Close up of lightning strikes caught on video

Stumbled across this. Its quite impressive. Please excuse the language of the chap in the second clip. I don't think he meant it, he was just expressing his mild surprise at one he'd just caught.

 

...Amazing...i wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of those

 

Some fantastic strikes there

 

Cracking strikes there

 

Be careful what you wish for.

 

Cor

 

Years ago I was sat at my desk at work one day during a thunderstorm. It was clearly close, as there was very little delay between flash and rumble, and the rumbles were nice and sharp. Suddenly there was a most impressive bang, and everything in the office immediately went off. We we got pour back a couple of hours later, we did a stock check to see if all our gear was ok. Not bad. Only 4 computers damaged, and only superficial. Just massive corruption of data on the hard disks but no lasting physical damage. Took the rest of the day doing restores from backup and reinstalling Windows from scratch in one case (my machine, as sod's law would have it). Nothing quite on the scale of those in the video. Luckily nothing actually blew up.

 

I've been in this situation three times FC, thunderbolts are not a nice thing to experience.....they scare me big style now!

 

Shows the power of nature