{"id":11444,"date":"2017-09-02T16:17:38","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T21:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11444"},"modified":"2017-09-02T16:17:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T21:17:38","slug":"dont-blink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/02\/dont-blink\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Blink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Spaceweather.com<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/archive.php?view=1&amp;day=01&amp;month=09&amp;year=2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> on <em>sprites<\/em> &#8211; an upper atmosphere lightning phenomenon &#8211; and what may be a new variant.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">A NEW KIND OF SPRITE? <\/span><\/strong>Barely 30 years ago, many researchers did not believe that upper atmospheric lightning existed\u2014until 1989 when researchers from the University of Minnesota captured them on video tape. Now there is a menagerie of accepted forms: sprites, elves, gigantic jets, gnomes. These &#8220;transient luminous events&#8221; (TLEs) appear above thunderclouds, reaching toward space rather than lancing down to the ground like regular lightning.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug.14th, Thomas Ashcraft may have spotted a new kind of sprite. &#8220;I was photographing a cluster of sprites over a thunderstorm in western Oklahoma when something curved snaked up behind the main cluster.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sprite and unidentified feature - August 14 2017 - A &amp;quot;Funnel Sprite&amp;quot;?\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/229598597?h=29c731ba4f&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"492\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaceweather.com reports on sprites &#8211; an upper atmosphere lightning phenomenon &#8211; and what may be a new variant. A NEW KIND OF SPRITE? Barely 30 years ago, many researchers did not believe that upper atmospheric lightning existed\u2014until 1989 when researchers from the University of Minnesota captured them on video tape. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/02\/dont-blink\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11446,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11444\/revisions\/11446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}