Pilots capture rare weather phenomenon from cockpit

Hurricane Idalia is barrelling towards Florida and forecasters warn it is extremely dangerous. This rare footage of St Elmo’s Fire was captured by the pilots from MacDill Air Force Base.

The Air Force Base said on X (formerly Twitter): “During the evacuation, the 50th ARS recorded St. Elmo’s fire, a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created in an atmospheric electric field.”