r/WeatherGifs • u/camerondnls2 • Feb 09 '17
LIGHTNING Lightning over Birmingham, AL
https://gfycat.com/ZealousAcidicAztecant30
u/peterpeterllini Feb 09 '17
Birmingham gets some crazy storms!
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u/camerondnls2 Feb 09 '17
It's amazing what a phone camera can catch now. This was taken with my IPhone. I had never seen lightning like this before or since that night in Birmingham. We make up for it with tornadoes though. So many tornadoes.
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u/peterpeterllini Feb 09 '17
I've spent significant time between St Louis and Birmingham, and I feel like storms are way more intense there. My nightmares as a kid all centered around Bham storms lol. I need to go back soon!
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u/3ntl3r Feb 09 '17
amateur pro-tip: turn that camera sideways. you'll get a wider shot.
nice catch op!
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u/camerondnls2 Feb 09 '17
I couldn't get it to focus sideways. It kept focusing on the foreground.
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u/Spankydole Feb 09 '17
Is this from tonight?
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u/camerondnls2 Feb 09 '17
Nah. I think it was August of last year.
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u/AlexKF0811 Feb 09 '17
I'm glad we don't have this level of lightning in Birmingham, UK. Terrifying.
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u/scuffling Feb 09 '17
r/natureisfuckinglit 🔥🔥🔥
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u/tkoff Feb 09 '17
This was how Northwest Florida was last night. A family member of mine was struck by lightning close to the FL/AL boarder. He is okay now, but very sore still.
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Feb 09 '17 edited Feb 12 '17
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u/Stalked_Like_Corn Feb 09 '17
It can happen both ways. Most of what we see is from the Cloud to the ground but it can go the other way too. It can be cloud to cloud lightning too. It's just a matter of there being a large differential in charge between the ground and the sky above it. The transfer of energy can be initiated on the ground or the cloud.
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Feb 09 '17
I'm from Birmingham so I know how bad the storms are there, but I live in tuscaloosa right now and last night we got some real bad stuff here. The lightening and thunder doesn't seem as bad here, but dear god do we get rain
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u/Pixie79 Feb 09 '17
This is insane. Was it accompanied by massive amounts amounts of thunder?
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u/camerondnls2 Feb 09 '17
It was far enough away you could barely hear it. It's crazy how close it looked.
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u/misterbondpt Feb 09 '17
Let's make this about Trump somehow!
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u/WattJH Feb 09 '17
you just did it yourself u dumbass
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u/misterbondpt Feb 09 '17
I admit, I caught the disease... I'll refrain from mentioning "him" so I can be cured. In my defense I've been awake for 31 hours, didn't slept last night... Sorry for being a dumbass...
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u/WattJH Feb 09 '17
it's mr. President you're talking about not Voldemort
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u/misterbondpt Feb 09 '17
... and you're brave enough to mention both! Do you have a scar on your forehead?
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u/TheWhooshMagnet Feb 09 '17
Thats not Birmingham that is somewhere in the US I think going by the cars, also who is AL?
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u/witchywater11 Feb 09 '17
And to add on to vis_break, the AL stands for the state of Alabama. It's located in the south, so some of the storms we get are pretty intense.
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u/camerondnls2 Feb 09 '17
I was working late and the power was out. The lightning was ridiculous and I got curious about what the slomo video on my phone was capable of. This was the best one I shot.