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ball lightning

Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:20 pm
by wx1028
wondering if anyone had any ball lightning pics[/b]

lightning!!

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:17 pm
by GrimReaper
wx1028......I can tell you a story about ball lightning!! Right before Frances hit the St. Augustine area the weather was very hot with the winds picking up to about 55+, and strangely enough it didn't feel humid, but dry. It was night time, and we had already lost power at different intervals, and it was dark at this point. I looked across the street to my neighbors, and saw what I perceived to be someone taking flashbulb pictures... but the flashes lasted a tad longer than I thought flash photography should, and the flashes we a little bigger..... and about 20 feet in the air. Someone told me that was ball lightning. It only lasted for a few minutes, and when the humidity started kicking along with the even higher winds.... it stopped. So weather freaks.... did I see ball lightning??

Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:44 pm
by wx1028
that sounds pretty cool. i always wanted to see it myself. but i understand its pretty rare event