Swedish woman hit by lightening while filming storm

Tabnabs

Kind of odd as she was inside the awning beside a caravan.

http://www.yr.no/nyheter/1.7235841

One minute into video.

(she was grand in the end & <insert pun here>)

maquiladora

Thats shockin...

WolfeIRE

This was also in sweden in past 24 hrs. what an incredible thud from the thunder.

wobbles-grogan

WolfeIRE wrote: »

This was also in sweden in past 24 hrs. what an incredible thud from the thunder.

I gotta say, that looked terribly fake....

WolfeIRE

wobbles-grogan wrote: »

I gotta say, that looked terribly fake....

the lightening looks fake but i was wondering if the double glazed window had the effect of mirroring it at bottom.

the clap of thunder sounds real for sure.

up for anything

You can see the lightening block out this side of the balcony railing. Definitely that was faked.

Not

WolfeIRE wrote: »

This was also in sweden in past 24 hrs. what an incredible thud from the thunder.

Definitely fake. I've been very close to lightening and its nothing like that at all. It's a very sharp deafening crack at the same time as a bright blue blinding flash. Actually seemed like the crack was before the flash - but that obviously couldn't have been.

Mr Benevolent

That's not fake. Cameras often react oddly to lightning, and the small bolt wasn't the full strike, it was a tracer bolt. Also, close up lightning sounds exactly like that - I've been within 50 metres of strikes plenty of times.

djhaxman

This doesn't look or sound too fake to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lO4fSuzE-I

Nozebleed

she picks the camera up again. good idea.

lord lucan

djhaxman wrote: »

This doesn't look or sound too fake to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lO4fSuzE-I

I dream of being in a situation like that!:D

Supercell

djhaxman wrote: »

This doesn't look or sound too fake to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lO4fSuzE-I

WOW!! that was awesome :eek:, I love the guys comments afterwards, he should listen to his own advice LMAO!

WolfeIRE

the sound of the lightening strike alone is frightening

Tordelback

Lightening is that stuff Michael Jackson used. It's lightning, people of the Science:Weather forum!

WolfeIRE

Tordelback wrote: »

Lightening is that stuff Michael Jackson used. It's lightning, people of the Science:Weather forum!

tordel-back to the ass and donkey forum please

lord lucan

141_Oscar_Mike wrote: »

I was;)

Completely exposed on a beach in a supercell. Nothing enjoyable about it trust me.

Ok then,i could be in a little rubber hut on the beach in the middle of the storm!:D

Deep Easterly

:eek::eek::eek:

Not

Confab wrote: »

That's not fake. Cameras often react oddly to lightning, and the small bolt wasn't the full strike, it was a tracer bolt. Also, close up lightning sounds exactly like that - I've been within 50 metres of strikes plenty of times.

50 metres it sounds like that alright (having worked beside a mast that used to take strikes), but closer as depicted in that video its a sharp crack instantaneous with the flash, not a loud explosive boom after a noticeable pause. I suppose it could have been a tracer, with the main strike 50m distant, but unless the tracer happened significantly before the main strike, the pause still has me skeptical.

WolfeIRE

Deep Easterly wrote: »

truly shocking Deep. Lucky he wasn't killed. His plastic spectacles must have saved him

Not

djhaxman wrote: »

This doesn't look or sound too fake to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

That is starting to make me realise just how close the bolt I speak of must have been to me. maybe 5 feet ?? :eek:

Storm 10

What about this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu2o00X2ZA0

Or this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLJ6oqToKrc&feature=related

This is a cool one from Toronto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCm2UCj6eDU&feature=related

Chicago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJGE51oBAms&feature=related

djhaxman

All good vids.

Damn this country and it's boring weather anyway :mad:

Maybe I'll bring forward my retirement to Florida by a few years.

Deep Easterly

djhaxman wrote: »

Damn this country and it's boring weather anyway :mad:

+1

Like the gunshot type thunder in this clip. Pity it is cut off just when it is at it's peak :mad::

I have heard thunder like that here in Ireland too, seems to more common in wintertime.