The EUMETSAT satellite's sole job is to float around our planet and image thunderstorms in real time and this is the first video its operators have released. The animations reveal just how lighting spreads and could prove invaluable to some areas of the world without proper meteorological tools on the ground.
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00:00What you're seeing here is lightning, captured by the UmitStat satellite.
00:08Its sole job is to float around our planet and image thunderstorms in real time,
00:12and this is the first video its operators have released.
00:15The video is actually an animation of many images stitched together,
00:18showing not only storms in Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and South America,
00:22but also providing weather data about those specific storms to the affected areas,
00:26with the focus being providing data to areas of Africa which lack good ground-based meteorological tools in some areas.
00:32Lightning occurs when static charges build up in rain clouds, as high winds move water around within them.
00:37This causes electrons to be stripped away from that H2O, causing an electrical field to build,
00:41which eventually breaks the insulation of the atmosphere inside the cloud, before going boom.
00:46The animations from the new lightning tracking satellite are pretty incredible,
00:49and they reveal a different aspect with regards to the evolution of lightning storms.
00:53On the ground, what we see when lightning strikes is often a single bolt, followed by its thunder shortly after.
00:59However, from satellites designed to track lightning from space,
01:02the electric storms seem to reach and crawl across the affected area,
01:05looking more like a spreading fire when looking at them from a continental perspective.
01:10Be beautiful.
01:11See you soon.
01:14See you at the next few things.
01:19Are you missing?
01:20Are you missing?
01:23Please find your attention.
01:25Please follow us on the first part of in vindenisi DaisyƔrios.
01:27Pardon me, too.
01:30Okay.
01:31It lives within inēµéĆ¼nden Asia.
01:32You know, I did not come to comment and do not die cells
01:35We are missing.