Electrical Storm......

[observe]

Around here in the Highveld,if you are out there hunting and a big storm comes up, it can very quickly became a survival situation!
November Pretoria electrical thunderstorm!
Be careful .......

 

[Boyd Brooks]

Looks like the start of “The Terminator” movie! Awesome photo.

 

[HuntingGold]

Wow!

 

[Pheroze]

Holy moly. No metal poles on the tents over there!

 

[cls]

Very cool picture. Wouldn't want to be standing around with a rifle when that storm passed over.

 

[meigsbucks]

Looks like an alien attack from a movie. Great photo.

 

[Brent in Az]

That's some "War of the Worlds" stuff.

 

[fourfive8]

Those systems are impressive and more than a little scary! Been in a few of them and coincidentally one was in Johannesburg about six or seven years ago. I wouldn't doubt the one pictured at Pretoria was forming sprites above it. I think there has been sprite studies from the ISS because they can monitor what is going on top those systems- including sprite formation. I watched a documentary not long ago about those massive electrical storms and that area of South Africa was one of the hotspots for them known around the planet.

 

[Randy F]

Golf anyone?

 

[browningbbr]

Golf anyone?

Bring your 1 iron. Even God can't hit one.

 

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[Zambezi]

Was playing a round of golf at Kabwe course in 1994 and one of those brewed up. I was standing under a huge tree for shelter when I remembered it was probably not the place to stand. Walked back to the clubhouse in the rain. Naturally it was the day I forgot my golf umbrella! Caddie was NOT chuffed at all!! He got a bigger tip that day...

 

[Newboomer]

Was playing a round of golf at Kabwe course in 1994 and one of those brewed up. I was standing under a huge tree for shelter when I remembered it was probably not the place to stand. Walked back to the clubhouse in the rain. Naturally it was the day I forgot my golf umbrella! Caddie was NOT chuffed at all!! He got a bigger tip that day...

And to think that as kids we used to sit on the front porch--in a metal lawn chair--and watch the lightning.

 

[Zambezi]

And to think that as kids we used to sit on the front porch--in a metal lawn chair--and watch the lightning.

Yep did that too. Last time was 2006 when I return to SA from living in the UK. Visiting the Thanbazimbi / Northam area where there is plenty iron ore mining so lightening loves the place. Also decided to move inside when the strikes were getting out of hand....

 

[Zambezi]

I read somewhere, many years ago, that the highest strikes per kilometer was somewhere in south of France with Matabeleland second with all those granite kopjies.

 

[404Jeffry]

Climate change,
Joe Biden

 

[Just Gina]

Climate change,
Joe Biden

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