Electrical Storm: 6 August 2021

The human eye can see at a frame rate of 1/10th of a second, so the finer details are missed. Even at the standard 24 to 30 fps movie, much of this event would not be recorded.

Between 6:42PM and 6:54PM, I stood in my garage as I captured a nice electrical storm just 1 to 3 miles away. Using a iPhone 11 Pro Max in slow motion mode, I slowed the strikes to 1/10th real time.

If a strike was faster than 1/24th of a second, there was a good chance I'd miss it if I took a normal video. However, at 240 fps, many strikes were recorded with remarkable detail. I was holding the iPhone as the storm moved by.