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

[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!