We have a theme developing!
A somewhat unusual line of thunderstorms moved through my region yesterday -I'm in metropolitan Vancouver USA across the Columbia River from Portland Oregon- and I was trying all day to get some lightning shots. Alas, my immediate location was on the fringe which is prolly better for my garden though, as some areas suffered considerable damage, but I saw no lightning.
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Anyway, I check Spaceweather daily and they again have an unusual lightning photo and circumstance. A lightning strike between an eruption cloud from a volcano and a thunderstorm cloud.
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroids
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Originally Posted by Spaceweather.com: June 5,2009
VOLCANIC LIGHTNING: On May 19th, adventure photographer Stephen O'Meara was monitoring an eruption of the Rabaul volcano in Papua, New Guinea, when something happened that, he says, "I'll remember for a very long time. A storm cloud approached the volcano's 2 km plume, and lightning began to arc between the two." He set up his camera in a secure location and recorded the "awesome and blinding" spectacle: ...
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