Hurricane Ian’s eye wall is packed with lightning right now. Spectacular imagery of a powerful, intensifying storm.
https://twitter.com/weatherdak/status/1574799310285201410
WoW! That was worth a look see! Thanks
Oh, golly, that site has some great stuff! I downloaded the mp4 file they offer - and a few others, too.
At this rate I may be looking for another external HD on Black Friday...
Oh my goodness!!! I’ve never seen anything like that before.
This is one huge storm!!!!
It’s strange how differently I learned about hurricanes when I had meteorology in college. We were told then that lightning was rare in hurricanes because of the horizontal layout of the storm. Not much elevation and reduced friction.
Lately though, they seem to have subtly changed that. Intense lightning in the eyewall is more common than assumed and usually signals a rapidly intensifying storm.
Ian is now a Cat 4. Yikes.