a good storm
I love storms
Hello there👋
hi
I also wait for thunderstorms lol
Dude over 250,000 MPH?!?! And 1 BILLION bolts?? I never realized. Thank you Weather Channel! I'm learning for my school!
They are very fast so 250.000 mph or ~ 400.000 km/h is possible as seen on super slow motion captures of lightning, where branching or lightning is well noticeable. For my surprise I found out that common negative to ground lightning (CG-) can reach current up to 30 - 120 kA and positive ones (CG+) up to 400 kA and can reach up to 40 - 60 km (25 - 38 mi) out of cloud. They are also super loud like bomb explosion or rolling heavy stones, last time when it stroke 600 - 700 metres (0.4 mile) far, it was quite loud :D
Once when I was younger, my mom and I were sitting in the garage watching a storm, with the garage door open. A lightning bolt struck the driveway directly infront of me, I still remember seeing nothing but light and almost going deaf from how loud the thunder was, and uncontrollably jumping back like 4 feet before crashing onto the ground.
@titanic3037 hello sir how are you?
Lightning struck our house in Houston once. The entire house lit up like God's flashlight was just chilling on the couch eating chips and dip, and every appliance turned off and the master breaker popped. Had to reboot the computer and screamed when I saw a lamp's light fill my field of view five minutes later. XD I was going blind at the time.
0:15 i almost got an heart attack
same
my entire body hurts from jumping so hard lmfao
Same. But that's exactly how fast and unpredictable lightning is.
My tree got stuck by lightning at NIGHT I got so scared I started to cry lol
Lol its loud asf
my neighbors chimney got struck by lightning in the middle of the day with not that much cloud coverage so it wasn’t dark out but it still lit up the area and sounded like a bomb went off
Eric playz lol?
I really hope lightning doesn’t strike the tree in front of my house, it’s my favorite tree 🥺
@Eric playz I know I cried a bunch when I heard that at night
These animations are phenomenal, holy smokes. Whoever is editing these videos deserves a promotion
“Watch out for plumbing” *laughs in pvc pipe*
Water still conducts electricity bro
“Nothing like an Ice cream truck in the summer”
Unless you live in Iowa, where that thing was banned in the 50’s
barta235 back in the 50’s some girl got hit by one and they just banned the entire thing
That's about as stupid as the kinder egg ban
Zoee 329 I know right?
@@uriel_rod_ Real Americans wouldn't have made that asinine decision would they?
Mrsymphony why not fire the guy, stupid government
I LOVE THESE VIDEOS! They still give me jump scares like at the beginning of the video hahaha
0:19 when you sneeze in the middle of a lecture
0:18 thanks for flashbanging me and rupturing my eardrums
Love these CGI videos. Entertaining AND informative
I love the weather channel’s simulations
The weather channel teaches me more than my own science teacher
my science teacher showed us the flash flood one and this one.
Cgi, coolness and all, but what’s in my mind.... “TOUCH THAT FENCE, TOUCH THAT FENCE” i’d like some cgi to the reporter getting shocked.
I could watch these all day and not Care what season it is...
That being said, the weather channel doesn't get enough credit for the production time and thought they put into it.
the weather channel is simply the best
I've been watching this channel for months now, and I'm learning more on this channel than learning I'm learning school lmao
Really have to applaud the fact that these never get cheesy
Love these informative simulations
Weather has always excited me , this channel feeds my addiction
OMG DO MORE OF IM OBSESSED
What kind of CGI they usin- Like seriously this is the best CGI I have ever seen. Yes I know there is probably better CGI than this but this is really good CGI sometimes I think that it's real
Me watching this in July and it’s Saturday AND it’s gonna storm.
Me: 👁👄👁
Idk why im starting to enjoy these videos 😳
wow. did u hire hollywood animation professionals ?
It's the Unreal Engine 4.
I know tight animations are 10/10
0:28 Dormammu, I've come to bargain
I just cracked up laughing. Thank you!
😂😂
Here in KCMO he had a couple of thunder roars from 2017 to either last or 2019 that made the ground shake and load as hell!
0:00 aAAh, yEs.
0:19 wOah!1! oH maN! wHaT jUsT HappEnd ThERe?
Love your new style
honestly i learn more from these videos then actual school
Wow. Really well done graphics and explanation.
One of the good use cases of AR, keep up the good work :D
Cool the immersive reality love the butterflies at the end
I legit thought it was a wives' tale that you shouldn't shower during a lightning storm. If my grandmother was alive, I'd totally apologize lol
Excuse me? Why does the rewind animation look like Forza's rewind system lmao
He was so close to danger!!! I am never leaving without my grey circle! xD
Thanks Mike great presentation!
Excellent presentation.
There are some stormy days where the air itself feels electric, a dreadful tingle across the skin and hair. It's on these days I just stay indoors. Once as a kid, my hair was starting to raise up to the sky and my mom forced us all back inside. South Florida is not the place for a lightning magnet like me to be but here I am.
0:19 mind...blow 🤯, again.
