Do You Like Lightning?

I do. I have sat outside just to watch it and have seen some awesome lightning over the years be it cloud to cloud or cloud to ground, but I have to say this is awesome.

Here is a pic I took several years ago.

Oh yeah, shes very attrative , one of my favourite female protagonist from video games?

Put the booze down and slowly back away from it and go to bed. :P

Definitely... I love lightning and thunder. It's fascinating. It's pretty, yet so powerful and ominous.

Sure. Have had a few close strikes in my day, but I still enjoy the beauty (and physics) of it.

FYI: lightning bolts start at the ground and go up.

Nope. We get spectacular lightning shows here during the monsoon season. Don't forget, lightning can strike you from as far as 25 miles away. I watch them from the safety of my home (inside).

I prefer to take photos of cumulonimbus clouds....before the lightning show starts.

@jun_aka_pekto said:

Yeah I prefer to give those anvil-tops a wide birth while flying. The turbulence around those things will sling you about like nothing. Pretty from the ground, not want I want to see in flight.

Yup. There are columns of updrafts and downdrafts within a cumulonimbus cloud. Nasty stuff. Here's one of my favorites. ;) Cumulonimbus wall cloud.

I wasn't working that day which was why I was able to grab a camera and snap some photos.

Like many places, in the heat and humidity of summer a nice day can turn bad fast. Crabbing a small Cessna down on a dirt runway when the trees are blowing sideways is not something I consider fun.

I love to watch storms from the ground, but if I'm in the air and I see those anvils starting to fan out I head right for home.

Another thing I hate to see is clear sky behind me and a solid blanket of clouds ahead. I know there's some bumping coming up...

Google volcano lighting.

is pretty much the coolest thing you'll ever see

Interesting to watch, but overall no, I have a phobia with lightning.

Very true. Same principle at work as well.

This is typical of thunderstorms here during monsoon season. Call me a wuss. But, I'm not going out there. Heeeell. No. ;)

@WhiteKnight77: Can i atleast take Lightning to the bed with me ? ^-^

Mmmmmmmmmmmm yes, I even like it in my volcano eruptions

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@WhiteKnight77 said:

Here is a pic I took several years ago.

i've been wanting to build a little light-trigger for my camera to try to capture some cool lighting photos during summer storms. was this just a long exposure that got lucky?

@comp_atkins said:

@WhiteKnight77 said:

Here is a pic I took several years ago.

i've been wanting to build a little light-trigger for my camera to try to capture some cool lighting photos during summer storms. was this just a long exposure that got lucky?

If I remember right, I set the timer to automatically trip the shutter and set a long exposure time as that camera (advanced point and shoot) does not have a way to hold the shutter open with a remote cable. The other lightning photographs I have taken was with my new camera which does allow for longer exposure times using the bulb setting. These are some of them.

I love watching it when I'm inside but I definitely don't like being outside in the midst of it.

the same) for me it's a little bit scary when I'm outside)

Due to the mountains and valleys in Norway we don't have much thunder and lightning. And what we have is usually pretty tame compared to what many of you people experience.

A fan of it, yes. A fan of what it does to you, no.

Thunderstorms are due to warm, unstable humid air colliding with cold dry air for the most part. I do not suspect Norway experiences the hot humid temperatures that we do in the US or other equatorial places get to enjoy. The southern area of the States get time in late winter and early spring while the upper portion of the US and lower portion of the Canadian midwest gets them later in the year and vice versa as the seasons change.

well they can go ground to cloud, cloud to ground or cloud to cloud.

I love watching thunderstorms but have had a few really close calls when on hikes. One time me and my group were walking along a ridge in the mountains when a thunderstorm started to get close, we had ice-axes on our backs and they started vibrating. We got out of there real quick needless to say

I should have said Strike, not bolts. Strikes are the ones that connect to the ground. What comes out of the sky is the plasma channel, the discharge of current when the plasma channel connects with a leader from the ground happens from the ground up. Thus the term 'return stroke'.

in ireland we dont get much really but i do like it when it comes. i also really miss snow :(.

It is really weird seeing so much green grass that far north when as far south as I live has brown grass at that time of year (I visited in November 2009).

@horgen: You can still get a thunderstorm once in a while. If an approaching system is strong enough, the orographic lift from the ocean to the mountains can induce thunderstorm formation.

The three main ingredients are there:

1. The ocean - moisture source

2. Lifting mechanism - Orographic lift (mountains)

3. Unstable air mass - colder air going over a warmer air mass or surface.

I used to see them a lot when I lived near hills.

I don't see any where I live now. :(

Can't enjoy lighting storms as two of my dogs don't enjoy the loud sounds. So we have to baby them during a lighting storm to calm them down. Along with fireworks.

After two close calls I'm okay with not seeing them unless it's in the distance.

That's why they freak out. They think "something's wrong" and then you react as if something is wrong (by calming them) so it re-enforces their fear. It's probably too late now, but in the future with another dog if you just act normal during a thunderstorm they will usually get over it.

@br0kenrabbit: We usually try to let them get a corner of the house they feel comfortable at to calm down. Babying them is a last resort. As it doesn't allow to get much done around the house.

We have two other dogs that were also largely raised with us since they were puppies. And they've never had an issue with lighting. The two that get scared are a mommy and daughter. The mom has always been afraid. And the daughter who looks to her mom for security and comfort. Likely is reacting to her mom's panic. As she doesn't get as bad.

Nice looking picture. =)

I prefer rainy nights.

I like lightning when I am in no danger of being struck, as in when I am in my house or car. However, I am a complete chicken when there's a storm when I have to get from point A to point B without any real protection.

But it is pretty.

Which one? And thank you.