Thunderstorm cloud
Last Monday a violent thunderstorm with hail passed in the late afternoon over northwest London. When it was nearly over, black clouds receding, I grabbed my digital camera to snap the white carpet of hail on the lawn outside the window. Just as I pressed the shutter, there was a flash of blinding light some 100 yards from the window – a lightining struck something right in front of me. Only when I looked at the photo on the computer, I saw two distinct balls of light emerging from the burst of that lightning hit. I am not sure whether those weird lights could have had any effect on me, but that night I couldn’t go to sleep for some hours. It felt as if my energy levels were too high. Maybe I should have grounded myself somehow, but that didn’t occur to me in the night. What those balls of light were, I have no idea. The fainter ones are easily explained by the lightning flash reflections on particles of water etc. But those two big ones look to me like something else. The lower one seems about to fall apart before it hits the ground. I wonder what my readers think about all that? Comments would be appreciated.
Lighting balls enhanced
