I was out at the east coast today (Skegness) there was a few showers
but then at about 3pm there was a thunder storm. A short burst of
heavy rain (very large drops) a number of rumbles of thunder. Looking
out to see where the main storm was I saw 2 separate flashes of
lightning. Counting to the thunder they were about 20 miles off the
coast. Now the question is why does the above not show up on the
sferics. This is the second time I have questionned them, in the
resent severe weather there were some storms witth large numbers of
flashes and strikes but the sferics where showing less than 9 flashes
in a half hr period. So how well do the sferic charts compare with
ground truth.

http://meteocentre.com/lightning/

http://129.13.102.67/wz/pics/Rsfloc.gif


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Simon Sheaf
Sheffield South Yorkshire
http://www.anycities.com/user/yorkshireweather
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Top Karten has shown the TS activity in the North Sea quite well.... i've
seen the occasional distant flash of lightning light up the horizon from
here (Wallsend) this evening too... quite common in this kind of airmass.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsbeobl.html

Les





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I was out at the east coast today


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"Les Crossan" wrote in message


Top Karten has shown the TS activity in the North Sea quite well.... i've
seen the occasional distant flash of lightning light up the horizon from
here (Wallsend) this evening too... quite common in this kind of airmass.

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsbeobl.html


Satellite Experiment Snaps Photos Of Sprites, Jets And Elves.... -or to
put
it another way; what we see at the bottom of the ocean is only the
surface
of what is actually going on in thunder storms:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/eo-04zzz.html



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