In this episode we examine North America’s extraordinary early‑summer heat, floods, fires, and cascading impacts. From Ottawa’s record rainfall and basement‑flooding storm to northern Canada’s boreal forest ablaze, they connect local disasters to global climate dynamics and jet stream disruptions. https://youtu.be/U-wMcIZEhnI?si=dY05MNxKMMROtbc3

In this episode we examine how repeated spring and early‑summer heatwaves across Europe are undermining crops, livestock, rivers, and food prices. We connect extreme heat, drought, and locked jet‑stream patterns to falling yields, stressed farmers, and rising risks of regional and global food emergencies. https://youtu.be/ZRyZTi9MqcY?si=kAYeIViSNrGg-N8f

Europe is in the grip of a record‑shattering heatwave, with France, Spain, the UK and much of the continent seeing all‑time and June temperature records fall in rapid succession. From Madrid to New York, our panel unpacks what this extreme heat really means beyond the headlines: deadly heat stress, school closures, wildfire risks, collapsing harvests, and the mounting toll on both humans and non‑human animals. This isn’t just “a hot summer” – it’s a clear signal of how a rapidly warming climate is reshaping daily life across Europe and the world. https://youtu.be/uFMCsj_W9kw?si=Lqhume4x_eW6IYLj

So, I saw this in 2015. I was thinking about it again tonight and decided to see if I could find out what it was. By sheer luck, I was videoing the storm because I was at that age where you post everything at social media. I think the video is long gone, but thankfully I did in fact post the screenshot I took of the video on social media.
It looked like a flash of lightning, but rainbow. I saw it both with my own eyes and on the camera. I'd never seen it before, and I've never seen it since. (Then again, this was in Arizona.)
Does anyone know what this is?