Watch: Rare ‘upside-down lightning’ noticed in Puerto Rico

A photographer Wednesday morning caught a uncommon phenomenon on video throughout thunderstorms in Puerto Rico. 

The phenomenon, generally known as a huge jet, is a Transient Luminous Event (TLE) and appears like upside-down purple lightning. 

It’s a uncommon factor to see in individual, not to mention seize on digicam. 

In the brief video clip, a fast little burst of purple flashed by way of the sky, earlier than shortly disappearing. 

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A huge jet captured on video in Puerto Rico. (Frankie Lucena through Storyful / FOX Weather)

NASA stated gigantic jets are seen by likelihood, and are a robust kind {of electrical} discharge that extends from the highest of a thunderstorm into the higher environment. 

A slowed-down model of the video confirmed the big jet, with a purpleish-pink hue on the base, earlier than flaring into brilliant purple branches within the sky. 

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A slowed model of video confirmed the big jet in full from the bottom. (Frankie Lucena through Storyful / FOX Weather)

“Gigantic jets appear when the turbulent conditions at towering thunderstorm tops allow for lightning to escape the thunderstorm, propagating upwards toward space,” NASA reported. 

In July, NASA astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers captured a photograph of a huge jet whereas aboard the International Space Station. 

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NASA astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers captured a surprising picture of a uncommon purple TLE generally known as a huge jet, above a thunderstorm across the Desert Southwest. (NASA astronaut Nichole “Vapor” Ayers / NASA)

For a short time, it was debated if what Ayers caught on digicam was a huge jet or one other TLE known as a sprite. 

Sprites can seem much like gigantic jets however happen a lot greater within the environment. NASA decided in August that the picture Ayers caught from the ISS was a huge jet.

More associated phenomenons embrace ELVEs, blue jets and ghosts, all of that are recognized TLEs, and happen effectively above Earth’s floor within the stratosphere, mesosphere and even the thermosphere.

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