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Posted on 07/07/2025 11:07:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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Go to Florida they said....hang out on the beach they said...what could happen they said... -
Storm clouds mean LEAVE THE BEACH. Under an umbrella or a tree is the worst place to be.
Trump to blame. 3……2……1…
Now the question is how long until a TDS-deranged democommie places blame on Trump/Elon/DOGE for failing to predict this lightning strike.
Longest Lightening Bolt ever Recorded
I previously understood that the longest lightening stroke was 45 miles. At one point it might have been. Now this article says it was about 10 times as long!
What would Lou Christie say?
That’s unreal.
It goes to show how little we really know about this planet we inhabit.
“What would Lou Christie say?”
Unfortunately nothing.....he passed away in June
Or Klaus Nomi.
I saw a lightning strike about 100 ft away to a pool ladder (50 meter salt water pool) when I was about 7 hrs old. I also saw a water spout from an umpredicted afternoon thunder shower tear up heavy wood beach cabanas. Storm clouds when you are at the beach mean one thing, and one thing only. Time to go. The carnage always happens to the visitors who don’t know and follow this simple rule.
“Come to the coast, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.”
ZOT!
North Palm Beach Country Club has lightning detectors scattered all over the course.
They sound whenever lightning is detected within a 5 mile radius.
This makes sense, as Florida receives the most lightning strikes per year* per population density of any other state.
*(Texas has the most actual lightning strikes.)
(From Spaceweather.com July 7 2025 newsletter)
"SPACE LIGHTNING' PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE ISS:On July 3, 2025, astronaut Nichole Ayers aboard the International Space Station captured a rare and breathtaking image: a Gigantic Jet bursting upward from a thunderstorm in North America. The high-resolution photograph shows a crimson bolt arcing from the cloudtops toward the edge of space.
"Just. Wow," Ayers posted after the event. "As we went over Mexico and the U.S. this morning, I caught this [Gigantic Jet] triggered by intense electrical activity in the thunderstorms below." József Bór, an atmospheric scientist at the Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science in Hungary, was thrilled by the image. "Nichole's photo sets a new standard for space-borne observations of Gigantic Jets," he says. "Such a sharply focused and detailed photo of a Gigantic Jet has never been recorded from space."
Most readers have heard of sprites, and maybe even seen one or two on a stormy summer night. They emerge from the tops of intense thunderstorms like upside-down lightning, reaching their eerie red tendrils toward space.
Gigantic jets like sprites on steroids--visually more impressive and far more rare. While sprites were discovered in 1989 and have since been photographed by the thousands, it was not until 2001-2002 that Gigantic Jets were first recorded from Puerto Rico and Taiwan. No more than a few dozen have ever been photographed with a quality approaching that of Ayers' image.
Bór is currently running a project called UHU, which alerts astronauts aboard the ISS to thunderstorms that might produce Gigantic Jets and other Transient Luminous Events (TLEs). The goal is to coordinate space-based observations with ground-based instruments to triangulate and study these elusive phenomena. Photographers from around the world are invited to contribute.
Ironically, Ayers wasn't acting on a UHU alert. She caught this Gigantic Jet by chance. Still, Bór remains hopeful: "A simultaneous observation would allow us to calculate the exact location, altitude, and dimensions of the jet, and examine the position of the initiation point relative to weather radar data. Hungarian astronaut Tibor Kapu is onboard the ISS now as part of the Ax-4 mission, and will be working with Bór to make that happen. Ayers's photo is now one of the best ever taken of a Gigantic Jet—and a promising sign of what coordinated space-Earth campaigns could uncover next."
When you were about 7 hrs old ??
It was a really bright bolt of lightening.
Tampa Bay area has the highest lightning volume in the continental US.
Wow - that’s something!
I was going to give my standard lightning comment, stolen from golfer Lee Travino who had been struck by lightning more than once while out on the course.
The announcer asked him what people should do if they’re out on a golf course and a lightning storm rolls in.
Lee quipped, “Hold up a One Iron - Even God can’t hit a one iron!”
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