"Real Time Photos. Nikon D750 & 28-70mm. No stacking/single frame. Exposures vary from 15 seconds to 75 seconds."
Posted on 03/06/2019 4:35:41 PM PST by rxsid
"Nearly 1,500 pulses of lightning recorded off Southern California coast in 5 minutes
A band of thunderstorms that stretched from southern Kern County past the Channel Islands was producing a dramatic lightning show Tuesday night in the Southern California sky.
In one five-minute stretch alone, shortly after 8 p.m., the National Weather Service recorded 1,489 pulses of lightning off the coast, 231 over Santa Barbara County and 40 in Los Angeles County, said Kathy Hoxsie, a meteorologist with the weather service in Oxnard."
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"Real Time Photos. Nikon D750 & 28-70mm. No stacking/single frame. Exposures vary from 15 seconds to 75 seconds."
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Cool pics.
Jim, you zotting trolls again?
Yeah but did they get 596 inches of snow this season? Squaw Valley has. And it’s snowing now. Same storm system. But, that’s lot of flashing goin’ on.
When I was a kid, I got my first camera, a Brownie Hawkeye.
We had a thunderstorm rolling in, so I loaded up with a roll of film to take pictures of the lightning. I had no concept of shutter speed.
Flash
click!
Flash
click!
Flash
click!
Heh.
I’ve been in a few thunderstorms here in NYS that have been the same.
The one was what was called a derecho that hit one August here in CNY and killed a few people.
The lightning was like a strobe light. The power went out immediately when it hit and we didn’t need the candles until after the storm had passed. The lightning was so constant that it provided all the light we needed to run around and close all the windows so it wouldn’t rain in the house.
It was exciting and terrifying all at the same time.
There were others, but that was by far and away the worst.
I did enjoy last night. fun fun
I grew up in Long Beach, Cal. I can remember lightning causing a flash in the sky, but never saw lightning strikes like you see in these pics. When I saw them in movies, I thought they were not real.
Get to see a lot of lightning in SE Missouri.
Nice. What a productive storm. (electrically)
There was a lot of lightening in my area on the border of Los Angeles too.
apologies to zager and evans
I was just gonna say!
I watched that one develop, August 1999.
Our living room window faced east, and for three or four minutes before the rain hit, there were hundreds of lighting bolts hitting out over the towns to our east and south; at one point, they were coming at the rate of many per second. I'm sure that more than a thousand were visible before the rain started, and they didn't stop then, they were just not directly visible.
Once the rain started, our living room window appeared to be looking out on a solid waterfall, much more intense than what you see going through a drive-through car wash.
The Sierra's are going to be packed this year with snow!
Mammoth has even more, 620 inches at the summit...and they are projecting a closing date of after Independence Day!
Too bad my neck and back can’t enjoy riding on it any longer. But, yeah, good snow pack. And more happening right now.
Chemtrails and cloud seeding...haven’t Californians noticed this winter?
I grew up in the L.A. basin, also, and they just don't get dramatic lightning there.
I took a job running a dive shop in Tucson and boy howdy do they get it. Not unlike the photos here. And pretty much every evening in the summer.
But the most awesome lightning storm I ever saw was down in Guaymas, Mexico. It was a chubasco over the Sea of Cortez. The lightning was so continuous you could read a book by it.
Meh... We get that with most every summer afternoon thunderstorm here in Florida. Lol!
Imagine if all of this energy could be harvested, maybe with an anode set up on a mountain?
The Hauchucua Mts are amazing
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