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Illustration of St. Elmo's fire on a ship at sea Electrostatic discharge flashes across the windscreen of a KC-10 cockpit.. St. Elmo's fire (also called witchfire or witch's fire) [1] is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a rod-like object such as a mast, spire, chimney, or animal horn [2] in an atmospheric electric field.
Pilots evacuating in preparation for Hurricane Idalia observed bright blue light outside their aircraft, an event called St. Elmo’s fire. Here’s what causes it.
St. Elmo's Fire and normal sparks both can appear when high electrical voltage affects a gas. St. Elmo's fire is seen during thunderstorms when the ground below the storm is electrically charged, and there is high voltage in the air between the cloud and the ground. The voltage tears apart the air molecules and the gas begins to glow.
Some ghost lights such as St. Elmo's fire or the shiranui have been explained as optical phenomena of light emitted through electrical activity. Other types may be due to combustion of flammable gases, ball lightning , meteors , torches and other human-made fires, the misperception of human objects, and pranks.
The Royal Air Force’s 99 Squadron has released a video showing the phenomenon known as St Elmo’s Fire developing at the nose of a C-17 Globemaster plane during a recent nighttime flight near ...
The actor also teased what his character, saxophonist Billy Hicks, has been up to since the end of the original film. "As you remember, at the end of St. Elmo's Fire, he got on a bus to New York ...
Related: St. Elmo's Fire actors look back at movie that defined a generation Lowe had been in several movies (starting with The Outsiders) by the time of St. Elmo's Fire, but the Joel Schumacher ...
The events of the story are centered on a Japanese solar power plant based in the planet Mercury called "Saint Elmo". Its name was based on the rare scientific phenomenon called St. Elmo's fire, named after Erasmus of Formiae. This phenomenon occurs in electrical weather at which high points (like masts on ships) will charge and give off a glow.