Amazing Storm
on Mark Sidey (Ethiopia), 18/Jun/2009 05:31, 34 days ago
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On Wednesday night there was another amazing storm. At around 1900 there was the high gusts of wind which usually signify an incoming big downpour. During the next 30 minutes, I estimate about 20mm of rain fell and the lighting was amazing. Each individual stroke was a multiple flash of maybe 5-10 rapid flashes, and there were whole sequences of strokes one following another right across the sky. Maybe more than one different stroke per second.Unfortunately, most of the strokes were obscured by cloud, but every-so-often there was a stroke in the clear.This picture is a composite image I made of one series of strikes over 1-2 seconds that went across the sky.
