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Uploaded by on Aug 1, 2006

I storm chase as a hobby, however on this day I was not chasing, I just got caught off guard. I only had my digital camera with me, so I shot some video footage of the impending storm.

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  • Where are the shadows in my video? There must be shadows if it's blue sky right? Where's the sun? I guess this must be a magical video taken on a planet where there is no sun under a blue sky.

    Look kid do the world a favor and stay in school. It's a shame though that you can't buy any common sense on ebay.

    And thanks for watching! :-)

  • The sun can be seen when there are no clouds covering it. When the sun is shining, it casts what we call "shadows" or the absence of light. A shadow can be seen when an opaque (not see through) object blocks the sun's light. For example...(trees, telephone polls, cars etc...) all cast shadows.

  • Tell me genius, if it's blue skies you see, where's the sun? Where are the shadows?

    Maybe you're so ignorant that you don't understand these concepts...allow me to explain.

    When you go outside in the daytime, and there are no clouds above you...the bright yellow warm thing is called the "sun".

  • Without clouds? I'll have you know that lightning can in fact strike 10 - 12 miles away from the leading edge of a storm.

    However in this case, the pic was taken an hour before sunset, and are you aware that blue is the natural color of daylight?

  • This one's great too! Were you using lightning detectors to know where to point the camera?

  • No, I wasn't storm chasing when I took these so I had no professional equipment at the time. Here's something I learned while studying meteorology in college. (If you stand with your back to the wind, low pressure is always to your left.) Don't ask me how, but it works! Lightning can be stray, but for all intensive purposes, now you'll see it coming.

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  • That's not the sky. There are clouds there. The light from the sun filtering through them makes them appear blue. I've seen this myself many times.

  • I love sheet lightning like this.

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  • @ExhumedByScryingEyes was it clouds or a positive giant- which can happen in clear skies?

  • At firs I thought it was blue sky. At closer examination, it looks as if you filmed this at around 7:00 PM? I chase lightning, well, as much as I can. I am only 13. It seems to be not a CG strike, but an anvil crawler. A cloud to cloud mabye. Nice strike though!

  • Cool, What clouds?

  • beast i meant srry

  • woah tht looked beat!!!

  • nice one.

  • dumb moronic videos on youtube

    but this one was cool.

  • wow, looked like a clear sky ! And then Bam !

  • That was cool!

  • why do you say that???

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