Photographer Uğur İkizler stitched together all the lightning that occurred over 50 minutes during a violent thunderstorm into one photo.
The photo captures at least three types of lightning during a thunderstorm. Photo: Uğur İkizler
A photographer captured a time-lapse image of more than 100 lightning strikes during a thunderstorm in Türkiye. Astrophotographer Uğur İkizler created the impressive image by combining multiple frames of the sky near his home in the coastal town of Mudanya, collected over 50 minutes at midnight on June 16, meaning a lightning strike occurred every 30 seconds on average.
"Each of those lightning bolts is beautiful, but when I combine them all in one frame, the scene is terrifying. The thunderstorm is a visual feast," İkizler shared.
At least three different types of lightning are visible in the photo, including cloud-to-cloud, cloud-to-ground, and cloud-to-water, according to Spaceweather.com . It's not uncommon for multiple lightning strikes to occur during a thunderstorm. Worldwide , there are 1.4 billion lightning strikes each year, or 3 million per day and 44 per second, according to the Met Office.
Each individual lightning bolt has a voltage of 100 million to 1 billion volts. That much energy can raise the temperature of the surrounding air to between 10,000 and 33,000 degrees Celsius, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). For comparison, the surface temperature of the sun is only 5,500 degrees Celsius.
The new image shows the characteristic zigzag shape of lightning. Researchers still don’t know exactly what causes this zigzag shape, but a 2022 study found that it’s the result of a highly conductive form of static oxygen that builds up unusually as lightning strikes the ground.
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