Dramatic Lightning over Poznan, Poland

[Laurence Green]

Via the BBC News website comes this dramatic capture of bolt lightning over Poznan, Poland.

 

Laurence

[Howard Brown]

I submitted a reply to this but it vanished. Here’s an edit.

Bolt?

It seems you introduced this, Laurence, not the BBC caption. I have failed to find ‘bolt lightning’ on google except ‘bolt from the blue’ – lightning from a distant source. Sorry to be pedantic.

http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/types/

There is a lot going on in the picture and I wish someone could enlighten me.

[Hans Stocker]

It seems the subject enlightens itself Hygge and you even did it already yourself with the nice link to a site with an explanation of different kind of lightnings. So thanks for that link.

Also googling around I found that bolt lightning does not appear to be any specific kind of lightning in English language, except for the Usain kind of lightning. And that is what you also seemed to have found googling on the subject, Hygge. I suppose Laurence did not mean differently?

Spectacular picture over Poznan anyway Laurence!

[Laurence Green]

Thanks Hans and Hygge

I am ok that the term I used, “Bolt Lightning” is not graphically or meteorologically correct but that is the way I described it.

You must have heard of the well used phrase, “A bolt from the blue”?

A quick Google search on the Images page using “Bolt Lightning” as a quick search will show more bolts.

Laurence

 

 

 

[Laurence Green]

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[Laurence Green]

Hans & Hygge

I feel I must offer to you an apology if the use of my term, “Bolt Lightning” caused unintended confusion.  I really should have used the more correct term, Thunderbolt.  A search on GOOGLE Images using the word Thunderbolt will throw up scores of photos.

Again, my apologies.

Laurence

[Hans Stocker]

Dear Laurence, no need for apologies at all! Imho there was nothing wrong with the use of the term bolt lightning accompanying the picture as far as I could figure out. Hygge asked to be enlightened about the use of the term “bolt” together with lightning and my reply was an attempt to do so. My English is not native, and trying to find out the exact terminology I discovered that bolt lightning is just common language and does not mean something specific like “ball lightning” (correct me if I am wrong).

It is fun to find out more about these subtle differences in meaning or in interpretations of words and language. So thank you Laurence for this journey through the subject lightning  and for the great picture and thanks Hygge for the enlightening overview of all sorts of lightnings.

[George Preoteasa]

Fascinating and terrifying lightning. Based on the NOAA link, I would say this is a cloud to air spider lightning.

Anyway, I’d rather see something like this from inside a house or car.

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