Red Sprites one more time (updated June 24 2024)

Documentary about Sprites on YouTube and Pinterest page

Previous blog entry on sprites, blue jets and elves 

Observations of streamer formation in sprites

Link on Archive.org (Geophysical Research Lett. Vol.34 (2007)

Optical imaging using a 10,000 frames per second high speed camerashows (Geophysical Research Lett. Vol.34 (2007)) that sprites are actually clusters of small, decameter-sized (10-100 m, 30-300 ft) balls of ionization that move downward, followed a few milliseconds later by a separate set of upward moving balls of ionization, and traveling up to ten percent of the speed of light.

(Link no longer found on Wikipedia) 

The plural of anecdote is data (still)

I saw a post on reddit (with a source) which now seems to be so downvoted I can no longer find it.  But it made me laugh.

http://blog.revolutionanalytics.com/2011/04/the-plural-of-anecdote-is-data-after-all.html

Evidence Based Science: Temperature, Rainfall and climate data

Evidence Based Science: Temperature, Rainfall and climate data

New blog all about climate science and weather and such

Evidence based Climate Science

I think climate science should be based on evidence

But I don't want to complicate this blog, so I took a leap.

New Evidence Based Science Blog

OMG what have I done?

Transient Luminous Events Update (Sprites, Jets and Elves)

Sprites, Jets and Elves

Fantastic pictures.

Dodo bird verdict

Never heard of this until 10 seconds ago.  (I blame the previous post).

An impressive set of references.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo_bird_verdict#References

Things not found on Wikipedia

While most of this blog won't be found on Wikipedia (actually not any of it) that didn't stop me from starting a blog about things not found on Wikipedia.

Mostly for fun, does not fall into the evidence based science realm.

The blog Evidence based medicine might.