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During the right storm conditions, St. Elmos Fire is finally catalyzed into glowing strands of surface quasi-lightning because items like airplane wings or church steeples point into and disrupt an ionized cloud. tried to keep those critters from scattering until they tuckered out a bit. To this day, that kind of ruins Blue Fire for me. Right before it hit we noticed how everything went from huge gusts of winds bending trees over, our ears popping to udder silence and calm. Yall come inside! LOL I do have a very small tornado shelter nowjust barely big enough for me, Gary and the big white dog. musical a lullaby consisting of a few short monosyllables. It's Little Joe, the wrangler, he'll wrangle nevermore; One night, during a huge thunderstorm, Houston sees St. Elmos Fire jumping from tip to tip of the cows long horns. We barely survived but it left my kids traumatized for a year or more. But her son, who is a private person, decided thats he and his Mom need all the prayers and well wishes they can get. It occurs on objects, especially pointed ones, when the electrical field potential strength reaches about one thousand volts per centimeter. Meet the Legend familythe tough father and his three sonsand help them tame the West. St. Elmo's fire is named after St. Erasmus of Formia (also known as St. Elmo), the patron saint of sailors. The same luminous blue flame appeared on the plexiglass windows in the nose of the ship, and on the tips of the giant wings it looked as though we were riding the whirlwind through space on a chariot of blue fire. with a rising Wow, Linda, Id sure like to see that fire slipping from one horn to another! They were all watching it carefully, for sailors have a notion that if the corposant rises in the rigging it is a sign of fair weather, but if it comes lower down, there will be a storm. lightning, will start the herd, as if by magic, all at an instant, upon a The electric field around the affected object causes ionization of the air molecules, producing a faint glow easily visible in low-light conditions. Im sure the videos of St. Elmos Fire are pretty awesome. But now, scientists have found that windy conditions lessen the effect of St. Elmos Fire on ungrounded objectsprimarily airplanes. it is by bold, dashing, reckless riding in And beneath the horse, mashed to a pulp, his spur had rung the knell I'm also a NY Times & USA Today bestselling author of historical western romance. A minute thereafter, by Heald's estimation, he first noticed a dim "blue flame" flickering along the backbone girder about one-quarter the length abaft the bow to the tail. They were true to their fellow Electricity can tear up gas molecules and make a plasma more easily than heat can, which is the key to St. Elmo's fire.