Spring 2015 thread (Northern Hemisphere) (climate, hottest, warmest, record)
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Have you ever experienced one personally? I have, a number of years back.
I have. Pretty intense stuff. I was in Stamford right near the water. August 12, 2005. Lightning was the most incredible thing I witnessed from 40 miles away.. I was heading to the stores...I literally turned around because I didn't like the looks of the constant lightning and thunder and radar!. Glad I did!!
Got home, grabbed the camera and started videoing. I call it "The Storm". I made a Pretty touching video for myself. At one point I said "Holy ****, what the hell is coming?" lol.
VIVID lightning and constant, I mean you couldn't count to 3 without seeing a flash..,absolutely insane constant with thunder, wind speeds (which changed directions at one point) was insane. It snapped trees down everywhere. Lightning/Thunder lasted a good 45 minutes. To this day it stands as the worst storm I witnessed.
It was the most damage the area had gotten since the Ice Storm of 1973. 3 Homes hit by lightning. Tornado on Long Island they called it Microburst over me.
Damage problems out numbered the firefighter and police force. Temp dropped from 90°F to 73°F.
10,000 homes were without power the next day and it was HOT. I suffered without A/C.
Have you ever experienced one personally? I have, a number of years back.
I was watching what I thought was a run-of-the-mill t-storm, and then all hell broke loose for about 30 seconds. The wind screamed at what must have been at least 90 mph, and everything misted white - like you'd see in a blizzard. Part of the monster poplar tree in the back snapped off and took out a chunk of a smaller tree and totally obliterated the fence back there...lol.
Cambium, what you described is actually a derecho. These are very intense, often long-lived thunderstorms capable of wrecking havoc over long distances. Incredibly frequent lightning is characteristic with these storms, as well as straight-line winds of up to 120 mph. I got to experience a big one in my hometown of Winston-Salem in May of '89 - you should have seen the damage that storm inflicted upon our fair city. My grandparents, living just 3 miles away, didn't have power back for three weeks. Being on the very edge of the damage path, my parent's house only lost power for about 24 hours. The house next door got clobbered by a big oak, but we got lucky with zero damage.
I imagine you're familiar with the Labor Day storm in upstate New York of 1998? The lightning was so vivid from that storm as it roared down the Mohawk Valley that truckers reported full daylight conditions from continuous lighting strikes (like 10-20 times a second) just before their rigs were blown off the road when they drove into the wall of 120-mph winds.
I've experienced a lightning strike at that distance while being stopped on the interstate in a storm - I could feel the compression in my chest...lol. It was neat to see the shower of sparks at the actual point of impact, which was in a dirt field. Sure was bright, too...
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