Unusual Lightning Where You Are?

[Serendipity]

There was no rain and lightnings were somehow different then ''usual'' lightnings.

What I meant to say was that thunder sounded different, not lightnings. My apologies :)

 

[Al Today]

When we are lucky enough to have some rain, yes, the lightening appears more intense, in strikes and volume. I too, have been instinctively afraid to go out into the rain. It's almost like something within is warning me to stay indoors.
The thunder is also more extreme. Rolling on for what seems many more miles, longer in duration, and rumbles deeper into the ground. I feel the ground vibrate, longer and deeper.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm more aware of the environment, or if my perceptions are biased based on this subject that keeps coming up. I think this because of other things I have been "seeing", or think I've been seeing. Like shadows and hues of blue.

Except for some off the cuff, one-liner remarks, I do not talk about these things.

 

[Gawan]

Yesterday there was a light show for over half an hour with a maximum of 2 seconds break where no lightnings could be seen.

And here are some links I could find on German news:

one farmer hit by lighning - dead
15 hikers hit by lightning - injured
one man and one children got killed due to lightning in different places
2 injured in Hamburg
365 thousand lightnings at one weekend in Germany
fallow deer got hit - 8 dead
lightning strikes music festival - 51 injured

and this one

lightning strikes Hollandes air plane on his way to Germany

Lightning kills 3 women on German golf course
http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120630-43469.html

The fourth woman died in hospital later on.

 

[Renaissance]

There's been lots of strange lightning here this past month. We've recently had two lightning storms that both took out our electricity for the night. The whole sky is pretty bizzare. There was also one night when I slept through a huge thunder and lightning storm, but one of the members of my family said was incredible seeing the lightning in the sky - that it was more like giant webs connecting throughout the sky than normal lightning. The thunder is also rolling and lasting a lot longer. I heard on the radio last week that one guy in a bordering state was hit by lightning.

 

[Beau]

Last month I was visiting my hometown in Wisconsin and I saw the most intense heat lightning storm I had ever seen in the area. My friend was with me at the time and even he had to admit he had never seen a lightning storm quite like it in the area, and he's lived there for over 30 years. It was just non-stop lightning in huge storm clouds. My friend is an electrician so I asked him if he's had anything weird happen on the job lately and he said that this year, he's had some of the strangest service calls and that it's been unlike any other year he's worked as an electrician, over 10 years. I was going to ask him to elaborate on that but we got interrupted by a phone call so I never got to follow up on it. I also told him about the two children who were electrocuted in that lake in Missouri without lightning actually striking and he said that their had to be an open conduit going in to the lake. I asked him if their wasn't, what would the explanation be and he couldn't answer but the thought did seem to unnerve him a little.

 

[shijing]

Similar to what Heimdallr described above, I was driving home from shopping two nights ago, and the sky was lit with one lightning flash after another the whole 20 minutes I was on the road. It was constant, just one after another, the entire time -- I'd never seen anything like it before.

 

[3DStudent]

The thunder is also rolling and lasting a lot longer.

I've noticed this too. I remember one storm a few weeks ago the thunder was a long lasting grinding sound. I confirmed that sound with my parents, who heard it too. And I wear earplugs and sleep pretty soundly through the night.

 

[cubbex]

Cosmos cleaning the house?

 

[Voyageur]

To help find lightning strike activity/concentrations, where media searches can then focus, here are a couple of lightning strike map sites for both Europe/ US/Canada (have not found a decent one yet for below the equator). Most forest services receive very accurate strike maps with UTM/GPS coordinates, which they then fly for wildfire ocular identification starts.

In Europe: (Switzerland as example)
_http://en.allmetsat.com/images/lightning-switzerland.php

US/Canada
_http://www.strikestarus.com/

As an aside, there are also hand held unites, often used for crane operators, that detect (discharges) approaching lightning at distances – here is an example _http://www.skyview.co.uk/deptc1/acatalog/Skyscan_Model_P5.html

In BC, things have been less then usual for lightning strikes this year thus far:

Below average fire season

...Between Sunday and Monday, there were 52 new fires caused by lightning in the province, though most covered an area of less than one hectare.

