The secrets of lightning

Beautiful and dangerous, lightning bolts are one of nature's most captivating and misunderstood phenomena. Correspondent David Pogue looks into some of the misconceptions about lightning; meets a woman who survived millions of volts coursing through her body; and talks with photographer Lori Bailey, who has captured brilliant, millisecond-long displays of lightning.
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  • @ljsmith2266
    @ljsmith22669 ай бұрын

    I have felt the energy from an approaching lightning storm too, from a balcony. There's NOTHING that compares, it's absolutely energizing and amazing!!!

  • @Debbie9038
    @Debbie90389 ай бұрын

    Last year, my chimney was struck by a ball of lightening. I also was electrocuted when it went through my house and all of my electronics. I was tingling for four days in my hands and feet. The reason for the strike on the chimney was the metal covering on the top to keep the birds out. In total we had 80,000.00 in damages to the house. New roof, no chimney anymore, new hot water heater, new furnace and a few new other essential items for everyday. I had to get a new television and router and new internet satellite dish. So glad I survived it. ❤

  • @fireengine77

    @fireengine77

    9 ай бұрын

    Wow! Glad you survived that!

  • @robertcuratolo5339

    @robertcuratolo5339

    9 ай бұрын

    ⚡⚡⚡

  • @heathercampbell4074
    @heathercampbell40749 ай бұрын

    Absolutely loved this segment!!

  • @LoriGraceAz

    @LoriGraceAz

    9 ай бұрын

    Had such a great time with David Pogue and the crew!

  • @DavidPogue

    @DavidPogue

    9 ай бұрын

    @@LoriGraceAz We love you, Lori!!

  • @maclac48
    @maclac489 ай бұрын

    That was absolutely beautiful. 4:49 😢

  • @angelinamclaughlin-heil
    @angelinamclaughlin-heil9 ай бұрын

    Those photos are beautiful!

  • @LoriGraceAz

    @LoriGraceAz

    9 ай бұрын

    thank you!

  • @Potawatomi_woman
    @Potawatomi_woman9 ай бұрын

    Found this video because I belong to this group. I survived strike to my head that traveled down my neck shoulder and right arm out my forearm.

  • @user-lp6xd7in8o
    @user-lp6xd7in8o8 ай бұрын

    That was absolutely beautiful. 4:49 . Those photos are beautiful!.

  • @libbyworkman3459
    @libbyworkman34599 ай бұрын

    If you notice where she’s taking the photographs of lightning, the bolts are coming down at the edge of the storm. I remember someone telling me one time about another person who had got struck by lightning on what was apparently a clear day- the bolt had come from pretty far away.

  • @Muhdah1972
    @Muhdah19729 ай бұрын

    Nkce to learn something new about lightning and to hear from strike survivors 😎👏

  • @karenbrown2135
    @karenbrown21359 ай бұрын

    The picture’s of the lightning bolts are absolutely beautiful.

  • @maxlinder5262
    @maxlinder52629 ай бұрын

    I still think .. Zeus ..does it..,. LoL 😂😆

  • @yvonneplant9434

    @yvonneplant9434

    9 ай бұрын

    A guy who lived in the 18th century didn't believe that kind of thing. 😂 I mean Franklin who did his kite and key experiment on June 10, 1752.

  • @___beyondhorizon4664

    @___beyondhorizon4664

    9 ай бұрын

    The weekend we had hurricane Hilary, I saw a bunch of lighting on the east horizon at around 4am, without any thundering sound. I tried to capture it on my phone 📱 but no luck, it was weird, because the bunch of lighting for 5 minutes without any thundering. P/S: I'm in southern California, hurricane Hilary just swing passed my area,it was just light rain 🌧️ all day last Saturday/Sunday, not even any trees brunches on the ground. By Tuesday, everything went back to normal, like nothing happened. We were lucky

  • @LaLadybug2011
    @LaLadybug20119 ай бұрын

    Great video CBS-thank you! If only I had professors like this Physicist...he explained things so well and quickly-my favorite part of the video. We need educators like him. I'll be sharing this video with my grandkids!

