In a scene that looked straight out of an apocalyptic movie, lightning bolts appeared to shoot upwards and light up the sky over the Acatenango Volcano in Guatemala in a viral video. The video was taken by a passerby, Derrick Steele, during a thunderstorm on July 10 but has only become viral now.
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00:00 In a scene that looks straight out of an apocalyptic movie, lightning bolts appear to shoot upwards
00:12 and light up the sky over the Akatenango volcano in Guatemala in a viral video.
00:19 The video was taken by a passerby Derek Steele during a thunderstorm on July 10, but has
00:24 only become viral now.
00:33 Derek Douglas Steele, the man behind the now viral video, said that he saw the lightning
00:39 hitting the volcano on and off during the storm.
00:42 "I jumped off my motorcycle and hit record.
00:46 Sure enough, the second I started the video, the crazy lightning went off," he said.
00:52 People were stopped in their tracks when the lightning appeared to shoot upwards from the
00:56 3,976-meter-high volcano through the sky.
01:01 However, the lightning strikes did not shoot upwards from the volcano, and it was nothing
01:06 but an optical illusion.
01:09 What made Steele stop in his tracks and record the scene was lightning hitting the volcano
01:13 during the storm even as its two peaks, Pico Mayor and Gepo Capa, were shrouded by stormy
01:19 clouds.
01:21 This comes after rare upside-down lightning was captured in slow-motion footage by a storm
01:27 chaser.
01:28 Freak weather in Texas produced the backwards lightning flashes, which lasted about half
01:34 a second in real time, but can be seen clearly in the video.
01:37 It is thought that less than 1% of lightning travels upwards.
01:41 "It is a very, very rare sight," said Steele.
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