Nearly symmetric, fan-shaped eruptions of anvil crawlers like this are not too common in my decades of experience shooting lightning. Yet mere minutes after one fan crawler blasted across the sky, came this one! Of course, it wasn’t a duplicate (no two lightning discharges ever are precisely alike), but a curiously similar mimic. We stood with awe and gratitude at the remarkable encore, before lightning ebbed and the responsible storm got absorbed deeper into a larger area of convection.
2 ESE Red Springs TX (4 May 22) Looking ESE
33.6084, -99.3835