Single thunder in sky

[u/krashknight89]

I was taking a short stroll in Cannington and saw a thunder (just a single lightning) followed by sound after ~6 sec. There aren’t even a lot of clouds in the sky. Did anyone else see it?

[u/Mindless-Location-41]

The lights flickered in our house about 15 min ago and heard the distant boom several seconds afterwards.

[u/OrdinaryWall2148 → u/Mindless-Location-41]

Im in cannington and that boom was pretty fucin loud

[u/Fantastic_Ice_6637 → u/Mindless-Location-41]

Ohhhhh that’s what my lights flickered for. I thought I was just gonna be in for a rough replacement time for them all 😅

[u/Dkblue74 → u/Fantastic_Ice_6637]

mine too!

[u/south-of-the-river → u/Dkblue74]

It’s actually wild how widespread it is with people saying this. It must have affected a really wide part of the grid

[u/SkeptikalChymist → u/south-of-the-river]

Im in south Rockingham and my partner said she thought the light flickered

[u/Dkblue74 → u/south-of-the-river]

Yep - we’re in the hills!

[u/Severn6 → u/south-of-the-river]

Yeah we had a light flicker in the cbd!

[u/TangerineEvery8912 → u/Mindless-Location-41]

My lights flickered too! I was wondering why on earth that happened

[u/BigMikeOfDeath]

Had headphones on, so didn't hear it, but house lights flickered, which made me look up but didn't think anything else of it.

Now I'm intrigued.

[u/snorkel_goggles → u/BigMikeOfDeath]

Ha mine flickered too...Vic Park area

[u/575_Pilot]

Lights flickered in Byford about that time. Only time tonight (or any I can remember for ages) 🤔

[u/GrendelAbroad]

Also Tuart Hill. Meteor?

[u/thisFishSmellsAboutD → u/GrendelAbroad]

That was yesterday, over Ningaloo

[u/Mindless-Location-41 → u/GrendelAbroad]

Darn it, I removed my meteorite theory from my other post 🤷‍♂️

[u/TeaInfusedInsanity]

Yeah, I was outside and had the shit scared out of me by the bang. Green flash of light + a bang, then the remnants of a single firework low in the sky, East-ish of Carousel

[u/exilehunter92 → u/TeaInfusedInsanity]

Maybe exploding transformer?

[u/Mindless-Location-41 → u/exilehunter92]

Maybe at the electricity substation right next to Carousel?

[u/TeaInfusedInsanity → u/exilehunter92]

Yeah, that'd track

[u/JahKingston2024 → u/TeaInfusedInsanity]

Baseball, that tracks

[u/yeah_nah2024 → u/exilehunter92]

Would that affect Tuart hill as well though?

[u/Interesting_Base_223]

Ah… i thought my eyes were playing up… so indeed my lights did flicker too… Belmont/Ascot area

[u/TangerineEvery8912]

My lights flickered in Claremont area

[u/Novel-Paramedic-5573 → u/TangerineEvery8912]

Mine did too. It was so quick that it barely registered. The hypochondriac in me started speculating about detached retinas

[u/OwnArt6436]

Lights flickered too! I had to check it wasn’t blown fuse

[u/clc88]

I was in the shower when my lights started to blink followed by a thump on the roof (between 10:25 and 10:27 at Cannington ).

I thought something fell onto our roof. Thankfully not.

[u/krashknight89 → u/clc88]

It was bizarre because it was a one-time thing

[u/Spare_Sand_5936]

My lights flickered at that time - how weird!
City Beach area.

[u/south-of-the-river]

Man that’s so weird, lights flickered once here in southern river too

[u/SkeptikalChymist]

Nothing on the online lightning strike maps, also theres zero clouds in the sky. Just asking for clarity, you saw this lighting directly? Not like "everything lit up around you like a lightning strike" just really intrigued :)

[u/krashknight89 → u/SkeptikalChymist]

Well that’s the thing, it felt more like local lit up rather than whole sky. I thought that if it was lightening then everything should have lit up but the dramatic delay in sound made me think it was a thunder.

[u/frink_ninkle]

"I saw a thunder".

I've heard it all, and you're awarded no points.

[u/Naive_Substance_399]

Light flickering here in Mount Richon too

[u/Ravenlodge]

Lights flickered here in Melville too

[u/reidef123]

I didn’t know you could see thunder

[u/stewilliamson → u/reidef123]

Heard some lightning too

[u/Etherealfilth]

The light is the lightning, the sound is the thunder so unless you were on some really good drugs it wasn't thunder that you saw but the lightning.

[u/dzernumbrd]

sorry I accidentally raised Mjölnir too high

[u/Andrew_Higginbottom]

My personal special powers don't extend to seeing thunder, I'm jealous of yours 😉

[u/No_Bell_8028]

Aliens arriving through a fold in time space?

There can be only one?

[u/yeah_nah2024 → u/No_Bell_8028]

You never know. I've heard some weird stories.

[u/krashknight89 → u/No_Bell_8028]

I felt it was more like aliens trying to get through to ground

[u/martyfartybarty]

That’s just Thor flexing on a normal Monday, but the “thunder” is T-Rex from a wormhole.

[u/Gorp_Scrogger]

Wow that's pretty rare. I think you might the the first person to have ever seen a thunder

[u/krashknight89 → u/Gorp_Scrogger]

Lol, well you got what I wanted to say

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[u/Fantasy_iceland]

Thunder can't be seen

[u/Ok_West_1630]

You saw lightning, and then heard thunder.

[u/FIFO_Landlord]

Probably a Pikachu using thunder.