Storms

We had a fairly quiet storm season in November and December. And most of January as well and then as to make up for it we had a week where electrical storms were forecast everyday for 6 days. We didn't have lightning on all those days but on the days that we did holy cow it made up for the lack of storms in a mighty way. It was SPECTACULAR and right above us and LOUD and LONG and the lightning was striking at less than five second intervals about 340 degrees around us. It was AMAZING and totally truly AWESOME!

This is a huge cell that came through in the early hours of the morning and woke everyone up. Just after it passed through the rain just bucketed down. Perth is not designed to cope with rain and certainly not as fast and full on as this was. It turns the drivers into wimps as well.... and I don't just mean a bit cautious- I mean having a break down I don't know if I can drive in this.... New Zealanders would laugh in the face of Western Australian fear of rain driving. :-)

 

These pictures (above and below) were taken literally seconds apart on the same day. Above is the northern end of our street- sunny day. Below is  the southern end- full blown storm. It's so cool!

This was the last day of the week of storms and by far the most spectacular. Kieran and I went out in the car to watch and eventually got scared home.... it was crazy.

Lightning is a powerful bulb.

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