I'm not that far away...in No. Sarasota off University Blvd,. which borders on Bradenton. We missed the hail, though.
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Lordyaswas
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Thu 17 Jul, 2014 08:29 pm
Guess what's just woken me up?
This one seems to be a gay pride thunderstorm, as the lightning is vivid pink.
The cat and dog have arrived. Cat sitting on the wondow sill and dog sitting by the bed, whacking me with his paw every time I stop patting his neck.
No doubt he will wheedle his way into the middle soon.
Way too hot and humid for 40 odd pound of dog to be draped over me.
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roger
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Thu 17 Jul, 2014 09:05 pm
We had a major thunderstorm this past Monday. I could tell by the mud drops on the windshield. Windscreen, as some might call it.
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Butrflynet
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Fri 26 Sep, 2014 12:06 pm
Some beauties captured last night by one of my dogpark friends who is a storm chaser/photographer. Another guy's lightning locator app had one of these bolts hitting about 850 feet from the dog park around the corner from us. That must have been the first lightning bolt of the storm that came on suddenly and shook our house. Thanks for the light show, Odile!
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Setanta
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Sat 27 Sep, 2014 02:24 am
That must have been in Nuevo Mexico . . . it's second only to Florida for lightening strikes in the U.S.
We had such a thunderstorm just a few weeks ago. There was a constant rumble as lightening played across the clouds and frequent loud booms as lightening strikes hit the ground. One of The Girl's friends took some very similar images with her cell phone camera.
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Setanta
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Sat 27 Sep, 2014 04:20 am
By the way, lightening strikes are so common in New Mexico that there are several mountain top sites for studying lightening. Central Florida is the only place in the U.S. with a higher frequency of lightening strikes.
Thanks Set, you're a good man.
I hate to be the one to say this, I embarrass myself sometimes, I wish it wasn't me, but maybe its a better thing I do than leaving it undone....
The word is lightning, not lightening.
what a night. Lightening and Dunner. Its gonna be a "Schnorkel" day. The road below our place is awash so no one will be coming out this way for many an hour during the morning.
It was perhaps the heaviest downpour Ive seen in 5 years or so. I checked the rain gage when I went out to the barn at 4 and its was 5" ( it topped out the gage.)
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realjohnboy
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Wed 22 Oct, 2014 03:10 pm
You know...this summer and fall we have had only a little handful of thunder and lightning storms here in the mountains of central Virginia. Strange.
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Region Philbis
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Sat 4 Apr, 2015 03:39 am
we just had our first thundah boomah of the season...
A beautiful summah rain. eve been having a bit of a drought in Pa and its at a crucial "budding out" n seed planting time.
We just took in about 10 acres pf 1st cutting alfalfa and we got it in just in time. (I did the baling and my AMish kid helpers put the hay up in the barn (while I went trout fishing)
I watched the Preakness on TV tonight and the heavens opened up. Litnin' crackled over the the tracks and the horses ran in the mud. About 20 minutes or less later, the storm hit our house and now I think its settling over Sandy Point where the first day of the Jazz Festival is underway.
Oddly coincidental, Here in s/w FL we just went through our thunder and lightning storms. It was really vicious an hour ago...now it's just got a bad case of agita! We're back in tis-the-season-to-be-boomy again. We are done with the semi-drought we had going on.
