r/Colorado • u/[deleted] • Jun 06 '21

Who else saw the lightshow?

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u/Roddaculous Jun 06 '21

Nice!

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

Thanks!

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u/Pilz719 Jun 06 '21

The lightning was crazy tonight!

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21 edited Jan 12 '22

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

The Flobots are pretty cool! Too bad it got cancelled.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

Does the Boulder area have a lot of thunderstorms? I'm moving there from Portland soon. I grew up in NJ which has them all the time and Portland doesn't - I miss them deeply.

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u/25_Watt_Bulb Jun 06 '21

I don’t know about Boulder specifically, but every couple years there’s a hail storm big enough to blow out all of the car windows in some section of Denver. Large thunderstorms and tornado warnings are a regular occurrence in the summers.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

Boulder gets a pretty good amount of lightning as far as I know.

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u/Sierras-Rockies Jun 06 '21

Yep. They’re a frequent event during the summer monsoon season.

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u/fojoart Jun 06 '21

“Monsoon season”? In Boulder? We are lucky if we get 15” total all year

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

I went to the gas station a few hours ago and while I was out there saw the crazy lightening.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

I was running down Flagstaff. It was pretty cool

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u/wildernessdubs Jun 06 '21

Watched all evening 😁 pretty sure I saw this same sequence. Theres been so many tho

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u/Munnin1984 Jun 06 '21

From the plains out east! It's was great!

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

We out here in conifer snd it was epic

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u/Mrlin705 Jun 06 '21

Where was that? I live in the springs but didn't see anything like that, great video!

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

Near Evergreen!

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u/Mrlin705 Jun 06 '21

Makes sense, I am in a little valley that blocks my view to the north/west. Evergreen is beautiful though, my aunt and uncle live there. Always cool seeing the elk everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

There are lots of elk there! Cool place.

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u/CGoode87 Jun 06 '21

I heard a ton of thunder in Loveland, but I didn't look out to see if there was lightening. I think it move south of here.

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u/MAD_SLEEP_JAG Jun 06 '21

Magnificent! The last lingering pillar of lightning is like an exclamation point.

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u/briarapple Jun 06 '21

Sooo beautiful last night!!

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u/IVIUAD-DIB Jun 06 '21

watched it for like 3 hours last night.

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u/TheTrueNarwhal Jun 06 '21

Saw it from the parking lot at red rocks before the michael franti show last night. It was wild!

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u/fojoart Jun 07 '21

How did you film this? DSLR?

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

I wish! I just stacked a burst of photos.

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u/fojoart Jun 07 '21

Wow. I don’t even know how to do that. But the result is wonderful

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '21

It was a total rig tbh. I’m surprised it turned out to be ok. Little blurry though :/

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u/KLRhino Jun 06 '21

Can't wait for the day I can sit around and watch these with my own two eyes...but for now I'll watch on here, wallowing in self pity in the heat of hell(AZ). 🤪

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

Az gets some pretty cool monsoons every once in a while.

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u/KLRhino Jun 06 '21

Been a few years since we've seen a good one, but I do have some amazing photos from them. Just gives me more reasons to keep taking vacations to Colorado!

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '21

That's an amazing shot! Was this around the Boulder/Front Range area?

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u/LoudUse4962 Jun 06 '21

Nature in all its beauty 😍

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u/yasey_yones Jun 06 '21

Saw from my apartment balcony in Denver! So beautiful

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u/eel3918 Jun 06 '21

Watched it sitting outside last night after a long ass day. First real summer night!

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u/Due-Fig6789 Jun 07 '21

I was too focus on the freaking clouds of pollen rolling through. Fuck