Glad you like it. These are fun ti take- a bit of an adrenalin rush.... There's concern about rain but I imagine I'll figure some way of creating a makeshift shelter to keep the camera dry in case of a downpour but in this case it was just sprinkling lightly.
Why thank you! It was fun to take! Even when I go out and don't get the shot I'm after it's an adrenalin rush.
Thank you It is amazing to me when I watch lightning. I had intended to set up earlier near a body of water hoping the storminess would gather as it looked like it may but I wound up hitting the road when the weather was clearly not cooperating with my plan (the nerve!) but a bit before sunset I was observing the sky and looking at a high puffy cloud I could see through a sizable clear patch when I saw a lightning streak dart across the top of it. THAT was cool!
I have noted that in the stronger storms that CTG (cloud to ground) lightning most frequently strikes down along the edge of the heavy rain/hail curtain.. which is visible if you're watching a storm in the distance as an "curtain" area below the storm cloud where you cannot see past. That could well be a clue as to how lightning is generated. I'm reasonably certain that without hail formation in the top of the cloud there is no lightning-- often the hail hits the ground in the form of huge cold rain drops and not as frozen pellets. Things that make ya go "hmmm...."
Thanks... I see you're in Rhode Island... I imagine you've seen a couple storms lately yourself. The one pictured was part of a line that ran just on the connecticut side of the border... I was on its western edge.