  • @steveconn
    @steveconn9 ай бұрын

    We used to get spectacular electrical storms in southern New Mexico (not so much anymore with climate change). At least still a few monsoons!

  • @ilovegoodsax

    @ilovegoodsax

    9 ай бұрын

    During my Air Force days in the early 80s, I was stationed in Eastern NM and very well remember summer evenings and the lighting in the clouds off in the distance.

  • @shawnrhyme5831
    @shawnrhyme58319 ай бұрын

    The video was alright, however what was falled to be mentioned is there are negative and positive lightning strikes. Position lightning strikes are very damaging to electronics, unless the electronics is on an isolation transformer.

  • @bryancash8251
    @bryancash82519 ай бұрын

    It took me 5 months and 6 storms to finally get a shot of lightning hitting the top of one World Trade Center. But boy was worth it

  • @amazingnike
    @amazingnike9 ай бұрын

    Once again congratulations to David and team for the video, it was shocking😂

  • @nancykahn4125
    @nancykahn41259 ай бұрын

    Alice Hoffman wrote “ The Ice Queen” , a fictional tale about people who were struck by lightning…a must-read…

  • @rubytuesdayphoenix

    @rubytuesdayphoenix

    9 ай бұрын

    great book

  • @methos-ey9nf
    @methos-ey9nf9 ай бұрын

    Car is by far the safest place to be unless your house has a lightning rod. Car body is a faraday cage.

  • @citizen3902
    @citizen39029 ай бұрын

    My paternal grandfather was struck and killed by lightening when I was one year old. They say he was a good man.

  • @florencemclaughlin3606

    @florencemclaughlin3606

    9 ай бұрын

    ohhh im so sorry.

  • @JaDaddy2438
    @JaDaddy24387 ай бұрын

    So beautiful and deadly. What I find fascinating is the different types of lightening across the country. I've seen fireballs shooting horizontally in Oklahoma, 10 streaks coming down at the same time miles apart in the Rockies, etc. Neat stuff

  • @danielnickerson5561
    @danielnickerson55619 ай бұрын

    I love lightning! We used to see a lot of lightning where I live but past couple of years the lightning has been lack luster!😢 I love loud and crazy ⚡ ooooooo ya 😊

  • @tomlineberger
    @tomlineberger9 ай бұрын

    Great video!! Thanks for sharing!!

  • @deannamadrigal7503
    @deannamadrigal75039 ай бұрын

    Great story! Thank you so much I am going to start following her

  • @LoriGraceAz

    @LoriGraceAz

    9 ай бұрын

    thank you!

  • @CuriousBean

    @CuriousBean

    9 ай бұрын

    Why are you referring to a whyte male as "her"?

  • @deannamadrigal7503

    @deannamadrigal7503

    9 ай бұрын

    @@CuriousBean did you not watch the segment? it was a lady who was taking the pictures of the lightning

  • @deannamadrigal7503

    @deannamadrigal7503

    9 ай бұрын

    @@CuriousBean and do you not see that she wrote me back and said thank you

  • @sevendegrees

    @sevendegrees

    9 ай бұрын

    @@CuriousBeanwhy are you so hateful? Did you not receive love as a child?

  • @rr7firefly
    @rr7firefly9 ай бұрын

    It's interesting how a lightning bolt looks a lot like the course of a river, as you would see it on a map. Rivers and lightning bolts are squiggly convoluted lines. Neither are straight lines.

  • @webbsurfer

    @webbsurfer

    9 ай бұрын

    It also looks like a branch of a tree, or a blood vessel in your body. It's all fractals.

  • @jakeriffle6719

    @jakeriffle6719

    9 ай бұрын

    Takes the path of least resistance just like water

  • @StevenGRoberts
    @StevenGRoberts9 ай бұрын

    Good morning 🌞

  • @RaymondHng
    @RaymondHng9 ай бұрын

    If it involves electricity, David Pogue is there.

  • @jairosoto9989
    @jairosoto99899 ай бұрын

    No mention of Catatumbo lighting. Interesting. Great content, though.

