Charles Trueblood

I've been trying to post a video with no luck. Here it is. I have no idea what it is. (It's not lightning.) Thx

Your video is showing fine here Charles, where did you wish to put it.  I think you are correct it looks like lightening.  Great capture, hard little fellas to get a good shot.  Well done, try and put it where you wanted it as you have succeeded here.  If you still have problems get back to me.  Cheers Karyn

I was so intrigued by your email I checked it out on a science page.  Initially I too thought lightening does not go from ground up but it appears to be normal.

Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up? The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts.

 

Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up?

The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts. Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge. Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zips back up to the sky. It is the return stroke that produces the visible flash, but it all happens so fast - in about one-millionth of a second - so the human eye doesn't see the actual formation of the stroke.

Source: National Severe Storms Laboratory

So I can say I have learned something important today.  Thank you.