Fascinating photos.
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/w...408041646-slideshow/
In an electrical storm, the storm clouds are charged like giant capacitors in the sky. The upper portion of the cloud is positive and the lower portion is negative.
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Nice.
I took this shot off my front porch a couple years ago.
Wow, beautiful. Especially the ones with the volcano. Puppy, were you trying to take a pic of lightening?
Had a friend that was doing yard work with thunder and lightening in the distance. One struck near him and knocked him out but fortunately he wasn't hurt worse. Lost his sight and hearing for a moment. So now I always go indoors when I hear thunder.
We had a goat killed by a strike. Had a hole in it's hoof where it exited.
Nice.
I took this shot off my front porch a couple years ago.
That's awesome RP. Was that by accident or were you trying to do it? Very cool either way.
I took a video of the storm and chopped the best frames out. 
The NWS says that if you're close enough to hear thunder, you're close enough to be hit by lightning.
I watched a line while in holding over Texas one night that was astounding. Strikes to ground about every 15 seconds for about a 45 minutes and when they connected to ground they intensified in brightness and pulsed it was a amazing sight from 330.
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I had a similar experience about two years ago on a late night flight to LAX. Somewhere over Arizona we passed thru a window between two large thuderstorms. The lightning was spectacular, but what was even more spectacular were the large number of planes passing above and below us in the tight window trying to avoid the storm. I saw at least 20 plane, some seperated by 1000' altitude less than a mile apart passing betweenst those supercells. The background with the lightning and the ground strikes was simply amazing. I was blessed to get to see it.
I took a video of the storm and chopped the best frames out.
The NWS says that if you're close enough to hear thunder, you're close enough to be hit by lightning.
Ahhh. That's cool. I've done that with video before but never with lightning. You've given me some ideas.
Storms are brewing up again.
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Best thing you ever posted, Roland. I passed it on to the outdoorsey members of my family--which means just about the entire family--immediate and extended--plus several others, including some golfers. A former college friend and classmate of mine was killed by lightning while golfing in Georgia. He was in his early 30s.
Something to remember about lightning: Whenever there is lightning/thunder activity anywhere nearby, it is important to get to shelter. One does not need to be at or very near the center of such activity; being on what might seem the distant fringes can also put one at risk. When in doubt--go hide out!
