There is a line of severe weather that extends across 3 states. 50,000 lightning strikes in the past 24 hrs (As of Tue May 21, 2019, 12:17 am)
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There is a line of severe weather that extends across 3 states. 50,000 lightning strikes in the past 24 hrs (As of Tue May 21, 2019, 12:17 am)
On a sunny day (Tue, 21 May 2019 05:15:45 -0000 (UTC)) it happened John Doe wrote in :
I find the expanding circles annoying. For Europe I use this:
That's cool.
This could affect some peoples' plans too, especially golfers.
It's 34.5 F at the cabin this instant, according to the RTD outside.
A few years ago, we had an outright blizzard in Truckee on Memorial Day.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc lunatic fringe electronics
Thanks. With a storm this severe, I would expect the cloud tops to be above
60,000 feet, which is higher that airplanes can fly. If you look at flightradar24, you can sometimes see areas where no planes are flying. But in this case, I don't know enough about US geography to tell. You can check atFlightradar24 uses ADSB receivers to locate the planes.
On that site I saw one lightning strike in northern California. We very rarely get lightning here near the coast; we go years without seeing or hearing any. The power poles here do not have a high ground wire to take the strikes, like in most places.
I miss lightning. In New Orleans we got great thunderstorms.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc picosecond timing precision measurement jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com http://www.highlandtechnology.com
I'm not sure I hope you get your wish. That might mean severe weather that could do a lot of damage.
Singapore has some amazing lightning shows! Pretty cool from 20th floor of a hotel, feels like it's all around you. Maybe it is!
Airplanes can fly higher than 60,000 feet , but not your commercial airplanes.
I did a quick check on line expecting to find the SR-71 or a F 104 holding the record. But found a NASA electric plane that flew over 96,000 feet in horizontal flight.
Dan
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