Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Lightning and Mammatus

Recent NYC weather has us approaching records rainfall, which I enjoy.

Plus it gave me a chance to take video of lightning and other weather phenomena.

A great series of a lighting strike. Series goes from cloud lightning forming with a leader and secondary higher path, the initial strike, the height of brilliance.


After the strike in less then a second my camera turned purple. I assume this was from the electrical discharge.

Then after the mini-storm a small group of mammatus clouds appeared at sunset.

They looked otherworldly.

Mammatus clouds are cumulus clouds characterized by the pouch-shaped formations hanging underneath. These clouds are associated with strong storms and can only exist when cumulonimbus clouds are also around.

1 comment:

Gurl said...

Love the Mammatus clouds. Look so unreal.
Scary though.