Glasgow lightning

[Vinegar Tom]

Great light-show this afternoon with a spectacular discharge of lightning over Glasgow.

I had a grand-stand view as the storm moved from East to West. The Gorbals took a hammering - we couldn't decide if it was House of Sher or one of the Stirlingfaulds that took a direct hit

I have never experienced a shorter time lapse between lightning and the crack of thunder , must have been close

Unfortunately no photographs , but if I had good ones I would be trying to sell them

[samscafeamericain]

Great light-show this afternoon with a spectacular discharge of lightning over Glasgow.

I had a grand-stand view as the storm moved from East to West. The Gorbals took a hammering - we couldn't decide if it was House of Sher or one of the Stirlingfaulds that took a direct hit

I have never experienced a shorter time lapse between lightning and the crack of thunder , must have been close

Unfortunately no photographs , but if I had good ones I would be trying to sell them

I counted the time between the crack of thunder and the screams from a couple of sillies in my office very time the lightening flashed, at one time it was down to 3 seconds

[gap74]

Was out and about with the dog, wandering along the Clyde and Rotten Calder rivers between Newton and Blantyre when it all kicked off, first lightning flash went off followed almost immediately by the crack right above me as I wandered through a wood, was mildly shitting meself until I got so drenched that a lightning bolt would have been a warm treat...

Anyways, no pics of lightning, but I did snap a few of the clouds before it got to me, thinking they looked interestingly stormy, but not actually suspecting my weather-prediction skills would prove accurate. Ended up sheltering in the old concrete bunkers of Blantyreferme AA gun site - God bless WWII concrete, even after all these years, it provides shelter of some description!

Some pics of the hail taken there too - the phone and the beer can are just for scale, those items weren't, alas, falling from the sky....










Redlees Quarry

[sds]

Great light-show this afternoon with a spectacular discharge of lightning over Glasgow.

I had a grand-stand view as the storm moved from East to West. The Gorbals took a hammering - we couldn't decide if it was House of Sher or one of the Stirlingfaulds that took a direct hit

I have never experienced a shorter time lapse between lightning and the crack of thunder , must have been close

Unfortunately no photographs , but if I had good ones I would be trying to sell them

I counted the time between the crack of thunder and the screams from a couple of sillies in my office very time the lightening flashed, at one time it was down to 3 seconds

Oh, there were some strikes that were much closer than that.

The loudest of the day, and by far the loudest thunderclap I'd heard in my life, came in under a second from the thunder bolt. The light shone off the buildings in such a way that it felt like good old Gilmorehill had taken a direct hit!

I saw a good couple of bolts hit down in the direction of the science centre and the cranes in the Govan shipyards also. No idea if they were hit or if it was beyond.

But there was a good hour of lightning, at least. Pretty awesome.

[glasgowken]

I was walking along that wee road between the Pond Hotel & Gartnavel, a lightning bolt struck less than 100 yards away in the trees near the old railway station building

[gap74]

Forgot to add, as I cowered in Blantyre, my colleagues in work were huddling in Hope Street as the theatre took its second lightning strike in a year, tripping both the intruder and fire alarms, and frazzling various pieces of electrical equipment that were vulnerable.

Perhaps the man upstairs is trying to tell us something....

[Dave]

Perhaps the man upstairs is trying to tell us something....

Aye............Welcome to Scotland

[gap74]

I blame last month's Jerry Sadowitz show, personally!

[Vinegar Tom]

I blame last month's Jerry Sadowitz show, personally!

You might have a point - Britain's greatest living comedian was funnier than ever. I was in tears for the first ten minutes.

[gap74]

He was indeed on top form, although I suspect it'll be a long, long time before the grand old Victorian auditorium gets turned briefly into a porn cinema again!

[AlanM]

I got this


Its a still lifted from this video

[tobester]

That is one helluvva shot Alan

I watched it hitting garrowhill on tues from the car park at the Fort. I was hoping it blew garrowhill up (:)) so i didnt have to go through there on wed

[Blueboy]

Some pics here: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/disp ... 93.0.0.php

Posted by: Prof. Wilkins, Institute of Traditional Strategum on 11:32am Wed 30 Apr 08
The Institute has done much research on this. We have concluded that this action was an act of God, and we must all prepare for the end. The end is nigh folks, the end is nigh. Run for your lives, there is no time to protect your children, every man for themselves. My advice is to get any weapons you can and stockpile food. God is angry - very, very angry.

[Vinegar Tom]

I suspect it'll be a long, long time before the grand old Victorian auditorium gets turned briefly into a porn cinema again!

I'd forgotten about that bit - I think it will be a long, long time before Rabbi Burns plays that theatre again.

[AlanM]

That pic of lightning on Buchanan Street in the Evening Times looks doctored to me. The sky has been replaced by a shot of one with lightning - to get a shot of lightning, which you can't predict, you'd need to keep the shutter open for a few seconds at a time (if you fire the shutter when the lightning flashes it is over before you have reacted) and the people are too sharp and the sky too dark for that to have happened.