Lightning Strike in Herefordshire UK - Weds. 15th April 2009

[robertsja9999]

your voice is annoying me.

[thewhiteroom23]

Think I remember this storm. Shame the rest of the Summer produced so very little in the way of storms. Quite a disappointing year stormwise actually. Nice capture though.

[cleanasyougo]

and next week we'll watch a kettle boil water and marvel at electricity from the wall.....woooooo.

[Nemesys422]

Hi, great video and commentary. I too shot a lightning bolt and slowed it down on my edit suite. Take a look on my channel on here and let me know what you think...

The intense phases of this return stroke are as our friend suggested, and belong to the fact that lightning has a 3 dimensional structure and these apparent 'beads' are visible dependent upon the perspective of the observer. They are often mistaken for the phoenomenon of 'ball' lightning. Hope this helps, thanks for the video ;-)

[RWD133]

Good lightning strike, avoid talking though...

[TheFlumps789]

nice vid...the brighter spots on the lightning channel are prob where the channel doubles up on itself as it arcs to the ground amplifying the light....just an educated guess really...keep posting when u get some more storms :)

[ComedyFings]

You may be right. I guess people may think they are always looking sideways at a lightning strike but in reality some of it is moving away or towards the viewer; hence possibly explaining the brighter spots. Yeah, I hope I have the chance to film more weather phenomena like this.