After The Clouds

. . . then came the storm. At the beginning of this week, late afternoon, the Emergency Broadcasting System kept interrupting Oprah, telling of a storm coming, threatening lightening, thunder, hail. After two hours of that and no storm, I went outside to cover a glass top table just in case and take a picture of the sky.

I didn't notice while taking it but you can see a tiny funnel cloud coming down from the clouds.

When the storm finally hit, we got some rain, no hail (although some parts of Fresno did) and lots of lightening and thunder. With all that electricity in the air, I was motivated to pick up the camera, run upstairs to try and catch a picture. You are thinking why am I even showing this, right?

I snapped about 5 shots one after the other to try and capture a picture of the lightening. I downloaded them and then thought I didn’t have very good pictures until noticed that the 1st one was actually the lightening strike, when initially I thought it was steamy and foggy on the window due to the rain. But the shots right after that are not like that at all. So I enlarged them (you can click on the picture twice to enlarge) and saw the little lightening “sparks” running along the lower left of the picture and I wondered if the rest of the blotches are some sort of energy explosions from the lightening. Anybody who can explain this, please make a comment to enlighten my curious mind. Anyway, I thought they were interesting.