Lighting Storm in NYC

[kimoyo]

Lightning Storm in NYC

My bedroom faces a wall but the other rooms in my apartment face downtown. Damn, did I just not see about 20 lightning strikes hitting downtown Manhattan. I got out the camera and started recording them. I heard fire engines, not sure how bad it is because I'm usually not looking downtown during a storm. But I can pretty much see all the way down to the end of the island from my apartment.

I could swear one of those bolts lasted for 2 seconds at least.

 

[KathyC]

That's scary Paul! Any pics you can post?
Hope everyone/thing is okay !!

 

[reefman]

1,378 lightning strikes n counting

 

[DCG1286]

That's scary Paul! Any pics you can post?
Hope everyone/thing is okay !!

It was crazy here Kathy ... it started to rain ... looked like a tidal wave hit all of NYC ... then the hail!

Reefman: bored tonight? lol

 

[PolandSpring]

crap its coming my way right now!! i see the lighting already but no rain or thunder :irked:

 

[nick96ss]

took a beating here on city island . house alarm went off , got buckets lined up in a closet catching water , damn roof leak .

 

[kimoyo]

Here's a video I made.



This is looking at downtown Manhattan. Usually you would see the Empire State Building and the other buildings of the Manhattan skyline. In less than 30 seconds, it went from a clear night to the low visibility you see here. Sorry for the excitement during the video, I hope no one got hurt from this. But I was a little excited catching the lightning on camera.

You can actually hear the wind from the lightning when it hit, never noticed that before.

I made several but this came out the best. I hadn't grabbed the camera by the time the visibility got low or I could have shown you the lightning with the Manhattan skyline.

Here's a picture from the same window about 30 minutes later.

I could get better pictures especially if I go to the roof but this shows the view in the video.

 

[KathyC]

Very cool video Paul!
Mom? cute..lol

 

[kimoyo]

Nah, I said, "Oh I caught another one, OMG". But that really is the city, I'll post a picture of when its clear so you can see my view. Must have been 20 of them right into the city.

 

[Tangs Rule]

As scary as it can be, lighting looks so cool

 

[pmui]

cool vid.

 

[noelskii]

lightning :Blurp: ....parked my car under a tree before it started raining and 20mins later it was covered with leaves and big branches rain only lasted a few mins btw.

 

[kimoyo]

I updated the post with a picture from my window. I should have aimed the camera a little more right to match up with the lightning frame. For perspective, I believe that strike hit in the right hand corner of the picture. But there were bolts all over the skyline.

 

[georgelc86]

One of those lighting storms rolled right over Throggs Neck last night too. Where I live I am in JFK or LaGuadia's landing path so I am watching plans flight right under the storm during their landing. One shot was so bright it lit up the plane like a spot light. The storm didnt last as long as I thought it would. Nice shots Paul.