Lightning Pictures - Fork and Bolt Lightning

Will and Guy's Favourite Lightning Pictures

A lightning flash lasts only about 200 milliseconds and consists of 4 or 5 individual bolts.  The flicker you see in lightning is due to the individual bolts, which combine to make up the flash.

Lightning Pictures

1. Lightning Picture - Storm Strikes Yacht
2. Lightning in the Desert
3. Lightning Storm in Majorca
4. Lightning Strikes Down Chinese Debtor
5. Lightning Storm Strikes Lake
6. Lightning Strikes the The Capitol
7. Rare Picture of Lightning and Rainbow
8. Lightning Misses Tower
9. Lightning Bolt Hits Tree
10. Lightning Strike - Sparks Forest Fire
11. Weird Lightning Picture
12. Forked Lightning Pictures

1) Lightning Picture - Storm Strikes Yacht

Here are two follow-up pictures showing the damage to the mast caused by the lightning bolt.

2) Picture of Lightning in the Desert

What's special about the above lightning picture is the way that the longer you study the image, more and more cacti appear.  It seems a similar effect to the way that our eyes get accustomed to the dark.

3) Lightning Storm Strikes Lake - Two Main Bolts Plus Lots of Forks

Lightning is a gigantic electrical spark that results from billions of volts of static electricity.  Each lightning strike carries a current of 10,000 Amps at 100 million Volts.

4) Lightning Strikes Down Chinese Debtor

A Chinese man called Mr Xu, swore to God that he didn't owed about $100 to his neighbour Mr Huang.  In the time it has taken you to read this a lightning bolt struck down Mr Xu.  Mr Huang remembered the debt well, Xu borrowed the money for a friend's marriage gift.

In desperation Mr Huang said that if Xu dared to swear to god that he did not the money, then he would waive the dept.  Xu foolishly took up the challenge, and made the oath in front of a crowd of neighbours in Fuqing city, China.  Less than a minute after Xu made his oath, he was struck down by lightning.

Xu was quickly taken to hospital where doctors confirmed he had indeed been injured by lightning.  While he is expected to make a full recovery, it is hoped that Xu will settle his debt honourably.

5) Forked Lightning Pictures - Possibly a Lightning Storm in Canada

You must be a dedicated watcher to have the presence of mind to take a picture of lightning bolts, or forked lightning.

See our forked Lightning Video

6) Lightning Strikes the The Capitol Building in Washington

7) Rare Picture of Lightning and Rainbow

Lightning usually occurs during heavy storms while rainbows generally form after the rain has stopped, making an appearance of both simultaneously relatively rare. This clash of weather below, was seen above Fort Smith, in Arkansas, USA.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. Willie Tyler

8) Lightning Misses Tower

You can listen to thunder after lightning and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind. [spoken by a 6year old]

9) Lightning Hits Tree

Watching Lightning

Don't you just love the lightning.  I read recently that in England, the Southern counties have more lightning than the North, with Surrey being the epicentre.  Worldwide, there are about 3,000 lightning strikes per minute.

Lightning Bolt

Newspaper Headline from the Newport Argus

Man Struck By Lightning: Faces Battery Charge
[He probably IS the battery charge!]

10) Lightning Strike - Sparks Forest Fire

11) Weird Lightning Picture

12) Lightning Storm in Majorca.   Picture Captures the Lightning Forks.

Thunder invariably accompanies lightning, they say you can here the thunder for up to 12 miles.

Lightning Story - Out of the mouths of....

Louise was a little girl who walked daily to and from school. Though the weather one morning was unsettled and clouds were forming, she took her normal stroll to her primary school ½ a mile away.

As the day passed, the weather became more inclement, the wind whistled stronger and there was some loud thunder and fierce lightning. Louise's mother was concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school. She herself was afraid of an electrical storm and thought that it might harm her child. Following a massive clap of thunder, lightning rent the sky like a fireball from heaven.

Terrified, Louise's mother got into her car and drove along the route to her child's school. Soon she saw her daughter walking along, but at each flash of lightning, Louise would stop, look up and smile. One followed another, each with the little girl stopping, looking at the streak of light and smiling.

Finally, her mother called her over to the car and asked, 'Louise darling, what are you doing?'

Louise answered brightly, 'God keeps taking pictures of me!'

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