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These don't happen often enough where I live so thought I'd share it here. Anyone else seeing lightning right now?

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[โ€“] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

How did you get the timing right for the lightning?! I'm always too early or too late...

[โ€“] gardengnome@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used my Spidey senses to time it to perfection.

Jk, I actually just took a slow motion video of the lightning and then exported this frame :)

Here's another:

[โ€“] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Ah that's clever cheers :)

[โ€“] lunarshot@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this is very cool, thank you for sharing! ๐ŸŒฉ๏ธ

[โ€“] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How often do they happen? I mean, they don't happen here quite often. Curious if they are just more rare there than usual.

[โ€“] gardengnome@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Here's the image with the key for anyone interested :)

[โ€“] gardengnome@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Seems like we're getting less and less thunder days every year here in the UK. See here.

In Scotland they're less common than in the south. Probably less than 10 thunderstorms a year. (This explains it well)

The graphic below from the website shows the number of thunder days across the UK.

I don't know about you but I'd say less than 10 thunder days a year is quite rare.

The good news is that there are some more forecast for tomorrow :D

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