“Storm elves and sprites recorded on video“. Charles Rotter copies and pastes “Storm elves and sprites recorded on video“, a random science news release from Eureka Alert. More lazy generic science posts to prove that Anthony Watts’ blog isn’t strictly about denying climate change.

Elves, sprites and blue jets associated with electrical storms. Credit: Danish National Space Center

Spanish researchers have recorded fleeting and luminous electric phenomena, called elves and sprites, produced in storms the upper layers of the atmosphere. Their analysis of these observations, made with high-speed equipment, has been published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.