Yeah if your that close to a tree that gets struck by lightning your dead. XD
these animations are so fun to watch
Yea...youre right! 🤔 July seems like a great month to spend indoors! 🤗
0:19 0:28 *Power Pole goes boom*
Mike Bettes: *Whoa!* *Oh man!* *What just happened there?* *That was crazy!*
I don’t know how good they are at editing
That power line is history. ⛈️
0:19: WHAT THE HELL?!
Tree goes boom
Florida : *is the most deadliest state for storms, tornados, lighting strikes, etc etc.
0:28 ok calm down there Doctor Strange
This is so awesome and educational
A friend of mine got electrocuted in her home, when she was vacuuming with one of those old, really loud metal Hoover vacuums. She had no idea there was a thunderstorm outside because she couldn't hear it over the vacuum, and when her house was struck, the lightening traveled through the walls, into the vacuum and into her. She survived, but was pretty burned.
Enjoyed this!
This is like the fifth time I have heard Wakko’s America on an ice cream truck
0:18 that gave me a heart attack
I Adore the graphics! 😊😊😊😊😊😍😍
These are great PSA's, maybe same some lives. I'll never forget the first time I saw a tree get hit by lightning, we were at least 50 yds away in my truck and wood was bashed against it, the tree was burning and we just looked at each other like WTH??? I've had two experiences with lightning and I don't want anymore, I was lucky both times, they were indirect, still unpleasant.
Did I just watched all the CGIs of Weather Channel?
Woah!
its made from unreal engine but there is a bit of cgi
Knomolol how did you do your profile bro?
It’s a loop right?
@@JosephBenedictMaguddayaoTe ?
Physics': **Exists**
Mike: "Imma bout to end this mans career"
I love the weather and science ☀⛅☁⚡❄🌀🌈
I Love Lightning/Thunder, you know thunder is just as loud as a lion roar, plus I reminded myself about Thor Love and Thunder
he's not even staying on a circle! the mad man!!
There's no grey circle
I demand the Grey circle to return 👁👄👁
Only if we were taught like this at school.......💪💪💪
The main reason I fear lighting is because it fried my entire computer setup once... surge protector and all.
RIP my good little iMac.
Nobody:
Weather boy: “oBLIterate the wood”
1:58 - Mike Bettes was right about lightning striking well away from the storm.
Keenly these are called "bolt from the blue" lightning strikes.
It's hotter than the sun and we still survived it too we must be gods
"Lightning travels at over 250,000 mph"
Speed of light in a vacuum being 181,000 mph: Am I a joke to you?
186,000 mi/second
@@krane15 fuuuuuuuuuuuuck im stupid lol
These graphics are amazing.
People who have been struck by lightning: "are you sure about that?"
"The deadliest month and day is July on a Saturday."
me watching on a saturday in july: OH NO
Yea we are fucked
Had a bolt strike a small house 5 meters from me...
Not only deafening... but you could feel the impact and electrical charge at that distance, i was in physical and mental shock, thought i was directly struck at first and had to mentally "restart" realising i was fine and then taking cover.
So yeah... even a close one is not "lucky".
I know Mike Bettes. He was almost killed in the El Reno tornado in 2013
This is mike?
@@peachxtaehyung yep.
i have been strik by lighting i am being verey aware of thunder storms but i still love them
My father got struck by lightning when he was in 3th grade.
He was standing in a baseball field near a metal fence when lightning struck the fence and traveled trough the ground towards him.
This is a luxury circle which has extra space and comes with a giant premium quality tv built into the wall
Caleb: What's your super power
Me: I can stop or even reverse time...
Caleb: Hey we can use someone like you
Me: ...only when I'm in a weather forecast boardcast
Caleb: Get out, get ouuuuuuuuuuuut.
The ice cream van is a GMC Value Van, also known as a Chevrolet Step Van. Pretty much used as a common goods truck, like this ice cream van.
The sexiest weather man! That is all.
you start out irish then suddenly turn american "ahh the heart of summer"
*Lightning strikes*
*BWAH!*
God Damnit Bobby
0:19 Lightning jumpscare warning
Very Educational 👍👍
"And they can ruin your outdoor plans"
Yes, if im swimming.
Otherwise i really don't care cuz ITS A STORM AND I LOVE STORMS.
Look at me I was out side in Boston during a little flooding
@@mitchmattwilliamson516 me tho
I was out on an unprotected porch being pelted with nickel size hail and some hard winds and im just sitting in that chair being pelted and soaked but i was enjoying the storm like "this is fine."
2:24
as dangerous as this is if these where fences HOOK ME UP!
A few weeks or days ago I had a lightning strike which just make my entire see was just white, it was right out my moms window, it was i think a few meters away, it was in the street, I didn’t see the strike though. And then at 2PM during a storm I had a tornado sirens go off, a nofication was until 2:45PM
ROARRRRR (the lighting strike has destroyed the tree boss.) 0:19
Actually the lightning strike had destroyed the lamp post at 0:19 not the tree boss
When i hear a thurderstrom and im outside: ah shit here again
He walks away like a boss!
Him: Its Time For Summer!!
Me: DanG iM HoT iN MY AiR ConDitons HoUsE
him:OwO UwU