On a night when occasional blasts of lightning lit deep convective clouds in every other direction, north was not to be left out. Although the bottom part of the main discharge couldn’t be seen beyond the near edge of a long mesa, the “eyeball test” suggested what lightning-detection data soon confirmed: this was a cloud-to-ground stroke. Numerous other filaments danced in assorted directions and unique patterns from the same general area of cloud-charge discharge. This probably was the most electrically active cell of the several that floated westward past my north and south sides, but most of its other flashes were buried deep inside the rain core.
Mesquite NV (3 Aug 17) Looking N
36.8037, -114.1399
Bright Bolt and Filaments beyond Mesa
On a night when occasional blasts of lightning lit deep convective clouds in every other direction, north was not to be left out. Although the bottom part of the main discharge couldn’t be seen beyond the near edge of a long mesa, the “eyeball test” suggested what lightning-detection data soon confirmed: this was a cloud-to-ground stroke. Numerous other filaments danced in assorted directions and unique patterns from the same general area of cloud-charge discharge. This probably was the most electrically active cell of the several that floated westward past my north and south sides, but most of its other flashes were buried deep inside the rain core.
Mesquite NV (3 Aug 17) Looking N
36.8037, -114.1399