Electrical Storm......

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Around here in the Highveld,if you are out there hunting and a big storm comes up, it can very quickly became a survival situation!
November Pretoria electrical thunderstorm!
Be careful .......

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Wow!
 
Holy moly. No metal poles on the tents over there!
 
Very cool picture. Wouldn't want to be standing around with a rifle when that storm passed over.
 
Those systems are impressive and more than a little scary! Been in a few of them and coincidentally one was in Johannesburg about six or seven years ago. I wouldn't doubt the one pictured at Pretoria was forming sprites above it. I think there has been sprite studies from the ISS because they can monitor what is going on top those systems- including sprite formation. I watched a documentary not long ago about those massive electrical storms and that area of South Africa was one of the hotspots for them known around the planet.
 
Golf anyone?
 
Was playing a round of golf at Kabwe course in 1994 and one of those brewed up. I was standing under a huge tree for shelter when I remembered it was probably not the place to stand. Walked back to the clubhouse in the rain. Naturally it was the day I forgot my golf umbrella! Caddie was NOT chuffed at all!! He got a bigger tip that day...
 
Was playing a round of golf at Kabwe course in 1994 and one of those brewed up. I was standing under a huge tree for shelter when I remembered it was probably not the place to stand. Walked back to the clubhouse in the rain. Naturally it was the day I forgot my golf umbrella! Caddie was NOT chuffed at all!! He got a bigger tip that day...
And to think that as kids we used to sit on the front porch--in a metal lawn chair--and watch the lightning.
 
And to think that as kids we used to sit on the front porch--in a metal lawn chair--and watch the lightning.
Yep did that too. Last time was 2006 when I return to SA from living in the UK. Visiting the Thanbazimbi / Northam area where there is plenty iron ore mining so lightening loves the place. Also decided to move inside when the strikes were getting out of hand....
 
I read somewhere, many years ago, that the highest strikes per kilometer was somewhere in south of France with Matabeleland second with all those granite kopjies.
 

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