Four strikes aren’t allowed in baseball, but they most certainly are from any spectacular thunderstorm I’m photographing! Actually, this was just the fourth decent discharge I caught. This storm was flinging ’em fast and hot—including several I was unable to catch with an open shutter. In this brief respite from its profuse production of miles-long lateral discharges from high aloft, the multicell uncorked a short visible CG that extended deep into the storm, wonderfully illuminating its intricate convective structures from within. Then the side-discharge barrage resumed with vengeance!
Norman, OK (11 Jul 13) Looking SSW
35.2037, -97.38357-11 Lightning: Strike Four
Four strikes aren’t allowed in baseball, but they most certainly are from any spectacular thunderstorm I’m photographing! Actually, this was just the fourth decent discharge I caught. This storm was flinging ’em fast and hot—including several I was unable to catch with an open shutter. In this brief respite from its profuse production of miles-long lateral discharges from high aloft, the multicell uncorked a short visible CG that extended deep into the storm, wonderfully illuminating its intricate convective structures from within. Then the side-discharge barrage resumed with vengeance!
Norman, OK (11 Jul 13) Looking SSW
35.2037, -97.3835