Christ on a bike.
(Woke up about twenty minutes back thanks to a *MASSIVE* blast that had to have been near overhead that sounded like a garbage truck exploding in a dumpster. Further blasts and rain followed.)
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Austin's been getting rumbly thunder and cloud-to-cloud lightning all night... fantastic.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah I was driving over the Congress bridge about 11ish to get to graveyard shift and I looked west and saw the coolest yellow cloud-to-cloud stuff. If I hadn't been running late I would have stopped to take a photo.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 09:41 (fifteen years ago) link
had crazy cloud-to-cloud lightning last night, very unusual for Oregon.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 3 June 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I was running late at Town Lake when I saw most of it! Was worried I wouldn't make back to my car before a deluge, but it never did actually rain on me.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
IT IS THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!
― James Mitchell, Thursday, 16 July 2009 22:34 (fourteen years ago) link
holy fuck this thunder is loud
― vike me down (dyao), Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:04 (fourteen years ago) link
but can you FEEL it?
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 6 May 2010 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
it's really thundering and raining here. i'm away from my house, but i left my box fan running in the window. i'm assuming it's getting wet. is this really dangerous or is the worst that's likely to happen is i ruin my fan? should i run home and turn it off even if it's inconvenient?
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
might short and cause your fuse to trip?
― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
hmmm. maybe. i guess that itself wouldn't be the end of the world. i just don't want it to cause a fire or something... obv.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
seems like the worst possible outcome is 'electrical fire'
― british sb power (dayo), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link
but it's raining so that should put out the fire
― british sb power (dayo), Wednesday, June 8, 2011 8:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
aieeeeee
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 9 June 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe i'll go home.
A new world record lightning has been recorded! A World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has established two new world records for the longest reported distance and the longest reported duration for a single lightning flash. The longest lightning flash duration is now set at more than 16 seconds in Argentina, while the longest distance is set at more than 700 km (nearly 450 miles) in Brasil!
just trying to imagine what a 450 mile lightening flash that isn't on one of the gas giants, but here on this rock, looks like. jeez!
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:51 (three years ago) link
comma comma comma chameleon!
― calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
That's terrifying.
― peace, man, Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:43 (three years ago) link
Feeling half dead today after being kept awake last night by what seemed to be endless thunderstorms.
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:36 (one month ago) link
I didn't hear a thing!
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:41 (one month ago) link
This is my favourite website - https://www.lightningmaps.org/
― Maresn3st, Thursday, 2 May 2024 10:50 (one month ago) link
This was last night in SE England:
https://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:39 (one month ago) link
This is why I never use imgur
http://imgur.com/gG5M0jJ
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:40 (one month ago) link
Ok, you just have to imagine it, while I crawl back to the mid-'00s and Flickr BBCodes
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:41 (one month ago) link
Yeah slept through last night's. Looked at the radar map and seems a bit unusual for the storms to drift from south-east to north west as they seem to be.
― nashwan, Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:49 (one month ago) link
Thunder connoisseurs prefer Blitzortung
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 2 May 2024 12:55 (one month ago) link