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An evening pause: In celebration of the first monsoon rain this past Saturday here in Tucson.
Hat tip Willi Kusche.
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Occasionally get extremely well defined lightning storms coming in off Lake Michigan, but have not seen one like the video, in quite a while.
Lots-o-rain, thunder, and lightning, the past 10 days in Michigan. Had a very late Spring, then it went straight to the 90’s. We are in peak Tornado Season, colliding Low & High pressure zones, tend to concern us. (On the upside, the Tornado count this season is only 50% of the historic average.)
>Northern Wisconsin & the Upper Peninsula were hammered over the weekend. Michigan Tech (in Houghton, Michigan,) is temporarily closed.
“Flash Flooding, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula”
June 17th, 2018
https://youtu.be/zqsbwoD0izU
0:45
pivoting…
Had an F-5 tornado wipe out a few towns 62 years ago-
The West Michigan Tornadoes of April 3, 1956
https://youtu.be/saUr-j93RKQ
21:25
As a meteorologist, this is a true delight!
Visually excellent, but the stupid sound effects could have been left out. Seeing lightning miles away and hearing a crack at the same time?
It reminds me of combat footage where a bomb explodes in the distance and somebody has added an explosion sound so they occur simultaneously.
It cheapens the show.
ted-
completely agree on fake sound fx’s. (especially with historical films)
For this one, it’s more “art” than a documentary (as it were), but agree the delay is an integral part of the experience, it’s a feature of reality, not a bug.
Enjoy watching thunderstorms from a safe distance (miles), but after twenty years in the South and some way-too-close-for-comfort-strikes, just as happy to live in place where lightning storms are uncommon.