Jorge Torres is the weekday afternoon meteorologist on ABC15.
PHOENIX — Sunday night was an eventful one in the Valley as storms lit up the skies overhead, including an atmospheric phenomenon other than the numerous lightning strikes.Email us: [email protected] resident Michelle Giesemann recorded the storms outside her West Valley home and noticed red flashes above the clouds. That's when she realized she caught something rarely captured on camera: a red sprite.
"I saw it and I was like, was that a red sprite? It's something I've never seen before," Giesemann stated. A sprite, according to the American Meteorological Society, is usually a red flash of light that shoots upwards into the sky above thunderstorms. Sprites predominately happen when powerful positive cloud-to-ground lightning strikes occur, which originate from the top of thunderstorm clouds as opposed to the bottom. Sprites only last a few milliseconds, so capturing them on camera isn't common.
"I did a little bit of research, looked up 'red flash in sky from thunderstorm' and ended up finding out it was ."Watch ABC15 live:
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