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Well there's a good ol' storm going on in Welly right now, so I decided to go to our big window overlooking The airport Miramar North, I saw a few good flashes, then after maybe 2 minutes, there was a brilliant blinding flash , and a house about 200m from me was hit by a huge bolt. At the same time there was the biggest roar I have ever heard, which sent the previously unphased dog running under the bed. I know it sounds a bit boring on 'paper' but considering we never get thunderstorms, but that has to be one of the most incredible things I have ever seen.


Wow! As I was typing this, a house in Maupuia, on the far side of the valley just got hit again. . this sh*t's wild!

I caught it on video.

Holy [swear word here] it was the biggest I've ever seen
Should I upload the video showing the biggest flashes?

I saw one sky-ground contact in the harbour as well.

Kelburn wrote:

QUOTE(Kelburn @ Oct 7 2007, 07:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I caught it on video.

Holy [swear word here] it was the biggest I've ever seen
Should I upload the video showing the biggest flashes?

I saw one sky-ground contact in the harbour as well.

Duh..

I would've, but one camera's flat, and Dad took the other one flying. I guess that means he might have some good shots when he gets home.

Yeah seriously that vid would be great.

will do tomorrow no time right now

Man we get those all the time over here

Best ones I've ever seen were in Asia during the monsoon season its just a continuous succession of lighting and thunder you get them like that at least a couple of times a year in NZ at least its good for our ozone layer.

u guys should come to my place during storm season ( summer )

this was in Jan this yr

YEah I did see a few on my way home from Europe. 4 at the same time over India, and another when wee took off in Kuala Lumpur.

Here's the video (sorry took a while to upload)

Anyone seen any Mexican thunderstorms? They are truley something. The sound of whip cracking(or towel!!) and the bright yellow light in the sky!
Have you seen massive lightning strikes from a plane window above it? truely amazing!!

ooOO00OOoo wrote:

QUOTE(ooOO00OOoo @ Oct 8 2007, 04:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Have you seen massive lightning strikes from a plane window above it? truely amazing!!

Yep on Thursday

Two years ago while in a holding pattern waiting on a Heathrow slot we were hit by lightening. It was a huge bang! Its a great way to make the pax go silent. Took the usual 10 mins or so for the FD to report what it was and that we hadn't lost an engine even though it may have sounded that way.

Even better was a quick explanation about how an aircraft disperses electricity through all the wands on the wings etc after being hit .

Nice video Tui- but it doesn't look that scary lol. I've seen massive sheet lightning in the Canary Islands when I was a kid, and that scared the cr@p out of me at the time!

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE(Trolly @ Oct 8 2007, 06:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice video Tui- but it doesn't look that scary lol. I've seen massive sheet lightning in the Canary Islands when I was a kid, and that scared the cr@p out of me at the time!

Yea it looked better from my place

LOL i was going for a walk round the Brisbane outskirts and this bolt of lightening hit this tree about 200m away. That scared me...

I saw on the news last night that a RNZAF B757 was stuck by lightning over Australia and had to make an emergency landing at Brisbane.

Trolly wrote:

QUOTE(Trolly @ Oct 9 2007, 06:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I saw on the news last night that a RNZAF B757 was stuck by lightning over Australia and had to make an emergency landing at Brisbane.

it's funny how sometimes a plane can be hit, and sometimes nothing happens at all, and sometimes it can even cause the aircraft to crash. Does it depend on where it hits or what?

Yeah generally what happens to aircraft is a phenomenon called St Elmos fire, what happens is the static electricity builds up on the fuselage and at night the nose of the aircraft glows. Every so often though they get struck by lightning generally like St Elmos fire the charge goes around the airframe causing no damage but sometimes they get unlucky and the lightning damages things such as antennae and thats where you get problems.

Check out this video of St Elmos fire:


The most dangerous thing about thunder storms isn't just the lighting it is also the ice and updraft/downdraft which is a hazzard to aircraft.

Lightning:


LMAO check this out Tornado:

Weather is usally the first thing you talk about when you have nothing to talk about ,,"lovely weather today isnt it " yeah nice "good bye "
glad this topic has turned into a aircraft and weather type topic ...

just to keep ya happy mike

last night would have looked good on APP for SY.

"had a MAJOR storm front pass over the hunter valley last night, hit in 3 waves. first two killed the power and bought hail, the 3rd this morning was more tame. will post videos later today."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5xyYxhhyx8