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Photographer captures stunning stack photo of a lightning strike
One photographer reportedly captured a stunning stack photo of a lightning storm. The incredible image was taken in the Klang Valley in Malaysia by photographer Fendy Gan.
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The image, a marvel in its own right, is a compilation of 32 individual shots snapped over the course of 40 minutes. It captures a startling lightning storm shot above the city of Kuala Lumpur.
“I just set my camera on interval shooting and merged the results with photoshop,” Gan told Newsweek.
“We get plenty of lightning most of the year. But this particular storm was extra special because of how clear the sky was and how frequent the strikes were,” Gan said.
Malaysia has one of the highest lightning strike frequencies in the world
Lightning strikes in Malaysia are a very common occurrence due to the country’s tropical climate and location. Malaysia’s thunderstorms are spectacular, violent, and very frequent. The Klang Valley reportedly has an average of 240 days of thunderstorms in a year.
“I believe Klang Valley has some of the highest lightning strike frequencies in the world,” Gan told the outlet.
Lightning is an electrical discharge caused by imbalances between storm clouds and the ground, or within the clouds themselves.
How lightning occurs
Lightning can be explained in terms of charges produced due to rubbing. In the case of lightning, the objects are moisture molecules and ice crystals in clouds.
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During a thunderstorm, the air currents move upwards and the water droplets move downwards. And this is caused due to the separation of charge due to this vigorous motion. As a result of this process, the positive charges collect near the upper edge and the negative charges accumulate near the lower edge of the cloud and also near the ground.
As the charge gets accumulated, its magnitude becomes very large. Water droplets in the air act as a conductor of this charge. These charges flow to meet, thus producing strikes of lightning and thunder. For this phenomenon to occur, a sufficiently high electric potential between two regions and a high resistance medium must be present.
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