An Incredible Image from Last Week's Oklahoma Tornadoes

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Glad I live in SOUTH Texas.

The Massive Lightning Strike at a Rangers'/Twins Game

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During the 4th inning of the Texas Rangers' game vs. the Minnesota Twins on July 8, 2012, a storm produced a thunder-clap that freaked-out everyone on the field like I've never seen before. I had one of these the other night at home that caused me to seriously worry about going outside to get a lawn mower out of a truck bed. I can totally relate to these players & umpires.

Here is the video. (Courtesy MLB)

Amazing Austin, TX Lightning Photo

Sunday night, May 6, 2012 - Looking south over the Hwy 360 (Pennybacker) bridge, and overlooking Austin Country Club.

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Mother Nature Caught

San Francisco's Bay Bridge struck by an intense amount of lightning -- Click to enlarge!

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Superstition Mountains, Tonto National Forest, Arizona

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Fantastic Lightning Capture

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Metallica - "Cyanide" practice & "Ride the Lightning"

Live in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October 25, 2011



Note: Skip to about the 6:00 mark to skip the meet & greet stuff.

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Some Incredible Grand Canyon Lightning

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Sweet Lightning Capture

CTE!

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My Gold! No!!!

CTE..

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Cloud Bully

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Breathtaking

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Some incredible lightning captured in front of what is apparently Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. Amazing!!

Arrggh - Gotta Look Elsewhere

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Lightning-Struck Lady Liberty Captured

This is the moment the Statue of Liberty was hit by lightning - and caught on camera by a photographer who waited two hours in a storm-hit New York City.

New Yorker Jay Fine apparently waited more than 40 years for the shot before braving the storm last month in Manhattan's Battery Park City.

The 58-year-old photographer caught the incredible snap - but it was a rather arduous process capturing the perfect picture.

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What Does This Remind You Of?

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How about Metallica - "Ride The Lightning"?

Now That's Just Awesome

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Lightning - At 9,000 Images Per Second

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Hurricane Season

...hopefully with no lightning!

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Lightning Climatology

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Where does lightning usually strike?

Lightning strikes the ground somewhere in the U.S. nearly every day of the year. Thunderstorms and lightning occur most commonly in moist warm climates. Data from the National Lightning Detection Network shows that over the continental U.S. an average of 20,000,000 cloud-to-ground flashes occur every year. Around the world, lightning strikes the ground about 100 times each second, or 8 million times a day. Ground-based systems don't tell us anything about lightning over the oceans, although a few science satellites have lightning detectors on them now. There are roughly 5 to 10 times as many cloud flashes as there are to cloud-to-ground flashes, so the total amount of lightning is quite a bit higher.

These conditions most often occur in summer. In general, the US mainland has a decreasing amount of lightning toward the northwest. Over the entire year, the highest frequency of cloud-to-ground lightning is in Florida between Tampa and Orlando. This is due to the presence, on many days during the year, of a large moisture content in the atmosphere at low levels (below 5,000 feet), as well as high surface temperatures that produce strong sea breezes along the Florida coasts. The western mountains of the US also produce strong upward motions and contribute to frequent cloud-to-ground lightning. There are also high frequencies along the Gulf of Mexico coast westward to Texas, the Atlantic coast in the southeast US, and inland from the Gulf. Regions along the Pacific west coast have the least cloud-to-ground lightning.

How often do positive cloud-to-ground strikes occur?

Worldwide, over an entire year, positive lightning strikes average 4-5%. Most storms start with mainly negative flashes, then have a higher ration of positives toward the end of their life cycle. In tornadoes and supercells, large numbers of positive flashes are common, and they appear to signal severe events. Positive ground flashes are often associated with the production of large hail.

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10 Minutes of Lightning in Timelapse

Simply beautiful!