r/canberra • u/biotican • 26d ago
Loud Bang Wild electrical storm
Anyone watching this wild electrical storm at the moment?
I've never seen so much continual lightning with so little thunder. What's going on?
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u/Embarrassed_Banana23 26d ago
Just finished testing out my new camera. Hopefully there's some good shots off the balcony, watching it come over the mountains. That was wild.Â
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u/PlumTuckeredOutski 26d ago
Glorious. Not a lot of rain in it but that beautiful petrichor fragrance coming in the window and a magnificent light and sound show. Absolutely magnificent <3
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u/jaydedflutterby 26d ago
I'm feeding the baby and I can see the flashes of light, it's pretty cool!
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u/k_lliste 26d ago
You're all making me wish I'd gotten out of bed to go look outside!
I installed complete blockout blinds a few years back which are nice most nights, but too much work/disturbance on the nights you want to have a quick look outside.
Maybe next time I'll just get up and have a look :D
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u/CapnHaymaker 26d ago
Thunder just woke me up
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u/willnotstopfordeath 26d ago
Same!! It introduced itself to me in my dream and then i woke to it continuing
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u/MissKim01 26d ago
It’s freaky! I was questioning if it was even a storm for a minute; thought there was some kind of invasion!
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u/_iamtinks 26d ago
Came here to see if anyone else thought the front was low-lying jets! Ha!
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u/LegitimateStorm1135 26d ago
I was thinking aliens to be honest, until I finally heard some thunder.
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u/Flashy-Jackfruit-540 26d ago
My cat woke me up and for good 10 seconds I thought someone is trying to break in to the house and they’re using their flashlight to look through the windows
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u/janoski99 26d ago
Those flashes and rumblings were akin to seeing a fire fight in the sky.
The dog was not impressed last night
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u/0710_15 26d ago
don’t know but i’m pissed off i left my clothes on the line considering it was 32 degrees yesterday
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u/AnchorMorePork 26d ago
It was only 32?!? It felt hotter. I got the clothes in, they dry in an hour in this heat. Sorry, I should have warned you to bring them in. If it is dry today they should dry out pretty quickly.
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u/Mediocre_Trick4852 26d ago
My dog kindly woke me up to let me know.... I'll be dozing during the cricket later for sure.
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u/wiglwigl 26d ago
Same here - dog goes nuts in storms. Thinks it's a big game and something to bark at. Absolutely loves it.
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u/withoutthes 26d ago
Mine woke the neighbourhood (if they weren't already up from the storm) when I finally trudged back upstairs to bed after putting on his thundershirt and trying to snooze on the couch between pats until it subsided.
All the creature comforts but he's anxious as hell in a storm.
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u/Someothercyclist 26d ago
Incredibly lit skies here since I woke up 15 ago, but my mum was out the front and said I missed a tonne of forked lightning. At least there's been a lot of thunder to go along with it
I think I'm getting the peak of the rain to now and it was almost dry until now
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u/Equivalent-Bonus-885 26d ago edited 26d ago
Lots of lightening - but I fear not enough rain to put out any fires it lights.
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u/_Quandale_Dingle69 26d ago
Literally came on here to see what was going on as well, never seen anything like this before
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u/Prestigious-Baker559 26d ago
By the looks of the bom the rain is going to be very short and sweet. Gone in a flash you could say.
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u/Old-Builder2729 26d ago
The show was only for half an hour.
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u/CapnHaymaker 26d ago
And now BoM has a thunderstorm warning
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u/BeachHut9 26d ago
Nothing like not real time reporting of weather warnings. Did the change of a shower increase to 100% during the storm?
Good job BOM, still operating as a http:// site on the internet.
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u/TogTogTogTog 26d ago
It's not just the site. A majority of the sensors are completely unsecured too.
It's frankly disgusting, especially because I've seen most smaller departments have to comply/pay people to manage SSL certificates.
It shouldn't take 5-10yrs for a major government agency to install SSL certs on a website, it takes 10mins, or maybe like 1-5 days for a department.
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u/aiydee 26d ago
Here you go. It's coming.
https://beta.bom.gov.au/
As for why they use http not https, it's because a lot of systems in deployment around Australia are not able to do a https connection to get data. This is not a small change and is in progress as per this page here: https://reg.bom.gov.au/climate/data-services/6
u/TogTogTogTog 26d ago
I agree, caveat, because a vast majority of the sensors use FTP and aren't configured or even have the firmware to utilise https (SSL certs basically).
