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Post by OziRiS on Aug 28, 2016 19:48:23 GMT
Clouds were moving in from the West during sunset here as well, so I didn't see it either.
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 29, 2016 15:29:13 GMT
Nothing but clouds and occasional flashes of lightning here.
All I got was wet.
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Post by OziRiS on Aug 29, 2016 21:04:27 GMT
Speaking of ligthing, I saw the biggest bolt in my life the other night. This may not sound impressive to some of you, but until Saturday night I'd never seen a lightning bolt so long that it took up my entire field of vision and then some. I have now, and the thunder clap that followed it was so loud that the ground literally shook beneath my feet. Completely friggin' awesome!  |
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Post by ponytail61 on Aug 30, 2016 4:17:04 GMT
Speaking of ligthing, I saw the biggest bolt in my life the other night. This may not sound impressive to some of you, but until Saturday night I'd never seen a lightning bolt so long that it took up my entire field of vision and then some. I have now, and the thunder clap that followed it was so loud that the ground literally shook beneath my feet. Completely friggin' awesome! You all must be have some serious weather over there in Europe. Saw this story about 300+ reindeer getting fried on a hill in Norway the other day. Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in NorwayI've always liked to watch lightning. As a kid I would sit at the window during a storm and watch the steeple of the church across the street waiting for a strike. I loved when the thunderclap came at the same time as the lightning. |
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Post by silverdragon on Aug 30, 2016 5:36:05 GMT
We had an impressive one last year, no ground strikes, but it lit up the clouds, late evening, so nearly dark, but to have illuminated clouds wandering across overhead, was even better than a firework display...
The whole clouds lit up, without actually seeing the lightning bolts at all, so I suspect high level lightning from one cloud to the next.. I aint seen that in many years.
I just wish I had had a camera....
But then, chances of having it pointed at the right cloud at the right time would be slim, and it would need a time exposure because of the lack of light.
The noise?... well all of my Fish went and hid under the plant shelf, the dog was sat on my feet very close, and I was wearing ear plugs having just been in the workshop, which helped, but imagine a 200truck coal train overturning 100ft away from you and causing an avalanche of 1,000 tons of coal down your ear?..
I would say slightly louder than a AvRoe Vulcan, at 20 paces, which is impressive.
And yes, it did set off various car alarms in the area. Several times.
I have been on quieter airfields... on air-show day...
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Post by OziRiS on Aug 30, 2016 10:47:33 GMT
Speaking of ligthing, I saw the biggest bolt in my life the other night. This may not sound impressive to some of you, but until Saturday night I'd never seen a lightning bolt so long that it took up my entire field of vision and then some. I have now, and the thunder clap that followed it was so loud that the ground literally shook beneath my feet. Completely friggin' awesome! You all must be have some serious weather over there in Europe. Saw this story about 300+ reindeer getting fried on a hill in Norway the other day. Lightning Strike Kills More Than 300 Reindeer in NorwayI've always liked to watch lightning. As a kid I would sit at the window during a storm and watch the steeple of the church across the street waiting for a strike. I loved when the thunderclap came at the same time as the lightning. Norway, Sweden and other places in Europe are very different from Denmark in terms of weather. The main reason is that we don't have any mountains. Everything is flat, so there's nothing to create turbulence. We usually just get whatever comes in from the North Sea and since the wind from that direction hasn't encountered land since it left the UK, it's pretty calm. The winds can be strong, but there isn't much turbulence, which means cloud layers are pretty much only affected by temperature differences. They don't rise and fall and mix and collide like they do in mountainous terrain. We basically have two kinds of weather in Denmark: Warm and humid or cold and wet. The major variation is how windy it is. It's not that we never see thunder storms. It's just rare to see one as violent as the one we had on Saturday. The size of the lightning bolts in that one was something I've only ever seen in pictures and videos from other places in the world. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 30, 2016 16:06:36 GMT
It's not that we never see thunder storms. It's just rare to see one as violent as the one we had on Saturday. The size of the lightning bolts in that one was something I've only ever seen in pictures and videos from other places in the world. Sounds like what you were seeing were positive lightning strikes. Positive lightning only accounts for about 5% of all lightning but is about 10 times more powerful than normal negative lightning. Positive lightning strikes are almost always ground strikes and occur more often in severe thunderstorms. www.weatherimagery.com/blog/positive-negative-lightning/ |
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Post by OziRiS on Aug 31, 2016 1:38:23 GMT
