Re:It's been a pretty insane 12 hours across the Bay Area
by LargoLasskhyfv on Monday August 17, 2020 @12:40AM
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Meh. You have seen nothing! Imagine walking home at night, along a park which gives unusually wide views of some parts the horizon.
Weather feels OK, partially cloudy. Nonetheless something is OFF.
What is "off"? Startled you see glowing and flashing clouds, but it is so far away, you can't exactly tell. Also dark. And no sound of thunder at all? Then you see tiny bright threads arcing between mountains of towering dark clouds, maybe 30 to 45° upwards from the horizon. The dark clouds begin to glow stroboscopically. Still no sound at all. It shines pink, violet, electric whiteblue, orange, yellow, sometimes, especially in the upper regions even greenish. You stand there, awestruck, and still don't know what it is. Cars on the street stop, drivers getting out, asking you what that is, because they've seen it since maybe 10 minutes, and didn't know what it was either.
You tell them you have no clue, never seen something like this before, but it's probably just a large thunderstorm, far away and high up in the sky, maybe 50 to 60km away.
About 10 minutes later, back home, you open https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en and see an inferno unfolding. It dawns on you that the "tiny threads" which flickered horizontally between the glowing clouds for up to 1.5 seconds must have been dozens of kilometers long.
For some strange reason I had clear line of sight in form of a cone into that front, maybe 60 to 80° wide. Very unusual.
Next day the media is full of it. Also some very impressive videos of it in the net.
Anyways, I'd have expected that one can see this far from some mountaintop, or tower, or a plane, but not from the ground.
TBH my first thought was: Is this how it(WWIII) begins?
What is "off"? Startled you see glowing and flashing clouds, but it is so far away, you can't exactly tell. Also dark. And no sound of thunder at all? Then you see tiny bright threads arcing between mountains of towering dark clouds, maybe 30 to 45° upwards from the horizon. The dark clouds begin to glow stroboscopically. Still no sound at all. It shines pink, violet, electric whiteblue, orange, yellow, sometimes, especially in the upper regions even greenish. You stand there, awestruck, and still don't know what it is. Cars on the street stop, drivers getting out, asking you what that is, because they've seen it since maybe 10 minutes, and didn't know what it was either.
You tell them you have no clue, never seen something like this before, but it's probably just a large thunderstorm, far away and high up in the sky, maybe 50 to 60km away.
About 10 minutes later, back home, you open https://www.lightningmaps.org/?lang=en and see an inferno unfolding. It dawns on you that the "tiny threads" which flickered horizontally between the glowing clouds for up to 1.5 seconds must have been dozens of kilometers long.
For some strange reason I had clear line of sight in form of a cone into that front, maybe 60 to 80° wide. Very unusual.
Next day the media is full of it. Also some very impressive videos of it in the net.
Anyways, I'd have expected that one can see this far from some mountaintop, or tower, or a plane, but not from the ground.
TBH my first thought was: Is this how it(WWIII) begins?