Crazy Night Here!

Pic is at 12:50AM I don't recall ever seeing so many bolts of lightening come together to make one Super Bolt of Lightening like this one was! We got it easy South of us got totally hammered and news is reporting massive damage from the storm in the picture. At this point I made the video and took the pictures in near dead calm and no rain. Reminds me of pics of nukes going boom.

 

Looks like an old photo of a nuclear test! That or the view of the atomic blast on Hiroshima, Japan, that helped bring about the end of the War in the Pacific! That was 78 years ago!

 

Awesome

 

Local news is reporting large amounts of severe damage underneath what I was taking pictures of and making a video of
Here is the video I made from 12:45 - 12:55am this morning.
https://youtu.be/1dBxmbL8I0E

 

Our weather isn't as spectacular as yours, but thunderstorms have been rolling through as regular as a train schedule for the past week. Got one going on right now!

 

weaking geomagnetic field is leading to more so-called Superbolt lightening.

Record setting superbolt was observed - Almost 500-mile-long lightning bolt crossed three US states - BBC News



'Superbolts' are real, and they flash up to 1,000 times brighter than regular lightning | Live Science
not only brighter, they produced gamma ray bursts.
and finally

Hotspots found for lightning’s superbolts (snexplores.org)

 

Cool pic.

Down here, we're suppose to be smack dab in the middle of monsoon season. We haven't had much rain at all yet. Makes me wonder if it's gonna make up for it come winter. I don't know what the total was last year. But, during late December through late February, we were getting at least 10 inches of snowfall every 3 days. My dog walked off our front steps and buried himself in snow.

 

I've just had a spell roll thru here,, I guess we may be on the tail end of it ,, seems to be calming down,, wind has died down. An alert came over the phone before it hit said we could have 80mph winds . I live down in a hole ,, so the only worry I have is the wind hitting top of these trees and knocking some of them down on top of my ass .

Yall stay safe.

 

We generally get it pretty easy with the storms, Most of the time they do what the one last night did and split and go to the North and South of us. About 1/4 of them don't follow the rule and hit us head on instead of splitting or diverting North and South. This storm was the rule and the storm lines edge was 8-10 miles South of us. North Storm line was 10 Miles North of us. We had a light breeze and 3/4" of rain. I much prefer watching them to the South than getting rocked by them and cleaning up after them.

I am going with the one in the pic was a Super Bolt of Lightening Consider my self very fortunate to have had the camera pointed at the right place at the right time to get it recorded.What I am liking even more is the cold front that followed the storms in. The 100+ heat indexs day after day were getting real old!

 

Don't worry.....the UFO's were just dropping off more pod people!

 

I'd still be looking out of a hole in the ground like a Prairie dog after seeing that lighting

 

Same thing happens around here, the terrain in NE Mississippi and the Tennessee River causes storms coming from the west to split before they get to us. I've watched a lot of badly needed rain fall just a few miles north and south of us, and I've watched a lot of really bad weather raise hell just a few miles north and south of us too! The storms usually come together again several miles to the east.

 

I once spent part of a night mission sitting in a hole in Mid-central Utah, the lightning storm was so epic. To my great surprise, the F-111Fs showed up on time and target!

 

We got it last night, power out for a few minute 2 times, almost continuous lightning for about an hour.

 

My little place down where the Duck River and Tn River come together (Hurricane Mills area) gets the same effect. Comes off the more West Tn Flats and hits the hills and very often breaks up, splits or diverts South of the camp. Then there are the times it drops a Tornado that skips from hill to hill looking like a pack of giants walked through the timber.

 

Good pics.

 

Here in Tallahassee, Fl., storms often split and go north and/or south of us. Very seldom do hurricanes hit us head on. Due often to that large mass of land extending into the Gulf just south/Southwest of us.
This makes my area the generally safest in Florida.

 

Hot and dry as a powder house here. 104F today and most of the week.