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ABSTRACT ON the afternoon of Aug. 31 I was at Portofino watching across the bay a succession of heavy thunderstorms that drove up from the south over the Ligurian hills east of Rapallo. At about 3.30 P.M. a rain-curtain a couple of miles wide was moving northwards, completely obscuring a section of the coast-line. While this was opposite Chiavari two appearances of ‘ball lightning’ were seen by myself and two companions. (A third earlier one of brief duration was seen by one observer.) SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS SMALL LIGHTNING FLASHES FROM SHALLOW ELECTRICAL STORMS ON JUPITER Article 05 August 2020 LIGHTNING AT JUPITER PULSATES WITH A SIMILAR RHYTHM AS IN-CLOUD LIGHTNING AT EARTH Article Open access 23 May 2023 ELECTROMAGNETIC POWER OF LIGHTNING SUPERBOLTS FROM EARTH TO SPACE Article Open access 11 June 2021 ARTICLE PDF AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Bedford College, London, N.W.I. W. NEILSON JONES Authors * W. NEILSON JONES View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE JONES, W. Ball Lightning. _Nature_ 130, 545 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130545b0 Download citation * Issue Date: 08 October 1932 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130545b0 SHARE THIS ARTICLE Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: Get shareable link Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Copy to clipboard Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative

ABSTRACT ON the afternoon of Aug. 31 I was at Portofino watching across the bay a succession of heavy thunderstorms that drove up from the south over the Ligurian hills east of Rapallo. At


about 3.30 P.M. a rain-curtain a couple of miles wide was moving northwards, completely obscuring a section of the coast-line. While this was opposite Chiavari two appearances of ‘ball


lightning’ were seen by myself and two companions. (A third earlier one of brief duration was seen by one observer.) SIMILAR CONTENT BEING VIEWED BY OTHERS SMALL LIGHTNING FLASHES FROM


SHALLOW ELECTRICAL STORMS ON JUPITER Article 05 August 2020 LIGHTNING AT JUPITER PULSATES WITH A SIMILAR RHYTHM AS IN-CLOUD LIGHTNING AT EARTH Article Open access 23 May 2023 ELECTROMAGNETIC


POWER OF LIGHTNING SUPERBOLTS FROM EARTH TO SPACE Article Open access 11 June 2021 ARTICLE PDF AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Bedford College, London, N.W.I. W. NEILSON JONES


Authors * W. NEILSON JONES View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google Scholar RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS


ARTICLE JONES, W. Ball Lightning. _Nature_ 130, 545 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130545b0 Download citation * Issue Date: 08 October 1932 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/130545b0 SHARE


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