Meteorologists call them 'gigantic jets' — powerful and vanishingly rare trees of lightning that contain 50-times more energy than the typical lightning bolt.A Puerto Rico-based photographer documented this little-seen weather phenomenon late last month, August 20th, while documenting the tropical storm then developing westward into Hurricane Franklin.Gigantic jets, much the related electrical phenomenon of 'red sprites,' gain their crimson hue from contact with Earth's ionosphere 50 to 400 miles above sea level.
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