HUGE Positive Lightning Hit!

[cdcollura]

Hello all,

I stumbled across this picture where a "positive giant", those incredibly intense ground to anvil (positive) lightning strikes, the same ones you hear AND feel in your chest 30 seconds after the flash - Just feet away from the camera man!

I even heard close hits of such a strike can create such a powerful shock-wave that windows can be broken / wall plaster cracked!

The site this picture was from is http://teslamania.delete.org/frames/longarc.htm

Chris C - KG4PJN

 

[Jeff Miller]

HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is beyond description!!!!!!!!!!!

Absolutely amazing shot.

 

[Joel Wright]

That has to be the most incredible lightning pic I've ever seen. That had to be loud as hell!

 

[David Wolfson]

Holy moley! Bert Hickman's site is something else! Check out his storing 1000J at 2 megaVolts inside a block of Lexan and squeezing quarters into dimes! :shock:

Definitely one cure for SDS....

 

[Steve_Stuck]

Wow!!! How did the camera stay on the tripod?

Nevermind...just saw that it was 4 second exposure on the bumper of his car.

 

[Susan Strom]

That moves me to tears LOL

I've seen that name before...Kane Quinnell. Looks like he's as obsessed with lightning as I am...AND you have to see the sculptures (bottom of page) Frozen lightning in Plexiglas...check those out, how cool and a half.

http://teslamania.delete.org/frames/longarc.htm

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpic.../lightning.mpeg

I posted this on here before, but some might have missed it. If you like close lightning strikes you'll enjoy this. I can't imagine there being a closer strike caught on video. A friend captured it in 2004.

If that isn't a great reason to stay in the car I'm not sure what is. If you slow it down you can see how the lightning channel looks wider than it actually is. I imagine the above amazing still is the same deal....just looks super fat.

 

[Susan Strom]

Whoa, intense, and you can see channel breakup too. Dangerous, but I still think it's great.

 

[Andrew Khan]

Is negative any different....? This may be a stupid question, but honestly I have no idea the answer to it.

This may also interest people who's interests become aroused by very close lightning strikes...this i mage was so close to the photographer that he even felt the shock in his body just like the guy in the other image.

Oh, and what is "Channel Breakup"?

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

Oh, and what is "Channel Breakup"?
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Andrew Khan

Watch the video I posted but stop it on the flash and move the bar around to see it closer to frame by frame and you can see the lightning channel breaking up.

 

[David Drummond]

I disclaim any responsibility for any of those close strikes. I swear I wasn't even in the area. :lol: :lol:

 

[Greg Campbell]

I'm wondering the same as Andrew: How can you tell the difference?

If you're close enough, shooting at a low f ratio, and using fast film or a high ISO setting, any lighting will look thermonuclear.

-Greg

 

[Darin Brunin]

Here is a close strike from this past year. From what Dick and I can tell it struck in the ditch beside us.

http://shadowoftheanvil.com/close7305.wmv

 

[Marko Korosec]

Oh man, thats incredible shot!!

I experienced some close strikes last year, I felt it in chests...believe me its not a nice feeling afterall

 

[Jeff Snyder]

Originally posted by Marko Korosec
Oh man, thats incredible shot!!

I experienced some close strikes last year, I felt it in chests...believe me its not a nice feeling afterall

I've experienced that as well. I was chasing on April 30th, 2004, down near Ryan, OK... A lightning stike hit in a field immediately to our left as we were driving east ahead of the storm. Right as it hit, I felt a large, and quite discomforting, jolt in my chest. My fiance felt it as well, and I think Gabe and maybe Phil did too (I think they were with me that day). Regardless, it was an unnerving feeling.

Great shot.