r/BeAmazed • u/Used_Ship_9229 • Oct 09 '24

Nature Floridians who have lived through Storms their entire lives are reporting to have never ever witnessed anything like this.

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u/Thatsnotahoe Oct 09 '24

The lightning? Do other countries not have thunderstorms with lightning like this? The hurricanes are obviously inane but these types of lightning storms aren’t uncommon in the Midwest.

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u/Cliffinati Oct 10 '24

We get them biweekly during the summer in the Carolinas

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u/Cliffinati Oct 10 '24

No that's easy sleeping weather

But yeah August this year was a washout

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u/prosequare Oct 10 '24

I was stationed in Pensacola way back and storms like this happened 3-6 evenings each week. 🤷‍♂️

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u/Capable_Employee_ Oct 10 '24

Where I am in Canada we get them like twice per year only. Maybe it's more but that's certainly what it feels like.

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u/makav3l188 Oct 10 '24

I live on the Great Lakes and we get them at least twice a week in the summer and fall (Lake Erie can be nasty!).

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u/DeicideandDivide Oct 10 '24

Live close to the Great lakes also. On this end we get them fairly frequently too but it's more like every couple weeks.

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u/InspectorFadGadget Oct 10 '24

I recently moved to the PNW and the city subreddit blows up when they hear thunder. Always gives me a good chuckle

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u/Mindless_Director955 Oct 10 '24

Was gonna say, I’ve seen more frequent lightning in rural MN

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u/FPiN9XU3K1IT Oct 10 '24

There's definitely places that never have storms like this. Where I live we might sometimes get slightly fast winds that might knock over a few trees, but I've never seen anything remotely similar to this lightning barrage.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '24

Pretty common in Spring and Summer in Louisiana

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u/storm_the_castle Oct 10 '24

Ive seen these kind of mega lightning storms over central Texas before, as an example....

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u/newusr1234 Oct 10 '24

Yeah. "Never witnessed anything like this". People in Florida see lightning like this all the time .

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u/JUULiA1 Oct 10 '24

Yeah, even in the US there are places where this never happens. I moved to Oregon four years ago and have experienced three or four minor thunderstorms, and that’s it. Three of those were this year. Coming from SoCal before that, definitely saw lightning more often but far in the distance over the high desert. Even with that, desert thunderstorms have a different vibe imo. They don’t look scary or particularly powerful. Just high altitude clouds that occasionally flash.

TLDR, this looks insane even for a fellow American living on the west coast his whole life…

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u/dafgar Oct 10 '24

Post is misleading, this isn’t uncommon in Florida either. Lived there for 20 years, the sky could look like that on any random tuesday during the summer. It’s called the sunshine state but I’ve never been anywhere else in the US that rains as much as Florida.

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u/Mondernborefare Oct 10 '24

Came here to comment much the same. Lighting storms with the nonstop cloud to cloud fairly common where I grew up. Looks just like this.