Posted on 08/12/2019 2:15:54 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
As you can see in this video the time between the big flash from the lightning bolt and its thunder is less than a second which means this lightning strike was less than a quarter mile away (sound travels at 5 seconds per mile). This lightning strike hit on August 12, 2019 in Broward County at about 3:30 PM. The strike happened in Broward County Florida at approximately 44th Street and Pine Island Road. I was lucky to get this recording because I was about to quit after recording a series of videos in which the lightning strikes were either outside the camera's field of vision or were too far away to show up clearly in the videos.
I also present this lightning strike in quarter speed. If you want to record lightning strikes, PATIENCE is the key word. It also helps to take a pad with you to monitor lightning strikes on LightningMaps.Org so you know which direction to point the camera. In this case, about half a minute after I switched the cell camera direction from northwest to southwest, I was able to record this lightning strike.
I was standing about 30 feet from a guy on the tarmac at MacDill AFB in the 1970s. Lightning bolt made a direct hit on him and killed him. About blew my eardrums out but otherwise no other injuries.
Eardrums ... call Morgan and Morgan they’ll get you all sorts of disability, blah blah balh
I was in South Carolina in the spring and was taking a bag of trash out to a dumpster in an apartment complex. I felt like ants were crawling all over my body and a second later, KABOOOM! The lightning hit the dumpster which was a few car lengths away. If i feel that again in the future I will just acknowledge God with a prayer thought. Just for Insurance.
So how’s your hearing now? BTW, when I left this scene to go back home I was verrrrrry nervous about getting hit by lightning.
There’s a lot more going on here than you know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLWIBrweSU8
No. I believe it is 5 seconds per mile. IOW, when lightning hits, it takes 5 seconds to travel a mile. If I saw that flash and then counted 5 seconds, it would mean it was a mile away but since I counted just under a second as you can hear in the video, that lightning strike was less than a quarter mile away.
Five seconds per mile is correct.
Cool! It’s almost like lightning is a living thing.
I was pulling into a parking place once in a lot that overlooks a soccer field. It was broad daylight, with sun coming in from the west and dark clouds directly overhead; a cold front going through.
In direct sunlight, there was a lightning strike to the soccer field in front of me. The thunderclap was almost instantaneous.
The lighting bolt was in full sunlight, and actually appeared to be purple, almost a straight vertical line; it appeared to be two feet or so across.
Lighting doesn’t always go down, it can go any direction and often goes horizontal, so the origin of that strike could have begun over your head at 1000 feet in the cloud base (a second away) while striking the Earth at some greater distance. Just one of many possibilities. But its usually best not to hang out in thunder storms :)
If you look carefully, it looks like the brightest part of this lightning strike was at the top.
If you look carefully, it looks like the brightest part of this lightning strike was at the top.
I was working 2nd shift and came home after midnight. I pulled into the garage and went into a room that had a large window and a bed that my father in law used when he was visiting. There was a massive thunderstorm going on so I opened the window and had my face pressed against the screen to watch the lightning and listen to the rain. After a couple of minutes I decided it was time for bed so I backed away to close the window. Next thing I know I am lying on the bed and I smell smoke. I start feeling myself to see if all of me is there when I hear my daughter crying upstairs. For a few seconds I was afraid to get off the bed because I had watched a video on lightning and they said lightning could travel through concrete. We had a concrete floor in that room and I was afraid of getting shocked. The crying motivated me to move.
The next morning we saw that lightning had hit the house, traveled along the roof, blew a big chunk of wood out of the sunroom and split a tree just beyond the sunroom. It kicked off 6 circuit breakers, 2 that weren’t even hooked up to anything. Our television was fried and the inside of a power strip for our computer was turned into cinders. I have no doubt that if I was still standing with my face against the screen I would have been killed.
Sporadic whitish horizontal band in video raster seem to appear over brightest part of vertical lightening. Possible electrical interference? Or need to clean my glasses?
About 15 years ago, two of my kids and I got off the train in Florence, Italy in a huge downpour. We were walking through the streets to our hotel when BOOM! lightning hit building across the street. The brightness of the flash and the sound of the thunder were absolutely staggering and scared us to death. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
That might be a artifact of the camera adjusting the exposure for the suddenly bright flash.
Such “clear air lightning” can actually hit up to ten miles away from the storm. It’s very dangerous.
NO, sound travels at 5 seconds per mile approximately at sea level, 5 miles a second is orbital velocity for Earth.
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