Posted on 03/06/2019 6:41:44 AM PST by C19fan
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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Ming tests So Cal.
Next up: Hot Hail.
I thought the majority of the pulses were over the ocean as it took quite a few seconds for the thunder to follow, and it was somewhat muffled...from Los Feliz at least. Quite the light show, however.
LOL!
Ok Dr Zarkov
Darn those SUV’s. Darn them to heck
And then think about how much electricity was just vented without us being able to use any of it. I think it's over a billion Joules per strike. 1500 strikes = 1.5+ Trillion Joules in 5 min. A 100 Watt bulb needs 100 Joules to stay lit for 1 second. That's a lot of light bulbs. :)
And more dead Democrats crawled up out of their graves ready to vote again.
Tom Cruise knows what they are!
Sounds like god is really pissed, though tornadoes would have been more effective
That storm was nothing. I live in LA close to the beach and I didn’t even notice it. However when I was working in Iowa last year, I was amazed at the thunder / lightening storms. They were awesome. So. Cal storms not so much.
That is rare out there.
At any given moment, I estimate there were at least five to ten simultaneous clearly visible thunderbolts spread out, with dozens of others less visible going on at the same time behind.
It was damned intimidating. We figured the best place to be was in our car (because it was completely wide open with few trees) so that was where we went.
I live in New England, and when we get storms like that, we don't generally see them because our terrain has more hills and trees, so you only see a small portion around you.
To see that black swath from horizon to horizon was a different experience for me.
Like George Washington who was once said to have remarked after a battle in the French and Indian Wars "I heard the bullets whistle – and believe me, there is something charming in the sound" (To which King George, upon hearing it was reputed to have said "He would not say so if he had been used to hearing many!") I have often enjoyed tempestous storm conditions with heavy rain, noisy lightning and thunder,
But if I lived somewhere in which that was commonly accompanied by tornadoes, I doubt I would find it as "charming"!
without us being able to use any of it.
= = =
I do think it is ‘used’.
Processes nitrogen, and may help ‘clean’ the atmosphere.
Is there any way meteorologists can get it to stall over congress?
Which god? The Lord God created physics which He allows to follow its otherwise natural processes. Not this, “He lifted his divine hand of protection,” TV preacher stuff.
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