7 Amazing Lightning Pictures
Not everyone can hang out in a storm and take lightning pictures. If you have ever been inside a thunderstorm, you will know. You need to have the heart for it. (You also need one of those quite expensive cameras). Here are some lightning photographs taken by amateurs and professionals from four corners of the planet. Most are from the capital of lightning (Florida) but not all.
Lightning is caused by positive and negative charge differences in a cloud. When this so-called “charge-difference” try to correct itself to become neutral again, a stunning show of light and electricity is displayed in the form of lightning and thunder. The sooner you hear a thunder roar after a flash, the closer the lightning-storm is. If you hear it in less than 5 seconds, you are in serious danger and need to find shelter immediately. Very little is know about lightning actually even if it hits the earth more than a billion times a year. We can only avoid it for our own safety.
The National Weather Service (NWS) releases safety measures and best practices during every peak season, normally during the summer season. You might want to check it out!
The blue clouds and the desert makes this one priceless. This would look awesome as a framed picture, in your bedroom or living room, don’t you agree?
A powerful bolt strikes the ground in some faraway mountain.
Looks like a thunderstorm is brewing over the city. The city lights give the lower atmosphere a reddish hue.
3 strikes at the same time. Who said lightning never falls at the same place twice, or in this case – thrice?
A thick vein of lightning falls into the sea.
Known as “crawler lightning”, they move horizontally for miles in the sky.
This photograph is so good it looks almost photoshoped but it is not. Multiples strikes at almost the same time.
The photos in this post are courtesy of LightningPictures.net Gallery and Flickr.com
