Posted on 08/22/2019 9:39:31 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
On the night of July 29, 2019 the forces of Nature aligned in such a way as to provide an absolutely stunning series of intense lightning strikes that ran along a line of about 150 miles long from the south end of Lake Okeechobee almost to the tip of the Florida peninsula. This storm lasted for over 3 hours from about 8 to 11:30 PM and for most of that time the frequency of the lightning strikes maintained its high intensity.
I originally uploaded almost 24 minutes of this lightning storm which I was able to view over a wide range as heat lightning which was the lightning strikes from a distance of about 30 to 40 miles away reflected off the high clouds. Unfortunately because of the silence of the heat lightning and length of the original video it elicited a mostly "meh" reaction. Therefore I have edited the video down to about five and a half minutes and added in the proper musical accompaniment of Richard Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries" from the YouTube Audio library.
No time lapse nor looping was used in this video so the intensity of the lightning strikes is exactly what you see. It is my hope that his new video gives viewers a better appreciation of the amazing weather phenomenon that occurred in South Florida on July 29 which resulted in at least 100 lightning strikes per minute or more than one per second.
Bump for later viewing.
They should have played it backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EbFbpZzWEs
Great, now I have a picture of Illinois Nazis falling in a station wagon, thanks PJ...
wow! Donner (or Wotan? Or Bruenhilde?) was raining down a lot of hammer strikes that night!
Yup! A MINIMUM of one strike per second and more likely at least TWO per second. When you watch the storms as heat lightning which is really lightning reflected off the high clouds from a distance of 30 to 40 miles away, you see the wide range magnified so a lot of it is in your field of vision. In this case the storm was so VAST that it covered the entire horizon from north to south. So what you see here is only a small portion of that vastness.
PJ, Here’s one that we did back in 2016, mid-Gulf Florida looking Northwest.
We set it to some really nice Bosa Nova music. I don’t post enough to do a proper link so someone please make a magic link so a copy/paste is not needed.
Sit back with a nice bottle of wine and watch the show.
(Didn’t mean to hijack your thread PJ, just more of our famous Florida lightning)
CB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwhF_GNAZl4
That also appears to be heat lighting from at least 20 miles away reflected off the clouds.
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