Skylapse.org: Slow Motion Lightning

Tom Warner of ZT Research has documented lightning "anatomy" using photographic equipment that can record up to 100,000 framers per second. The video below is an excellent teaching source, revealing the stepped leader in all its glory.

Additional videos may be found on his website here. Animated gifs of similar perspectives may be found on this NWS site. Also, NASA has the same video as above with a bit of context.

Purpose

The skylapse.org blog is a collection of video embeds, animated gifs, and other illustrations that reveal atmospheric features that may be normally subtle or elusive in real-time, but come to life when the time-lapse technique is applied. The sole intention of creating the blog was to generate a library of ready-to-use visual atmospheric illustrations for pedagogical purposes. While some of the imagery in the blog is my own, most are derived from video sharing sites and, subsequently, embedded or hyperlinked. Please use the "labels" feature below to quickly find examples of phenomena.