Red Sprites (Noun)
Meaning
Atmospheric electricity (lasting 10 msec) appearing as globular flashes of red (pink to blood-red) light rising to heights of 60 miles (sometimes seen together with elves).
Classification
Nouns denoting natural phenomena.
Examples
- Atmospheric researchers spent years tracking red sprites in conjunction with lightning storms to understand their dynamics.
- Above an intense thunderstorm, an array of high-altitude red sprites appeared to flash like globular jewels against the night sky.
- Unlike their brighter and shorter-lived blue cousins, the Elves, red sprites exhibited reddish hues while propagating vertically at approximately 10 kilometers per second.
- Upper-atmospheric activity specialists successfully identified concurrent displays of both sprites and Elves at sixty and hundred kilometer heights, triggered by gigantic updrafts and unusual lower cloud discharge systems.
- Sprites with exceptional visibility during specific intervals that permitted easy timekeeping reached levels nearing or crossing ninety kilometers; especially interesting ones occurred red as streaking filaments appeared also forming that complex whole when taking forms less standard; especially such unique elongations they kept through varying long a minute till beyond complete faint like far bright brief blazing one other occurrence same colors displaying new diverse examples several sightings since given unusual more their activity.scalablytyped