Well I'm off to bed, will have one ear tuned for thunder!

Number of strikes seems to be dropping in the last 20 minutes or so. Hopefully it finds some more fuel and surges back up.

A bit of reassurance from thunderstruck would come in handy right about now

Fantastic cloud to cloud lightning to my SW

Well fog trying to lift. Trying. Can see distant flashes. Sw wind cold and gusty. Really hope the low cloud breaks up completely

GOT myself a lightning pic, but i'm afraid you guys might think it tacky,,,, but hear goes!.



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yeah baby,,,, look at those brancy crawlers

Thanks WG. That put a HUGE smile on my face.

Thanks for the reminder, my HF antenna would make a good lightening rod, anyway I'm off to bed for a while after a big day at Blewitt Springs.

Hopefully it all holds together long enough to get across the gulf and I get woken up to the sound of thunder, looking good at the moment.

Infrequent strobe lightning to my S SW. Can see a few stars now.

Sitting down at glenelg watching the lighting go crazy while my drunken partner and friends go swimming haha. Nights like this that remind me why I love adelaide storms on the horizon but still warm enough for a swim

GRRR at wind increasing! Its bad for tripod if it gets too windy. It will shake it slightly even if I take lightning pic result in blurry. I have good quality Manfrotto tripod, quite heavy but that rapid increasing in wind is a bad timing though. Ah well. I hope wind die down before storm get closer.

another line forming out in the bight wish i was on ep tonight would be insane out there

If your tripod has a hook in the middle maybe try hanging a heavy camera bag from there to stabilize. You could try a higher ISO also maybe? *shrug* I'm a very beginner photographer....I bet ol' hillsrain has shot in some windy conditions in his time.

edit - gustin' fierce all of a sudden. Eleven hours forty six minutes...mark.

Wind just picked up here 37Km/h.
20.4C and still -2.1C/h
63% RH

Not looking that good at the moment, has become a little less organised as it was earlier.... some areas dying off and becoming less active... hope they kick on a bit otherwise it's bedtime!

Actually I hope I do have a hook I will check out thanks for giving me hint that was good idea!

Bom Doppler looks odd:

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR64I.loop.shtml#skip

Comments of wisdom ?

Ill post some more tomorrow, hope everyone who wants it gets a storm

That's a Stunningly Beautiful image!!!

Can you let us in on the exposure details Az

hey TW Im having trouble uploading images at the moment, when I get ahold of tomorrow I'll let you know :-)

I wouldn't bother going south now, stay north for anyone who lives N. Southern stuff I feel will tend to a bit of a rainband, patchy in nature with the odd strike, fresher cleaner cells shoulf fire up on the top edge of the band across the Spencer and YP and then head in towards the burbs.

Very unstable through the mids, and sensational convergence keeping this line going with assistance form jet aloft and the classic nocturnal cooling.

Great image Azza, that is one seriously high base, looks like nothing and then a CG!

TS