The New Year's Day electrical storm

I found it amusing that the Bureau of Meteorology withdrew it’s storm warning at 9.41pm last night…

Thanks for the photo complements. I posted some more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/25223017@N00/sets/72157622921790403/

Driving southbound on the GDE at about 12.15 am and I noticed Telstra Tower was completely blacked out then headed for Tuggeranong was like driving into a scene from Armageddon – wonderful and far far better than any New Years Eve Fireworks. Mt Taylor seemed to take a hammering with multiple direct hits from the lightning.

Dacquiri… In an “emergency” I tune to 666 am for all the local news.

Great photos.

Dacqiri (6) WIN News are taking another extended holiday, plus they never show a bulletin on the wankends anyway (with the exception of the 2003 Firestorm). The local news drought here is getting more and more severe and bugger-all seems to be done about it.

Incredible photos – well done. Around Urambi Hills it seemed to be very focused – double thunder and lightning etc. Most the carnage started around 0110 and finished 30 mins later. I wish I had the sense at the time to get out the video and film the storm.

Oh man this storm had war of the worlds written all over it. My whole house was lit up with light every 2 seconds yet i couldnt hear any thunder/rain. Was hard to get to sleep :/

Great pics!

I tried grabbing some photos of the light show last night, but they all appeared to be ‘behind’ the clouds with not many proper strikes. Great photos in the album tho.

great photos!

Very nice pictures. Thanks!

Lightning may’ve hit Telstra Tower or something similiar, was listening (or complaining about the repetition at least) to the party mix on the radio late last night and then the next moment I wasn’t. AM was still okay, but no FM on any of our radios. Not sure when it came back to us, if it did, I gave up and put a DVD on.