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Topic started on 4-6-2009 @ 01:25 PM by double_frick

Even a veteran weather watcher and former Midswesterner was impressed with the lightning. Citrus Heights resident Joe Cronin, who retired from the National Weather Service in Sacramento in 1993, worked for many years as a government meteorologist in Green Bay, Wis. He's seen his share of thunderstorms here and in Wisconsin -- but last night was something to behold. "It was the most impressive display of lightning I have ever seen," Cronin said. "That storm was unique -- just so much lightning. Vivid displays. It was so extended. A lot of time in the Midwest you will have a cold frontal passage with good, strong thunderstorms with it. But they move through. There was more lightning last night than I have ever seen before."

source
map of strikes

amazing picture slideshow


i spent summers in tempe, arizona when i was young...and i LOVED monsoon season. lightning is beautiful. i loved nothing more than dancing in the hot summer rain watching the lightning listening to the thunder. i say this because, as the quote above, i have NEVER seen a thunderstorm like this.

the first one that blew through barely got us but we could see it going by with the lightning, we watched for a long time. then we went to sleep as they said that was it for the night, as far as lightning...well it woke me from my sleep later.

i was trying to get some video of it but i was too scared to even go outside with the camera...in fact i was too scared to go out my front door. thunder felt like it actually shook the ground and it definitely shook the walls and the windows. you could hear the storm coming and sometimes the lightning was so immense that the whole sky just lit up and you couldn't see anything but light. it was just a constant stream of lightning and the thunder didn't come just in booms, it was a constant rumble...with occasional booms of thunder. and i don't know if this is possible or common, but i think i could actually hear electricity from the lightning it was so big and close. literally over head. scary stuff.

the reason i'm posting is, IS THIS NORMAL????

i don't ever remember storms like this in sacramento, this was even more fierce than the most violent monsoon i've seen in arizona.
though there was very little rain and in arizona it dumps.
also, the first storm was semi-close...close enough i think thunder should have been present, but no thunder...just lightning and a light wind.

i remember this sparked huge fires last year...and i thought the same thing...
uncharacteristic for this region and especially this time of year!

what could the uses be for causing these storms or would lightning be a by-product of some other meddling? Haarp? but why?


reply posted on 4-6-2009 @ 04:42 PM by uk today
reply to post by double_frick

The lightning storm certainly looks very impressive.
Weather patterns throughout the world are going through catastrophic change at the moment--whether it be global warming or not.
There have been records broken all over the world in the past year on extreme rainfall events, record breaking temperatures,droughts, tornado events and increased winds etc.
IMO the planet's self-regulatory system seems to be in turmoil and struggling to cope.
Extreme weather will certainly increase in the near future and intense lightning will be part of the dramatic climate change.


reply posted on 4-6-2009 @ 07:13 PM by double_frick
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how do you get invited to that?
i think i would...i do love lightning.
though i didn't know how scary it was...or how scared it could make me, i guess...until last night.


reply posted on 4-6-2009 @ 07:57 PM by Miraj
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Odd, I've been getting a bit of a storm up here in portland. Not too bad though, just flickering lights, and the power went out for a minute.


reply posted on 5-6-2009 @ 05:59 AM by winotka
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Would you be able to get pictures of the animals hoarding? Thanks.

We can get storms like this in TN, but the weather pattern seems to have shifted about 3 wks. We seem to be recovering from a 3 yr. drought.

I think as we get closer to the end of our Julian calendar, there will continue to be changes in the seasonal patterns. However, I do believe there is global warming/climate change/earth's self-biofeedback.


reply posted on 5-6-2009 @ 06:42 AM by karl 12
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Double_frick -great post
Theres an ultra slow motion video of a lighting strike
here -crazy stuff!
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Cheers.



reply posted on 5-6-2009 @ 02:09 PM by fraterormus
Originally posted by winotka
Would you be able to get pictures of the animals hoarding? Thanks.


I will try and get some pictures of the birds flocking and animals hoarding this weekend.

Here is a picture of the storm on Sunday here in Southern Oregon (the Thunderstorms have been non-stop every day since then)



We have an unusually large Robin who nests on our porch every year (our pet Budgie that is inside right near the porch mimics the Robin's calls when he hears her, so I think that's probably why she returns year after year...they probably are friends and share gossip). Last year we found it odd because she laid her 4 eggs in mid-June and 2 weeks later both she and her 3 babies were gone (apparently one of the eggs didn't make it). She returned this year, made another nest in early May and only laid 2 eggs this year. They already hatched a couple weeks ago and the babies are already as large as her. It looks like they are getting ready to leave again. (I wish my Budgie would speak English so he could tell me what's going on, but I've never had any success in getting him to talk, even though they have an amazing capacity for language comprehension...better than humans!)

The Scrub-Jays are still mating, so they're probably going to stick around, but most of them don't usually migrate South as our climate is so mild year round.

The Blackbirds and Starlings, however, are the ones that are flocking en mass, going from tree to tree rounding each other up. They didn't do this until mid-July last year, which was far earlier than previous years (and sure enough Winter did come in mid-September and was much harsher than previous years). Previous to last year they didn't start flocking until mid-September.

Regardless of whether these daily electrical storms which are happening 3 months earlier than usual is caused by Global Climatic Change or by HARP, the animals are certainly taking notice and changing their ways as well.
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