Lightning!

[pyat]

They weren't kidding about intense lightning. I've counted 50+ flashes in a minute.






Some frames from video I shot, showing lightning striking nearby - less than 500 metres. These was two seperate strikes, though it seemed like just one to me.

Comments

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

The lightning is so bright here it's turning off all the streetlights. Which made walking home in the storm all the more surreal.

Doug.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

But you saved your book!

(Your icon is very scary, sir.)

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

It's part of a series of photos I took as I de-bearded myself after my trip to Oz. This one is my "Garden City Motorcycles" look ... the next one is entitled "Science!" and only looks scary in that it looks like I may be experienced with the Amazongo river (In distant South Amafrica) and armies of Robo-Automatons.

DOug.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

We've been getting some of this in Philly too and that just downright strange. This is Midwest weather . I have no idea what it's doing in Ontario let alone the Delaware Valley here.

[pyat.livejournal.com]

Ontario is sort of geographically contiguous with the midwest. London, Ontario is the "Lightning Capital of Canada."

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's funny, but used to think that the land across the river there was a whole nuther continent. Seriously! For some reason, I imagined wholly different weather patterns. This despite the fact that I've driven to Toronto and Niagra a good many times. No matter, Canada was still a far off under the sway the metric system.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Metric. Making things 1.6 times further away than they actually are! Science!

[relee.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's how they knew where to put the border, donchaknow? Soon as you cross it, the temperature drops a good sixty degrees or more!

[leonard-arlotte.livejournal.com]

Of course it's the Lightning capital. You've got a huge metal spike sticking up in the middle of it!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

An hour's drive south of here, along the shores of Lake Erie, is the best place to watch lightning. Last night reminded me of summers at camp when we'd all sit out by the lake and watch the lightning until the rain drove us into our cabins. Which we then had to share with the rained-out Girl Guides whose tent area was under a foot of water.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

Make certain to take cover under a major appliance, such as a refrigerator.

[katepufftail.livejournal.com]

We were having pretty good storms here last night too. Things weren't as bad as the forecast said they might be, but there was some pretty good lightning and thunder. Loud and grumbling, sounding like someone was rolling really big stones down a rock face, but no strobe-effect lightning.

Didn't sit out and watch it though, I was kept in. My charming better half had carted home a big stack of Dr Who DVDs (Fourth Doctor) from the library, and I got bullied into watching a portion of them!

[pyat.livejournal.com]

4th Doctor? She's a real taskmaster, she is. :)