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[Lightningwizard]

Hi!
We had winter sprites in the western Mediterranean Sea last week. I posted a number of images to the blog: http://eurosprite.blogspot.com
The fall season appears to be much more suitable for sprite-watching than the summer even here, because the sky is often covered by low clouds or the thunderstorm itself in summer. Very clear skies in fall and winter.

Best wishes!
Oscar

[ITO]

Dear Oscar, nice to hear from you !

We also have a big wave of Sprites last 3 weeks ! We captured ca.130 sprites/elves clearly in 9 nights.
In winter, Japan has been covered by a very cold air. It blows from mainland China and generates snow clouds at Northern Japan faced Japan Sea (Fukui pref. to Niigata pref.). We can see strong lightnings (10 - 100 times stronger from ordinary one) during snow storms there. It's great chance to get Sprite pictures.
Another chance is one coming after low pressure passing near Japan. It sometimes carries lightnings and sprites at the Pacific ocean.

There's a lot of pictures at thread of Sprite / 2007.12/15-16, 2 columns below. I hope you to ENJOY it !

A Happy Merry Christmas !
ITO