Thunderstorm Timelapse - South Dakota

[lukemc]

Hi,

Here is a facinating timelapse of a thunderstorm over the Great Plains (South Dakota) at night in June last year - it seems to go on all night from dusk to dawn with frequent C-G lightning in all directions - all pretty amazing. A question for you on here - does this look like a Mesoscale Convective System? And does anyone ever remember a similar duration storm occuring at night in the UK? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7b9OBhrE5o

Luke

[Raidan]

That's cool! Thanks for sharing

[dave48]

That is brilliant, thanks for posting that.

[Jane Louise]

Great video there. I can't say that I recall a similar duration storm occuring at night here in the UK but I'm sure someone else will be along who may know.

[Harry]

A remember a mass of thunderstorms (MCS) in 1997/98 which lasted for about 5 hours...that video seems a bit longer.

The Aug 6th 2008 series of storms lasted for around 4 hours.

I remember a whole host of storms in the 90s and early 00s tbh which lasted for hours (because I was so brontophobic)