Hey LR,
What about "St. Elmo's Fire" or St. Elmo, I've attached a brief discription:
St. Elmo's Fire is a type of continuous electric spark called a "glow discharge." You've seen it many times before, since it is almost exactly the same as the glows found in old orange-display calculators and in "eye of the storm" plasma globes. When it occurs naturally, we call it St. Elmo's Fire, but when it occurs inside a glass tube, we call it a neon sign.
St. Elmo's Fire is a mixture of particles by the name "plasma," and it is conductive. It also fluoresces with light.
The color of the glow depends on the type of gas involved, if the atmosphere of neon gas, then St. Elmo's fire would be red/orange, and lightning would be white with orange edges. If a neon sign tube was filled with nitrogen/oxygen instead of neon, it would light up blue/violet rather than red/orange.
Is this phenomenon related to ball lightning? No one knows, because no one knows what ball lightning is, and it might not be a spark at all. St. Elmo's fire is sometimes mistaken for ball lightning. Among other differences, ball lightning can drift around like a soap bubble, while St. Elmo's Fire always remains attached to an object.
By the way have you stopped LOL
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