Heavy thunderstorms yesterday

[Exotic Life]

Hi,

The have forecasted yeasterday heave thunderstrom at the end of the day... The whole day was sunny with some clouds... but the tempeture rise up later on that day to hight tempeture between the 27-32C/80.6-89.6F.

So the this al options was perfect for heavy thunder storms, later that afternoon the give also a weather warning for extreme lightning's! There was a lot in that late afternoon and evening ... We have more thunderstroms in summer time, but this was very heavy thunder and that we don't see so much ... it was looking like some place of the country like thunderstorms you see in hot country's ...

Here are some picture's from different people around the country ... Some pics are so beautifull!

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Some place's got also hail...

And destry the new planted crops

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And sometimes a lot of water!

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More lightning!

this say's enough ...

[Exotic Life]

I was the whole day in the southwest, and there i have see some lightnings and hear some thunder and i don't see any rain .. there was very quite... when i came home in the late evening... my mother see, where i live the have got the whole day sunny ... there was not rain, thunder or lightning anyway ... That strange Later that evening i heard 2 people has died because the lightning.

For today, again that tempeture's and same conditions like yesterday! .. so the have forecasted that there is a chance for tonight on the same heavy thunderstorms... i think i go to see more lightning picture's on the internet this evening!

Robbin

[Tyrone]

Amazing pictures. Those clouds look scary. They look like tornadoe generating clouds.

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Tyrone...

yeah you're right scary sky's there is damage but not tornado's but by hail and a lot of raining water...

I have still see nothing about this extreme weather, it's more in the east and southeast in the country ...

Robbin

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Some new picture's from have thunderstroms at the end of this day, again a wwarm hot day ...

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In the place Enschede in the east .... they have got a little flooding and hail ...

[garrin]

Those are absolutely the most amazing lightning photos I have ever seen!  If my printer was working I would have then all over my office wall.

Thanks from Garrin in Hawai'i.

[BobbyinNY]

robbin,

those are INCREDIBLE photos... I have never seen anything like that in my life.. We get alot of thunder & lightening storms here in NY, but nothing like that..... That looks like something out of a horror movie.

[steve 9atx]

Yea, lightning is no joke if you're anywhere near it.  Just this past April 25, I was watching the weather getting ready for work - we had a thunderstorm passing through at around 30 mph from the west.  I was in the bathroom when, BOOOOOOOM! as in sonic boom.  For a split second, everything turned blue.  All the lights, A/C, tv's, etc. lurched off for a second or two but came back on.  Then my wife hollered that something in the kitchen was on fire. The smell of smoke led me to the phone system which was fried.  I ran up into the attic, but luckily no fire there.  I was convinced that lightning had struck the house.

It took us a few days to do a post-mortem on the lightening strike, but we finally figured out what happened: the lightening had actually struck a 75-year-old pecan tree in the backyard which is around 6'-8' from our detached garage and 25' or so from the house.  The tree is probably 70' tall and has two major trunks which divide around 12' above the ground.  The lightning blew a straight run of bark (not the spiral pattern you often see) about 8"-10" wide up (or down) both trunks from the top of the tree to about 12' where it apparantly arced over to the garage.  This was as good thing as my arborist told me that if the strike damage continued into the ground, that meant the roots were fried and the tree was a goner.  I've had the wounds sprayed for insects and still have hope I can nurse the tree through the summer.  So far, so good.

As it turned out, it blew out our phone system, garage door opener including the photosensors, a GFCI outlet outside, a fluorescent light ballast in the garage, all the outdoor lamps that were burning on a photocell (but oddly enough not the dimmers/photocells themselves), the tv cable where it connected at the power pole, the cable booster/transformer (blown into 100 pieces), and seemingly all tv cables and connectors from the pole into the house. Unfortunately, it also fried my home theatre receiver which was on a surge protector (yea, right) and my cable modem, but just as fortunately, not my PC.  It was just wierd how it fried some things and not others.

In any case, I've learned my lesson about the healthy respect I should have for this phenomenon.  It's funny that lightening strikes probably 30 times a second worldwide, but we don't give it a second thought until it's real close.

Steve

[Walter John]

Interesting Strike Star maps around

USA

Australia/New Zealand

Europe

But you can't go past Wally's Weather

WallysWeather

[Bilbo]

That threatened thunderstorm is on its way - I can feel it.

Thats true tho it sounds strange - the air is close and humid- and the sky is darkening . . .

I will even be dissapointed if we dont get loadsa rain as its good for the garden as a whole and especially some palms to whom I gave high Ni.

Regardez amigos

Juan

[Neofolis]

We have had thunderstorms threatened for a while, but nothing has come to fruition yet.  Much of the UK has had some fairly major flooding over the past day or two though, with more heavy rainfall forecast.  I love summer.

Last year some lightning struck a floodlight just a few feet beyond our property boundary and it made an incredible noise, like a really loud gunshot, followed by the obligatory burning smell.  I was just pleased that it wasn't my polytunnel on fire.

[Jason Baker Portugal]

It has been raining here too for about a week and will continue for a while. That is very unusual here in the summer and it is great not having to water the garden.

[Gaston in Argentina]

Robin.

Incredible pictures! Thanks for share.- Those thunderstorms look like our summerthunderstorms that occur after some days of high temperature and when the cold front come.-The same our come with hail sometime.- Heavy rainfall and flooding occur always here also.-

Backly, here in the south we are getting a rare climate fenomena for our place, a snowfall, also my city, not registered since 1873:

Historical snowfall in Cordoba

[Exotic Life]

Thanks, i share the picture's to you people with fun ... i'm also a extreme weather lover ...

But the thunderstorms this year/summer are a lot heavier then normal, last week again a people are died, and damage to homes ...

Robbin