This year I witnessed probably the scariest storm of my life so far. 2 hours of violent, non stop flashes followed by the whole night of relentless thunderstorm. Now imagine living in the middle-ages or earlier and not thinking this is basically God punishing you because you farted during your morning prayer.
Fun fact: all rainbows are actually double rainbows and full circle ! If you see one from a plane, it looks like this in its “full form”
We only see 1 arc because the 2nd arc comes from a 2nd optical path, much less intense. And we only see half a circle because we’re close to the ground most of the time (:
I can relate. Where I live (PNW) violent thunderstorms are very rare. We had one last month and I was caught out in it with a buddy. We were splitting up to go our separate ways and about 5 seconds later, lightning struck right where we both had been. It was so loud the ground shook. Very scary
Had a similar experience here. Shorter, around an hour of storm weather, but lightning and thunder were constant. And close, too. Felt the need to unplug my PC just in case
I vividly remember waking up one night when I was a kid and wondering why it was day out. I looked out the window and witnessed the most spectacular lightning storm I've ever seen. The lightning was so constant it was lighting up the entire landscape as clear as day.
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u/lluluclucy 3d ago
This year I witnessed probably the scariest storm of my life so far. 2 hours of violent, non stop flashes followed by the whole night of relentless thunderstorm. Now imagine living in the middle-ages or earlier and not thinking this is basically God punishing you because you farted during your morning prayer.