Great pics…reminds me when I worked in Alberta. We don’t often see this much lightning in this end of Canada (Ontario).
Sandy
P.S. see, some of us LIKE your weather postings…
Not really; the closest to a bolt impact I’ve been is around a city block, and that was quite close enough, thank you very much – that one blew a tree in half.
I once did get to see a bolt that was a real monster from around a hundred miles away; it was a a “positive discharge”, a lightning bolt that comes out of the top of a thunderhead and arcs all the way to the ground; this one arced down around 20,000 feet and was easily visible in broad daylight even at that distance. One can only imagine the electrical potential it had to have to arc that far, and the thunderclap it generated on the way down.
How are you taking the photos? Shooting when you see the bolt start, or just taking a lot and hoping you catch some by chance?
Great pics…reminds me when I worked in Alberta. We don’t often see this much lightning in this end of Canada (Ontario).
Sandy
P.S. see, some of us LIKE your weather postings…
I’d hate to be on the receiving end of that second one.
Is there one you *would* like to be on the receiving end of?
Not really; the closest to a bolt impact I’ve been is around a city block, and that was quite close enough, thank you very much – that one blew a tree in half.
I once did get to see a bolt that was a real monster from around a hundred miles away; it was a a “positive discharge”, a lightning bolt that comes out of the top of a thunderhead and arcs all the way to the ground; this one arced down around 20,000 feet and was easily visible in broad daylight even at that distance. One can only imagine the electrical potential it had to have to arc that far, and the thunderclap it generated on the way down.
How are you taking the photos? Shooting when you see the bolt start, or just taking a lot and hoping you catch some by chance?