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Well, we got a thunderstorm through Tauranga at about 4.30pm this afternoon.
I think I actually managed to get a little lightning on digital video too! I'll have to find the time to pull it off and hopefully will post it at a later date (There would have been more if I'd had my tripod, and I'd been pointing the right direction).
Reports South of Tauranga of good sized hail and Ahem.. "Minature Tornado's"!
It certainly was quite an active storm, very warm prior and very heavy cold rain and a good temperature drop.
Whose turn is it tommorrow?
I think I actually managed to get a little lightning on digital video too! I'll have to find the time to pull it off and hopefully will post it at a later date (There would have been more if I'd had my tripod, and I'd been pointing the right direction).
Reports South of Tauranga of good sized hail and Ahem.. "Minature Tornado's"!
It certainly was quite an active storm, very warm prior and very heavy cold rain and a good temperature drop.
Whose turn is it tommorrow?
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If you want to see a good lightnig photo check this out:
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2005/1 ... young1.jpg
"Every 10 milliseconds somewhere on our planet a bolt of lightning plunges down from the clouds and strikes Earth. A few nights ago in the Mojave Desert, JPL astronomer James W. Young photographed a magnificent strike:
If this lightning bolt was like most, it heated the air around it to ~20,000o C or three times hotter than the surface of the sun. (No wonder lightning starts so many wildfires.) The bolt itself was lit by a thousand billion (1012) watts of electrical power. If you see such a display, take the picture, then take cover!"
http://www.spaceweather.com/swpod2005/1 ... young1.jpg
"Every 10 milliseconds somewhere on our planet a bolt of lightning plunges down from the clouds and strikes Earth. A few nights ago in the Mojave Desert, JPL astronomer James W. Young photographed a magnificent strike:
If this lightning bolt was like most, it heated the air around it to ~20,000o C or three times hotter than the surface of the sun. (No wonder lightning starts so many wildfires.) The bolt itself was lit by a thousand billion (1012) watts of electrical power. If you see such a display, take the picture, then take cover!"
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I finally got around to looking at that video tape and grabbed a couple of events off it. Only one of them was any good and unfortunately I only got a small portion of it. Why does it always strike in the direction you aren't filming. Murphy also got me by having the worst of it go overhead whilst I was stuck on the phone.
The real player version is just under 1.5 Meg, the Windows Media Viewer version is about 4.2 Megs and the DVD quality MPEG2 is just under 60 Meg!
Unfortunately I don't have anywhere I can upload them to. If anyone is interested in seeing either of the two smaller versions I'd be happy to e-mail them. Send a message to "My Username Here" at Xtra dot co dot nz.
The real player version is just under 1.5 Meg, the Windows Media Viewer version is about 4.2 Megs and the DVD quality MPEG2 is just under 60 Meg!
Unfortunately I don't have anywhere I can upload them to. If anyone is interested in seeing either of the two smaller versions I'd be happy to e-mail them. Send a message to "My Username Here" at Xtra dot co dot nz.