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Trey45
09-27-2011, 11:23 PM
One very low cloud generated hundreds of lightning strikes, in most of these pictures you can see the stars above the cloud. This storm went on for about an hour, I've never seen anything like it before.
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http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/67_238/165_33/ghteningstormorsomething065-vi-th.jpg (http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/67_238/165_33/ghteningstormorsomething065-vi.jpg)

http://hotimg23.fotki.com/a/67_238/165_33/ghteningstormorsomething074-vi-th.jpg (http://hotimg23.fotki.com/p/a/67_238/165_33/ghteningstormorsomething074-vi.jpg)

It was almost surreal standing in the backyard taking these pictures. Sometimes the flashes were coming so fast that it lit up the whole sky.

Lee
09-27-2011, 11:37 PM
Yup. Strange weather this year. Must be Al's Global Warming ..... Lee:razz:

lead Foot
09-27-2011, 11:42 PM
Strange things happen alright. I'm out hunting in central Queensland Australia. Two nights ago there was dry lighting, no clouds just lighting. It was amazing to watch and it also started two bush fires. I can't view your pics Trey45 :???:
Lead foot.

sargenv
09-28-2011, 12:46 AM
About 10 years ago, we had kind of a freak lightning storm that was pretty much contained just over the Southern SF Bay area.. the air was warm and humid, and we saw many flashes of lightning that night from our vantage point a couple of miles distant.. the oddest part about it all was the lack of thunder.. I wonder if it had to do with being beyond the Oakland Airport (which was nearby) and that the noise created by planes landing and taking off, drowned out the sounds of the thunder.. we sat and watched that storm for what seemed to be an hour.. and it never moved (which was odd in itself that it was stationary).

Shooter6br
09-28-2011, 12:57 AM
Some say the government has something to do with weather control. Google HARP Fact or Fiction? Weather as a weapon>? Some are beleivers....:kidding:

Trey45
09-28-2011, 08:25 AM
My dog thinks I control the weather, if it's raining outside and she has to go, she gets mad at me.

wgr
09-28-2011, 08:38 AM
My dog thinks I control the weather, if it's raining outside and she has to go, she gets mad at me.
now that i can relate to:groner:

PatMarlin
09-28-2011, 11:24 PM
About 10 years ago, we had kind of a freak lightning storm that was pretty much contained just over the Southern SF Bay area.. the air was warm and humid, and we saw many flashes of lightning that night from our vantage point a couple of miles distant.. the oddest part about it all was the lack of thunder.. I wonder if it had to do with being beyond the Oakland Airport (which was nearby) and that the noise created by planes landing and taking off, drowned out the sounds of the thunder.. we sat and watched that storm for what seemed to be an hour.. and it never moved (which was odd in itself that it was stationary).

Sounds like the same storm up north here about that time. Totally dry night with a warm breeze and the sky was full of lightening. Nothing touched ground. No rain. Not a sound. My wife and I broke out the sleeping bags and just starred at the show all night. Awesome.

Cool pics Trey.

Trey45
09-28-2011, 11:47 PM
Thanks Pat, glad you dig them. It was one of those once in a lifetime moments where I just happened to have the camera already on a tripod and ready to shoot. Nature did the rest.

MtGun44
09-29-2011, 12:32 AM
Good pix. I stopped the car and watched one like that about 20 yrs ago,
very impressive.

One thing I have learned about the weather in 60 yrs of living in it and around
30 yrs of flying through it all over this continent.

It varies A LOT, and does lots of WEIRD stuff.

Bill

Al Gore is so full of it that his eyes are brown. . . . . .

Hickory
09-29-2011, 07:12 AM
Years ago, I was camping with a friend who was just out of
the Marines and back from Veit Nam.

That night from a distance we saw the most God awful
lighting storm a person would want to witness.

Ted, with lost look on his face said, "It's beautiful..., and horrifying.
Just like watching men fighting and dying. The great beauty of
winning and the horror of death it leaves behind."

Several weeks later he killed himself.