One stormy night in the desert...

[jonesy]

Well we've just recently had some great electrical storms over here, and apart from the usual professionally captured pics I've never seen one taken like this before. A guy at work has an app on his iPhone that he had fixed to the cab of the dumptruck that enabled him to capture a lightning strike. My office is about 1km away from that. So yeah, it was pretty close!



PS, for the interested out there (even though they arent planes but pretty cool technology anyway) the dozer is a Cat D10, the dump truck is a Cat 785, and the digger is a Liebherr R9400.

[TS]

So to get into the cab of one of those things you need to wear oxygen

They look friggen Huuuuge.....

[Dave Homewood]

Wow, great photo Nelson

[haughtney1]

What a great Pic, out of interest was it a dry storm? A bit like we get here in Dubai (sometimes it's rain as well)

[phil82]

I loved the tropical thunder storms in Singapore, which occurred about 15:00 every day in the wet season. You could actually smell the air after forked lightning, that lovely singed air smell. Then there were the Mossie drains which caused you to wonder when they were empty as to why they built them so wide and deep, then during the wet why they hadn't built them deeper!

[jonesy]

Sometimes with rain, often not. I'm no weather guy, but I've heard its something to do with the huge amount of iron ore in the ground around us that makes it more common out here. We did get hit once when on approach to Perth one night. Hell of a bang, followed by absolute silence inside the cabin...nobody said a word, but I'm pretty sure we were all wondering the same thing....