Electric Sky
Best night of the year! The final minutes of July brought the perfect storm in the lightning photography capital of the world. This is a look over Tucson, Arizona, around 10:45pm on July 31st. The rain appears as hazy streaks in the middle of the photograph. The lightning was striking mostly in the dry air on the sides of the storm. As a result, you could see every fine detail of the branches. All of the lightning on the right occurred in just 92 seconds! The lightning strike on the left occurred 3 minutes later. Each lightning flash had one ground contact point, except for one. That lightning flash had an incredible 4 points where it hit the ground, and that is relatively rare. So in this photograph, you can see 5 lightning flashes with a total of 8 points where the electricity struck the ground. Do you see all of the ground contact points?
(Explore # 74)
Electric Sky
Best night of the year! The final minutes of July brought the perfect storm in the lightning photography capital of the world. This is a look over Tucson, Arizona, around 10:45pm on July 31st. The rain appears as hazy streaks in the middle of the photograph. The lightning was striking mostly in the dry air on the sides of the storm. As a result, you could see every fine detail of the branches. All of the lightning on the right occurred in just 92 seconds! The lightning strike on the left occurred 3 minutes later. Each lightning flash had one ground contact point, except for one. That lightning flash had an incredible 4 points where it hit the ground, and that is relatively rare. So in this photograph, you can see 5 lightning flashes with a total of 8 points where the electricity struck the ground. Do you see all of the ground contact points?
(Explore # 74)