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Post by nematode on Nov 29, 2010 12:53:20 GMT
In the early hour of Saturday morning (around 00:30 27/11/2010) I was just about to go to bed and found myself looking out my living room window. Some blue flashes caught my eye like a camera flash. There were two flashes in quick succession like a flicker and they were an unmistakable deep blue colour. They appeared to be as bright as fireworks being set off about 5 miles away. They came from the horizon in a direction exactly south. My position is just southsoutheast(ish) of Ballymena.
Yesterday a friend asked me what the blue flashes were that he saw on Friday night /Saturday morning. He described the same two flashes at the same time. Except for him they were quite bright and lit up quite an area of the sky. Again, they were observed on the horizon. For him they were form the southeast. He is near Katesbridge. He expected thunder but heard nothing. And he was surprised by the deep blue colour of the flashes.
My thinking is that it was lightning. It could have been high up in the Mournes. Is it possible that the clear high pressure air meant that I could see the lightning from Ballymena? Did anybody else see this? Did anybody near the Mournes hear anything?
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Post by irishbloke on Nov 29, 2010 19:53:38 GMT
Nematode, I saw these flashes too. I'm down near lisburn and the flashes were in also in a southern direction. They were really bright blue flashes. I also thought it was some sort of lightning. It was just too big/bright for a firwork that i couldn't hear. I saw a couple of good meteors too.
Interesting, maybe someone will have a definitive answer. Brian
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Post by jonathan on Nov 30, 2010 23:59:33 GMT
Hi folks what you have seen is known as thunder snow if you do a u tube search some guy down south got a video of it.
jonathan
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Post by Simon on Dec 1, 2010 10:07:30 GMT
Hi folks what you have seen is known as thunder snow if you do a u tube search some guy down south got a video of it. jonathan Amazing! I never knew of the phenomena. You'd never imagine thunder and lightning is below freezing conditions or in snow storms. It make lightning even more mysterious.
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