Cybermonkey
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Had about 3 inches of hail on the ground within 10 minutes, followed by this.
Skyline is Sydney CBD, overlooking the harbour.
Dave
[Edited on 08-09-2004 by Cybermonkey24]
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Ditch
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Did you take those pics Mr Monkey?
Fcukin dramatic or what 
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sassyminx
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bloody hell them pics are awesome 
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Cybermonkey
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quote:
Originally posted by Ditch
Did you take those pics Mr Monkey?
Fcukin dramatic or what
Yes i did....
NOT! 
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sassyminx
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big eck
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That bottom pic looks fukin scary
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Cybermonkey
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i was shatting myself that night. never seen anything like it. Shure do get some crazy ass weather here. Apparently, this is the start of El Nino.
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Robbo
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Well fookin scary 
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Cybermonkey
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you can see the AMP Tower on the very right of pics 1 and 3, and in the middle on 2, it got struck around 20 times that night because its the tallest structure in sydney.
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Ditch
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WTF is El Nemo?
And I gotta say, if that lightning was that close to me I too would be shatting myself!
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Cybermonkey
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El Nino is what happens in the Pacific ocean when certain events happen. El Nino is responsible for weather all around the globe, especially those countries closest to the Pacific ocean. Even the UK feels the effects of El Nino from time to time. What happens is that the Pacific ocean is so damn big, if the southern trade winds slow down, So much energy is created in the pacific, that very bad weather occurs, be it drought or severe thunderstorms, depending on where you live. During a hot period, the pacific ocean is generally 1 metre higher due to the water temperature, and this gives off massive convection, which dictates weather around the whole world. Its some big shit!!
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Robbo
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El Nino was also a great dance song in the late 90's by Agnelli & Nelson 
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Cybermonkey
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for example, the most recent bad episode of El Nino was 1982-83 and caused an estimated $13bn damage, and killed around 2100 people, just from the effects of sever drought in Australia, and the South African states, and In parts of southern Ecuador and northern Peru, up to 100 inches of rain fell during a six-month period. Swollen rivers carried a thousand times their normal flow.
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Cybermonkey
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the storms of '87 in the UK are thought to be mostly derived from El Nino effects elsewhere in the world.
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Adam-D
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there well good
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Ditch
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all bow to the power of El Nemo
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Wrighty
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pics are amazin
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corb
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That looks mad, wicked pics tho. I enjoy a good electrical storm, but the looks insane!!!
That hurricane was on my sisters birthday, we HAD a huuuge markee(sp) in the garden. next day, dozens of people had markee(sp) in their gardens
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Cybermonkey
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what hurricane?
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Wolfy
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jesus look at the spike (green lighting on the last pic coming from the ground)
id hate to be passing near that, if a bolt connected that would have been leathfuly bad....
some cool pics though.
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Ditch
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quote:
Originally posted by Calibra2zero
that would have been leathfuly bad....
No its your spelling which is bad...
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Wrighty
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why whats green lightening mean?
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Wolfy
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quote:
Originally posted by yzjon
why whats green lightening mean?
2 answers taken from a site cause i dont know how its caused.
Upward streamers:
Lightning starts in a cloud when there is an updraft reaching subfreezing temperatures. A cloud-to-ground flash starts at around 15,000 feet during summer in the US. It travels toward the ground in 50-yard steps - this is the downward "leader". At the ground, there are small, upward "streamers" reaching upwards toward the electrified cloud. When the downward leader connects with the upward streamer, the bright light that we call lightning is visible, and moves upward. The way to think of it is that charge is lowered but current flows upward. This happens in a split second, so it's difficult to see.
True ground-to-cloud lightning:
In some cases, the cloud area where lightning usually originates (15,000+ feet high) can be so low, like in a winter storm, that very tall natural (mountains) or man-made objects (towers or skyscrapers) sort of interfere with the initial charge moving downward toward the ground. Instead, the very tall object actually triggers the lightning, and the strike with its steps, forks, and branches truly appears to go upward. This is an unusual lightning event that we don't see every day, but there are photos that document it.
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goldfish
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whats an elcetrical storm 
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Wolfy
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quote:
Originally posted by goldfish
whats an elcetrical storm
a storm were the is mass amounts of lighting and more then average ground strikes.
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