It's not that we never see thunder storms. It's just rare to see one as violent as the one we had on Saturday. The size of the lightning bolts in that one was something I've only ever seen in pictures and videos from other places in the world. Sounds like what you were seeing were positive lightning strikes. Positive lightning only accounts for about 5% of all lightning but is about 10 times more powerful than normal negative lightning. Positive lightning strikes are almost always ground strikes and occur more often in severe thunderstorms. www.weatherimagery.com/blog/positive-negative-lightning/Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware there was anything called positive lightning, so I just learned something new there However, after reading that, I'm fairly certain that's not what it was. The huge bolt I saw moved across the bottom of the clouds and didn't appear to strike the ground at all. Of course, seeing as it was so long that both ends of it were outside my field of vision, I suppose it could've struck the ground without me seeing it, but it certainly didn't come from the top of the clouds at the edge of the storm and go directly to the ground. It was in the middle of the storm and crept (at the speed of light  ) along the bottom of it. |
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Post by the light works on Aug 31, 2016 3:09:59 GMT
Sounds like what you were seeing were positive lightning strikes. Positive lightning only accounts for about 5% of all lightning but is about 10 times more powerful than normal negative lightning. Positive lightning strikes are almost always ground strikes and occur more often in severe thunderstorms. www.weatherimagery.com/blog/positive-negative-lightning/Thanks for the link. I wasn't aware there was anything called positive lightning, so I just learned something new there However, after reading that, I'm fairly certain that's not what it was. The huge bolt I saw moved across the bottom of the clouds and didn't appear to strike the ground at all. Of course, seeing as it was so long that both ends of it were outside my field of vision, I suppose it could've struck the ground without me seeing it, but it certainly didn't come from the top of the clouds at the edge of the storm and go directly to the ground. It was in the middle of the storm and crept (at the speed of light ) along the bottom of it. positive lightning is much more optimistic. |
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 31, 2016 5:29:26 GMT
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Post by silverdragon on Aug 31, 2016 7:28:00 GMT
So who can confirm it?.
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 31, 2016 13:35:53 GMT
Hopefully SETI. That's what they do. |
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Post by OziRiS on Aug 31, 2016 14:11:40 GMT
Hopefully SETI. That's what they do. That's not entirely accurate though, is it? It's what they attempt to do. They've never actually done it yet |
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Post by the light works on Aug 31, 2016 14:16:57 GMT
Hopefully SETI. That's what they do. That's not entirely accurate though, is it? It's what they attempt to do. They've never actually done it yet details... |
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 31, 2016 14:29:40 GMT
Hopefully SETI. That's what they do. That's not entirely accurate though, is it? It's what they attempt to do. They've never actually done it yet What they attempt to do is find signals from intelligent life outside our solar system. That, they have not been able to do. But as part of that process, and what they have successfully been able to do on many occasions, is rule out sources. And that's what they are trying to do here. |
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Post by OziRiS on Aug 31, 2016 14:37:02 GMT
That's not entirely accurate though, is it? It's what they attempt to do. They've never actually done it yet What they attempt to do is find signals from intelligent life outside our solar system. That, they have not been able to do. But as part of that process, and what they have successfully been able to do on many occasions, is rule out sources. And that's what they are trying to do here. But the question you were answering was "Who can confirm it?", not "Who can rule it out?", so I'm still right. I'm just pulling your leg. I know what you meant |
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Post by GTCGreg on Aug 31, 2016 15:30:48 GMT
What they attempt to do is find signals from intelligent life outside our solar system. That, they have not been able to do. But as part of that process, and what they have successfully been able to do on many occasions, is rule out sources. And that's what they are trying to do here. But the question you were answering was "Who can confirm it?", not "Who can rule it out?", so I'm still right. I'm just pulling your leg. I know what you meant Of course you are right. I would never dispute that. |
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Post by silverdragon on Sept 1, 2016 10:33:31 GMT
This is the problem, when looking for the signal, first find out, what signal you are looking for.
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Post by GTCGreg on Sept 3, 2016 2:09:22 GMT
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Post by WhutScreenName on Sept 3, 2016 11:35:27 GMT
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) along the bottom of it.