The forest service is currently tracking nearly 100 significant fires across B.C., but so far the 2012 forest fire season has been below average when it comes to the number of fires reported, and almost none have posed a serious threat to people or their homes.

As of Monday, the province saw nearly 1,100 fires since April 1, far below the 10-year average of roughly 1,600 by this time, said Catherall.

Last year, considered one of the slowest seasons on record, there were fewer than 500 fires on the books by mid-August....

In Toronto there was some wild storms: one depicted here: _http://www.mikelastphoto.com/blog/2011/08/wild-weather-in-toronto/

Here is a comprehensive list of people or things getting hit by lightning: Note, "lightning" named sports team are not filtered out and a few of the posts above are repeated here.

Lightning News _http://www.infopig.com/keywords/Lightning.html

 

[Ekios]

There was no rain and lightnings were somehow different then ''usual'' lightnings.

What I meant to say was that thunder sounded different, not lightnings. My apologies :)

I agree with that, as I posted somewhere else, the last big storm I got here surprised me not only by its type of wind but by its sound. I felt like in a giant metal box, the sound of the thunders was really metallic/different/weird. I always LOVED storms, but that one, when I think about it, i'm still having a little ball in my stomach.

The thunder is also rolling and lasting a lot longer.

I've noticed this too. I remember one storm a few weeks ago the thunder was a long lasting grinding sound. I confirmed that sound with my parents, who heard it too. And I wear earplugs and sleep pretty soundly through the night.

I second that too.

 

[cassandra]

There was no rain and lightnings were somehow different then ''usual'' lightnings.

What I meant to say was that thunder sounded different, not lightnings. My apologies :)

I agree with that, as I posted somewhere else, the last big storm I got here surprised me not only by its type of wind but by its sound. I felt like in a giant metal box, the sound of the thunders was really metallic/different/weird. I always LOVED storms, but that one, when I think about it, i'm still having a little ball in my stomach.

The thunder is also rolling and lasting a lot longer.

I've noticed this too. I remember one storm a few weeks ago the thunder was a long lasting grinding sound. I confirmed that sound with my parents, who heard it too. And I wear earplugs and sleep pretty soundly through the night.

I second that too.

Yes, I used to feel exhilerated by storms, now I shut all the windows in case of lightening. I thought the thunder had a weird echo, but I can't seem to express what I mean properly by this.
More storms are forecast throughout Germany this week...

 

[Gwenllian]

A few weeks ago (?) we had some serious thunder here, too, during the night (The Netherlands). It was so loud and powerful, that I felt afraid the whole time it was going on. I asked my oldest son if he had also heard it and whether he also thought that it was different this time. He agreed.

 

[Kaigen]

I found this recently


Two cousins killed in lightning strike in Indonesia

Yesterday my Wife told me two women was killed also not far from here.

http://hochi.yomiuri.co.jp/topics/news/20120819-OHT1T00293.htm

 

[Deleted member 8431]

Yes.

I live in Québec province about 100 km north of Maine State.

More and more unusually intense lightning shows, especially this summer.

About a month or so ago, there was a light show that lasted for about 30-40 min and during about 15 of those minutes, there was a lightning per second or so.

I had never seen that in my entire life. It was mind-boggling. I watched it happen from start to finish thinking about Cassiopaean stuff. Very unusual ''walls of clouds'' as well and other funnel-like formations.

Weird stuff is going on for sure.

 

[Ekios]

Yes.

I live in Québec province about 100 km north of Maine State.

More and more unusually intense lightning shows, especially this summer.

About a month or so ago, there was a light show that lasted for about 30-40 min and during about 15 of those minutes, there was a lightning per second or so.

I had never seen that in my entire life. It was mind-boggling. I watched it happen from start to finish thinking about Cassiopaean stuff. Very unusual ''walls of clouds'' as well and other funnel-like formations.

Weird stuff is going on for sure.

Yep, those words would fit what I saw.