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Nearly 1,500 pulses of lightning recorded off Southern California coast in 5 minutes
latimes.com ^ | Mar 06, 2019 | Alene Tchekmedyian

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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Amazing photo's from Santa Barbara County Fire-Public Information Officer:

"Real Time Photos. Nikon D750 & 28-70mm. No stacking/single frame. Exposures vary from 15 seconds to 75 seconds."

https://twitter.com/EliasonMike/status/1103139908313473024/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1103139908313473024&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Flocal%2Flanow%2Fla-me-ln-socal-lightning-20190305-story.html

1 posted on 03/06/2019 4:35:41 PM PST by rxsid
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Additional photos & video at article link.


2 posted on 03/06/2019 4:36:18 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

Cool pics.


3 posted on 03/06/2019 4:39:55 PM PST by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If you want a definition of "bullying" just watch the Democrats in the Senate)
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To: Jim Robinson

Jim, you zotting trolls again?


4 posted on 03/06/2019 4:40:11 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Trust the plan of the 17th letter of the English alphabet!!)
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To: rxsid

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.


5 posted on 03/06/2019 4:43:00 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rxsid

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.


6 posted on 03/06/2019 4:47:02 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: rxsid

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.


7 posted on 03/06/2019 4:51:29 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: rxsid

I did enjoy last night. fun fun


8 posted on 03/06/2019 4:51:43 PM PST by missthethunder
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To: rxsid

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.


9 posted on 03/06/2019 4:54:53 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: rxsid

Nice. What a productive storm. (electrically)

There was a lot of lightening in my area on the border of Los Angeles too.


10 posted on 03/06/2019 5:03:47 PM PST by DoughtyOne
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To: All
Maybe He'll look around Himself and say
Guess it's time for the judgment day
In the year 2020 in the land of plenty
God is gonna shake His mighty head
He'll either say I'm pleased where man has been
Or tear it down, and start again

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11 posted on 03/06/2019 5:09:06 PM PST by BipolarBob (Dad, Send lawyers, guns and money.)
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To: metmom
The one was what was called a derecho that hit one August here in CNY and killed a few people.

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.

12 posted on 03/06/2019 5:12:43 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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"Yeah but did they get 596 inches of snow this season? Squaw Valley has. And it’s snowing now."

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!

13 posted on 03/06/2019 5:17:51 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: rxsid

Too bad my neck and back can’t enjoy riding on it any longer. But, yeah, good snow pack. And more happening right now.


14 posted on 03/06/2019 5:29:14 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: rxsid
""Nearly 1,500 pulses of lightning recorded off Southern California coast in 5 minutes”

In Tennessee, it's called "Summer"(Snicker, snicker)

Really cool pics, though.
15 posted on 03/06/2019 5:29:55 PM PST by RedMonqey ("Those who turn their arms in for plowshares will be doing the plowing for those who didn't.")
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To: rxsid

Chemtrails and cloud seeding...haven’t Californians noticed this winter?


16 posted on 03/06/2019 5:35:17 PM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: hanamizu; metmom
Long Beach, Cal

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.

17 posted on 03/06/2019 5:40:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (We are in the midst of a Cold Civil War.)
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To: rxsid

Meh... We get that with most every summer afternoon thunderstorm here in Florida. Lol!


18 posted on 03/06/2019 5:50:43 PM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: rxsid

Imagine if all of this energy could be harvested, maybe with an anode set up on a mountain?


19 posted on 03/06/2019 5:53:29 PM PST by Kenny500c
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To: rxsid

The Hauchucua Mts are amazing


20 posted on 03/06/2019 5:55:04 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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