  • @dustdeviltaz
    @dustdeviltaz8 ай бұрын

    I seem to remember a polling done not too long ago of the people in the Oregon counties affected. The results were overwhelmingly against joining Idaho.

  • @campos3452
    @campos34529 ай бұрын

    Job 38:35 ‘Can you send out lightning bolts? Will they come and say to you, ‘Here we are!’

  • @thejamnasium6447

    @thejamnasium6447

    9 ай бұрын

    where you were when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare if thou hast understanding!

  • @AR47X420
    @AR47X4208 ай бұрын

    I’d be willing to bet that at least a few of those people are lying about being a lightning strike victim

  • @j.frankparnell6004
    @j.frankparnell60049 ай бұрын

    Ride the lightning

  • @lightningsurvivor1432
    @lightningsurvivor14329 ай бұрын

    Love AZ. Lightning is crazy here. My strike was in August 2014. During monsoon season up in mogollion.

  • @rogwarrior1018
    @rogwarrior10189 ай бұрын

    Our world is absolutely amazing.

  • @JaDaddy2438
    @JaDaddy24387 ай бұрын

    Basically static electricity. Like rubbing a balloon on your head

  • @user-wi1bi4bc5v
    @user-wi1bi4bc5v9 ай бұрын

    Striking🌠

  • @CLItoughtrigal
    @CLItoughtrigal9 ай бұрын

    What is heat lighting?

  • @1981lowrider

    @1981lowrider

    9 ай бұрын

    What you were seeing with heat lightning is actually lightning that is occurring within the cloud or between clouds. You are not directly seeing the lightning bolt, but the light that is diffusing through the water vapor of the cloud. Hope this helps.

  • @marvinmartin4692
    @marvinmartin46929 ай бұрын

    All the film footage shows lightning going from cloud to ground! Even in slow motion! I’ve yet to see it going from ground to cloud!

  • @florencemclaughlin3606

    @florencemclaughlin3606

    9 ай бұрын

    good point!!

  • @sicknado
    @sicknado9 ай бұрын

    i love lightning but I hate lightning

  • @LoriGraceAz

    @LoriGraceAz

    9 ай бұрын

    Haha, this is my experience too ! I guess I love it more but hate the fact it kills so many people.

  • @user-er3ri6sc3j
    @user-er3ri6sc3j9 ай бұрын

    Thunderbolts and lightning very very frightening me. Galileo....... Figaro.....manifico....

  • @debbiebasche5337

    @debbiebasche5337

    9 ай бұрын

    MaMa Mia !

  • @karenhousley610
    @karenhousley6109 ай бұрын

    "Think I better, knock on wood

  • @annasahlstrom6109
    @annasahlstrom61098 ай бұрын

    My Mom told me that thunder is the angels bowling.

  • @Wizardof
    @Wizardof8 ай бұрын

    Hotter than our sun...?

  • @juliam.mallen9019
    @juliam.mallen90199 ай бұрын

    Harnessing heat lightning is possible.

  • @Theantichryst
    @Theantichryst4 ай бұрын

  • @marccooper76
    @marccooper768 ай бұрын

    1:09 and 5:44 are really cool shots. 😎. Sunday morning is my favorite show

  • @jeromeglick
    @jeromeglick9 ай бұрын

    My grandparents' house was struck by lightning years ago. The bolt first struck their tree (which killed it) and from there it hit the house, making a cut in the wood siding. The whole house shook. We asked them if they would consider getting a lightning rod. Grandpa said he walked into a hardware store and an Amish man said, "Who needs a lightning rod when you have God to protect you?"

  • @OttoByOgraffey
    @OttoByOgraffey9 ай бұрын

    Uh, "Lori Bailey?"

  • @edwardvictormartin7511
    @edwardvictormartin75119 ай бұрын

    Part of it is Zeus doing it and is totally laughing at us and our reactions. 😁

  • @laurenchristianna2092

    @laurenchristianna2092

    8 ай бұрын

    Oya

  • @sonder007
    @sonder0079 ай бұрын

    That's a big woman

  • @vickioneal1401
    @vickioneal14019 ай бұрын

    When you hear the thunder count 1 Mississippi ect that tells you how close it is to you.

