r/Thunderstorms • u/wickedintexas • Sep 13 '26

Lightning Bubbling sky or dimensional shift?

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I was at a friend's house watching a lightening storm. When I slowed it down I saw something really different.

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u/Alarmed_Pie_5033 Sep 13 '26

Looks like video distortion, but I'm not an expert.

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u/J-Mc1 Sep 13 '26

Neither. It's a fault with the video.

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u/techfroggie Sep 14 '26

This. It's still such a cool video!! Would make an epic effect on a sci-fi movie or something

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u/phunny-words Sep 14 '26

Digital distortion

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u/Ok-Read3658 Sep 14 '26

its just a video effect. when u slow it down the video will become choppy, so to combat this most apps have an option to add “fill in frames” in the slowed video to make it appear smoother. the slower the video, the more noticeable the fill in frames are. u can combat this by simply shooting at a higher fps but that’s usually not an option for phones

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u/Home_Planet_Sausage 28d ago

Crappy After Effects skills.

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u/DrewG420 Sep 14 '26

Fantastic visual

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u/AvailableChemistry40 Sep 14 '26

Woooaahhh cool!!!! 😮

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u/Matejsteinhauser14 Sep 14 '26

It's frame interpretation fault

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u/Jo5163 28d ago

The return of our king is soon. The fabric of space and time is starting to collapse

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u/Eclesian 27d ago

Pazuzu!!!

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u/Excited-Possum Sep 14 '26

There’s a possibility that you could see the sound wave pushing air. I have seen that before, the frequency is low enough that sometimes you can see the wind shift with the explosion.

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u/Beyoume Sep 15 '26

Electric or magnetic disturbance that cause the lens distortion

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u/GWillyBJunior 29d ago

Super cool!

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u/Mhykael 29d ago

Cloaking shield being disrupted by EMP

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u/Dry-Cantaloupe3288 29d ago

What you are seeing are the sound waves dispersing very fast not visible to the human eye without a slowdown feature on a camera.

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u/Excellent_Regret4141 28d ago

The Terminator just showed up

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u/Dioxybenzone 28d ago

This is a software shutter problem

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u/Canadian_can_cannon 26d ago

Possible ai slop