What Are These Red Flashes In The Sky? - Videos from The Weather Channel
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What Are These Red Flashes In The Sky?

April 4, 2025

High above Pumoyongcuo Lake on the Tibetan Plateau, astrophotographers Angel An and Shuchang Dong captured over 100 rare red sprites in a single night. These fleeting electrical discharges, triggered by high-peak current lightning, illuminated the sky above a massive thunderstorm stretching from the Ganges Plain to Tibet’s foothills. This rare and breathtaking event in 2022, now the focus of a groundbreaking study, showcases one of South Asia’s most spectacular sprite displays ever recorded.