  • @joetursi9573

    @joetursi9573

    9 ай бұрын

    Not correct. Starting counting when you see the lightning and stop when you hear the thunder, Then multiply by the speed of sound to get distance.

  • @jeromeglick

    @jeromeglick

    9 ай бұрын

    I've heard that every 5 seconds equals approximately 1 mile in distance.

  • @RaymondHng

    @RaymondHng

    9 ай бұрын

    @@jeromeglick Sound travels at 1,125 feet per second. There are 5,280 feet in a mile. So every 4.69 seconds is a mile.

  • @JohnnyAngel8
    @JohnnyAngel89 ай бұрын

    Ugh.

  • @oldhickory4686
    @oldhickory46868 ай бұрын

    An interesting segment, until the dumbed down tattoos enter the picture...

  • @eicrusade6161
    @eicrusade61619 ай бұрын

    I'm so sick of doctors being so poorly educated.

  • @gordonschultz4788

    @gordonschultz4788

    9 ай бұрын

    That area of NC is pretty darn backwards. She should have driven an hour north to excellent doctors and hospitals in Raleigh or Durham or UNC-Chapel Hill.

  • @ericsynchrona5495
    @ericsynchrona54959 ай бұрын

    aliens

  • @FinalGateway
    @FinalGateway8 ай бұрын

    All of a sudden, LIGHTNING defined… after I captured the LINES OF LIGHT on my Instagram..

  • @robertskolimowski7049
    @robertskolimowski70499 ай бұрын

    Too little real education, too much cheap entertainment, too bad.

  • @philippesauvie639
    @philippesauvie6399 ай бұрын

    You lost me with the warming climate placement equals more lightning. 🥶

  • @LaLadybug2011

    @LaLadybug2011

    9 ай бұрын

    It's science and common sense as well-more heat creates more storms-storms have lightening. Good grief-nothing to do with politics. It's 3rd grade science about what makes clouds and how rainfall is part of that cycle of making more clouds.

  • @JohnnyNiteTrain

    @JohnnyNiteTrain

    9 ай бұрын

    What is climate placement?? Just call it climate change. The warming of the earth causes more extreme weather events…Not hard to understand. Hotter summers and colder winters. If you really need an explanation let me know.

  • @tuckerbugeater

    @tuckerbugeater

    8 ай бұрын

    oh look, you're so smart. You should study HAARP you science genius. @@LaLadybug2011

  • @tuckerbugeater

    @tuckerbugeater

    8 ай бұрын

    And I'm sure your don't know what HAARP and weather modification are. I bet they didn't teach that in your third grade class.@@bethanyjimenez8507

  • @V.Vaughan
    @V.Vaughan9 ай бұрын

    time to RIDE THE LIGHTNING BY METALLICA!

  • @sess122
    @sess1228 ай бұрын

    I was interested UNTILLL...they just HAD to throw in the "as the planet warms" bullshyte. Then it was "bye bye" for moi.

  • @tylers995
    @tylers9958 ай бұрын

    David - we love your stories but please please fact check. Lightning does not hit people 250,000 times a year. You are off by over 10x!!

  • @cMARVEL360
    @cMARVEL3609 ай бұрын

    I just couldn't take this segment Seriously. It looks more Politically Charged than about th actual Science. Just going with my Gut feeling on this one.

  • @tipsysmichigander6483
    @tipsysmichigander64839 ай бұрын

    0:18 - Really though sandwich on the dash? 2:05 - 3:08 - You literally just contradicted your original statement... 'Comes up from the ground and up to the cloud' then 'lightning has already traveled a couple miles from the cloud to the ground'. If you're going to be interviewed and recorded be consistent in your information.

  • @DavidPogue

    @DavidPogue

    8 ай бұрын

    There's no contradiction. The electrical charge (too dim to see) comes DOWN from the cloud... the FLASH (the light itself) generally climbs UPWARD along that path.