Morning light show

I'm guessing that many of you woke up this morning (16 August 2020) to the intense thunder and lightning storm across the Bay Area.  It was one of the most amazing lightning storms I've ever experienced.  It was so incredible that it was hard to do anything other than watch and listen, but Eric and I managed a couple of rough recordings.  

Eric captured these video clips with a point-and-shoot camera just outside our front door in Cotati.  The video is ~30 seconds long, so be sure to watch through the dark sections (there are lightning flashes at 1 second, 10 seconds, 18 seconds, and 28 seconds).  [If you can't see the video player in your e-mail, click on the title of the post above to go to the NHBH website.]

 

I recorded some audio examples of the thunder.  The lightning was really the show-stopper during this storm, and I realized later that I sometimes exclaimed during some of the recording.  Oh, well!  Perhaps it reveals the intensity of the storm.  

Three audio examples below.  Listen with headphones if you can.  You might need to turn up the volume of your speakers.  [If you can't see the audio files below, click on the title of this post to go to the NHBH website.]

Audio example 1 (includes two episodes of thunder):

nhbh · thunder1 sones 16aug2020

Audio example 2:

nhbh · thunder2 sones 16aug2020

Audio example 3:

nhbh · thunder3 sones 16aug2020