Not much in the tropics....so heres some cool LIGHTNING PICS

[DAVE440]

Shot these yesterday in analog video...transfered to PC...then edited stills out.... NOT AS PAINLESS AS IT SOUNDS...but the results.....

ENJOY!



2 Strikes here. Stillframed in 3 parts from beginning to near end.
Top to bottom.

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[wzrgirl1]

The most awesome lightning show that I have ever seen....I was driving through it myself. Amazing cloud to ground lightning!!

[Tertius]

It isn't clickable and even a copy paste doesn't work for whatever reason. I'd like to see your pics though.

[DAVE440]

The most awesome lightning show that I have ever seen....I was driving through it myself. Amazing cloud to ground lightning!!

I was debating whether I should even be on the patio filming...IT WAS CLOSE!! My dogs were flippin!


Should be viewable now Tertius...

[WeatherEmperor]

i wouldnt wanna be caught in those. ouch!

<RICKY>

[Guest]

The most awesome lightning show that I have ever seen....I was driving through it myself. Amazing cloud to ground lightning!!

ground to cloud

[wzrgirl1]

The most awesome lightning show that I have ever seen....I was driving through it myself. Amazing cloud to ground lightning!!

ground to cloud

Like I said....it's cloud to ground

[DAVE440]

Hmmm...my bad. Forgot it actually goes from the ground up.

[wzrgirl1]

Two types of lightning occur during a thunderstorm: Cloud-to-ground lightning and intra-cloud lightning. The type of lightning most often seen in thunderstorms is cloud-to-ground lightning


This is a quote from an article I found




http://www.thebatt.com/media/paper657/n ... 3534.shtml

[WindRunner]

It's called cloud-to-ground, but in reality, the charge goes up from the ground and shoots back down once it closes the circuit with the cloud. (That's why when your hair stands up in a t-storm, you better move! The charge is using you to get closer to the cloud to bring a strike down.)

There's also cloud to cloud and cloud to air strikes, as well.

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Awesome pictures!!

[beachbum_al]

Those are awesome. We had some wicked lightening storms come through here last night but I was too tired from working yesterday.

[DAVE440]

Round 2 goin on!

Perfectly clear skies earlier....just opened up a while ago. Wind meter at the closest neighborhood station must be broken cuz it shows 3mph and trees were bending and we had to have 30-40mph. Looked like a tropical storm out there! Coral Springs..bout 8 miles north of me shows 44mph gust.

http://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS?station=AMX&brand=wui&num=6&delay=50&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1&noclutter=1&lat=26.148130&lon=-80.227058&label=Sunrise,+FL


Power surging and at least 7 light flickers in the past 15 mins. Was gonna shut down but the lightning is tapering off and its just raining now. UPS Power supply kept me up but still a risk. My neighor across the street lost 3 radios in yesterdays storm. 2 portable and a new surround system that was on a surge protector. Nothing else in his house was affected.

Took some video of todays storm approach. Might have some new ones later.

[Aslkahuna]

Actually, the most common lightning in a thunderstorm is inter and intra cloud lightning as CG lightning makes up only about 30% of all lightning in a storm. That said, CG is probably the most common form seen by people-especially in daytime storms.

Steev

[EDR1222]

Great pics! We had a pretty good show here in Melbourne this afternoon. We haven't see alot of heavy thunderstorms in our area this year for some reason. But today we had one of those where at about 5:30 it was like it was nightime. It got really dark. Lots of awesome lightning.

[WeatherEmperor]

I dunno about you guys but Im scared of lightning. It also happens that I live in Florida which is a heavy lightning prone area.

<RICKY>

[Sanibel]

The same disturbed layer passed through here. I had a close one when I went out to the garage.

[dolebot_Broward_NW]

Hey guys. Guess what happened to me today.... I got hit by that lightning (well not the same exact lightning but the same style). No joke.

Well not directly, but heres the story: I was working on my brakes about 5pm at my friends house in Coral Springs (riverside/sample area if you care to know), I didn't even notice the clouds rolling in till I had the right set off and I almost had them back on and working and I the big raindrops start up. I'm like "great" in my head. Here I am with most of my axle exposed and it starts pouring. I didn't even think to check the weather today. Well my friend comes out with an umbrella since I'm like 5 minutes from done. Lightning is crazy all around and thunder is almost nonstop. The rain was probably the worst I've seen in a couple years, and that includes both canes last year. Probably the worst since Irene came through our backyard.

My buddies hovering over me with the umbrella, its already flooded out pretty good, a half inch of water rushing down the driveway, I'm totally soaked. As I roll the tire over to put it up, I say something about how the rain suddenly got REALLY cold. It must have dropped 20 degrees from the typical hot florida rain to a nice cold deluge.

I start twisting on the first lugnut, and WHAM! BZZZZZT, POP!

I FELT THE STATIC RUN THROUGH THE BACK OF MY NECK, AND MY HAIR STOOD UP!!!! I actually felt the shock run through my fingers to the car. (Remember its on a jack, so the car is not insulated via the tires anymore) The most amazing part is how I could feel the electricity through my index finger and thumb. I immediately jumped up and ran for the house. If it were going to hit me directly of course I wouldn't be writing this. Instead it hit the corner of the house right next door about 12 feet from where I was. (LOL running towards the house was actually the wrong thing to do.) My buddy felt the static buildup on his hand from touching the umbrella. I wonder if we had a itty bitty visible static discharge headed from my car and the umbrella over to the bolt.

Well we went inside and I stood there for about 20 minutes jsut dripping and reflecting on my life and trying to get my heart to stop pounding.

Lesson learned. When there is lightning, go inside....

[NateFLA]

Here is a shot I took a few weeks ago from Little Gasparilla Island, FL.

A nice T-storm dying off the coast.

[Jim Cantore]

All of those are awsome

one question

what kind of camera did you use?