We had a severe lightning storm in Hobart this evening accompanied with torrential rain. One of the most intense storms I’ve ever seen here. Looking on the weather radar, the weather front streched some 1300 km to Broken Hill and Melbourne copped the brunt of it.
I set the Olympus up in LiveView mode, with exposures up to 1000 seconds. Now, you would think that would yeild lots of lightning, but of course it only flashed while I was wiping the lens or between shots 🤔 I finally managed to catch one in a second wave some time later. A large bolt hit the high voltage transmission tower on the hill … and that’s when we lost power 😔
All’s good, typing this on my phone under head torch light 😀 I don’t usually post on my phone, so lets see how this goes 😅
Enjoy your day.
TasView 
I hope the power returned quickly and everyone is ok! I woke up to 2 inches of snow. First snow-shoveling of the year. 😀
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Ooowh, that sounds nice .. and cold! Still, shovelling gets you warm 🙂 Our power was off until 2pm the next day. There was a problem with the line into our valley, only 11 houses were affected so we’re always the last to get fixed.
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I think it’s crazy weather everywhere these days.
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I’ve never known a wetter spring here, crazy is right!
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British Columbia is nearly floating away this year. Strange how this year it is more extreme in many places all over the world.
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I guess all the extra water evaporating in the hot areas has to fall somewhere! A small part of this system produce big toe sized hail, damaging many crops in the Huon area south of me.
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Wow! We haven’t seen hail in a long time. Just as well. But it’s supposed to snow tonight.
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We don’t get hail often and I’ve never seen it as big here as I saw in a friends photo! Freaky 😳
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It can be hard on car roofs.
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Great shot. Am I missing something or is a hill the best place to locate a high voltage transmission tower?
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Thanks David 😀 The powerlines traverse across over our deep valley, then over a ridge where the tower is, below the top of the hill. There’s also a communication tower on top of the hill which also got hit by a smaller strike.
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Crazy cool shot!!
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Thanks 😊 glad I got at least one!
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Great photo! I hope the power wasn’t off for too long. Small price to pay for a shot like this!
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Thanks Sandra, power was out until 2pm the next day but all is good 👍
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