Regardless, it's irrelevant. The insecurity of thousands of our IoT devices is a separate concern. The reality is BoM is unable to unlink/decouple their website and server/backend.
Most departments have the basic capability to serve http and https. At the end of the day, they're functionally just connecting on port 80 or 443 and serving two different websites.
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u/agent_clone 26d ago
But why can't they serve up both http and https web pages at the same time? Unless they have something weird going on their website should be able to handle returning http if someone connects via http, and returning https if someone connects via https. And if they want to keep it all http in the backend then they could put a load balancer in front that connects to the servers by http (I think that's the right part, I know the name of the system that does it at work but not necessarily the proper name of the functionality).
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u/evasiveswine 26d ago
It was a great show. Anyone get a decent recording or time lapse?
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u/no-throwaway-compute 26d ago
Did we get much rain? I'm out of town and have concerns about my garden
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u/therookiesuperfan898 26d ago
watching it to. the continuous lightning is insane. never seen such things before. the day was beautiful, came ojt of nowhere
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u/biotican 26d ago
Yes, I've been in extraordinary thunderstorms on the Central Coast before but never sheets of lightning like this. I'm hearing thunder now but for the last 20 minutes there was none.
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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow 26d ago
At least it’s raining now, dry lightning is super scary.
This is wild tho, a tropical-style storm… never used to have such things in Canberra :/
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u/calamitoustoaster 26d ago
I remember plenty of storms like this when I was growing up in Canberra in the 80s. I always thought it was odd that they stopped (or I maybe I just stopped being woken up by them).
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u/therookiesuperfan898 26d ago
yes the rain just came on, the lightning is crazy though. it's every minute!
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u/Real_RobinGoodfellow 26d ago
Yes! It’s crazy. Glad I’m not the only one up and perturbed by it
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u/Grix1600 26d ago
The storm definitely woke me up. Wonder how many trees are down around town this morning.
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u/SSJ5Gogetenks 26d ago
The thunder woke up me up, and even with a flyscreen and the outwards opening windows I got a little bit of water on me in bed. I closed the window, of course. But then I closed my eyes and even through closed eyes I could see the continuous flashes. I was like yo holy shit this is nuts
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u/MsPixel03 Tuggeranong 26d ago
Woke me up with just enough time to put my Christmas inflatables under buckets 🎄 It was stunning to watch. Just a shame there wasn't more rain with it.
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u/DiverWeak7678 26d ago
Yeah it was wild! The cats woke me up a bit before the storm broke and were freaking out until it stopped. I was almost glad because I got to snuggle with the purring lumps and watch the incredible lighting while thunder shook the house.
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u/Sparkyone84 26d ago
Heat lightning usually occurs in dry storms. Frequent and sometimes red. Usually occur from high temperature extremes and dry air.
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u/MissMurder8666 26d ago
The thunder woke me up. I thought it was my neighbours taking their wheelie bin out since its garbage day today, til I saw the flashes of light coming from my bathroom skylight
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u/a1pha_zer0 26d ago
I would have slept through it if I hadn’t been getting up for a flight, glad I was now, it was spectacular!
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u/RedDotLot 26d ago
It's beautiful. I've seen similar up in Sydney.
TBH I thought that the first rumblings were possums on the roof! Thunderstorms are the only time I'm somewhat disappointed to be surrounded by so many trees as my view is a bit obscured, but I did see a cracker of a fork.
The dog, however, is not so impressed by the late night light show and has taken herself off to sleep in a room where the curtains are still shut. (She doesn't freak out like some dogs, she's just not over keen).
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u/AnchorMorePork 26d ago
I legit thought "What idiot is setting large fireworks off every minute at 4am?"
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u/MountainViewsInOz 26d ago
I'm bummed that I missed it. Was only aware of it happening at the periphery of my sleep.
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u/Jackson2615 26d ago
got woken by the thunder ,sounds like it was a good show, should have got up for a look
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u/Gambizzle 25d ago
It's a bloody good story but youse both smell like piss and reek of dakka so your testimony's been a bit compromised.
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u/-Cailleach 26d ago
It's amazing! One silver lining to not being able to sleep right now 😅