December 8, 2016
Last night we had the most intense lightning storm we’ve ever seen.
No, this isn’t time-lapse video. At times, there were many flashes per second and the lightning was almost constant. It stretched over about 120 degrees of our horizon. The lighting lasted a long time – longer than our attention span – we finally gave up and went to bed.
The sound you hear in the video is wind. We never heard thunder, I guess because the storm was too far away – about 30 miles from us when this video was taken. Below is what the storm looked like on BOM’s weather radar. We were near the Point Perpendicular label on the map.
I’m glad it was as far away as it was. I can’t imagine a boat surviving long under this storm. Before the lightning, we spent much of the day sitting on a mooring in Jervis Bay with the wind gusting to about 40 knots. Australia has some wild weather! -Rich
