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Dry lightning Jan 5th 2013 caused 100's fires near Table Top Mountain, Book Book and Wagga Wagga
Dry lightning On Saturday night and the early hours of Sunday morning, after a day of severe dry heat. Forecast models said less than 300 Cape and -1.5 for LFTX and not much of a trigger. Over all temps and moisture where not so good, however in small isolated pockets there where areas of good moisture in upper and lower atmosphere and After dark I knew upper air would cool. I thought to myself that If the upper air does cool quick enough and storms before sunset get high enough that heat in the ground will be released and could sustain cells enough to produce good lightning.
So I ended capturing the lightning that started hundreds of fires around wagga wagga, Book book, Forrest hill, Galore, Tumbarumba Table top mountain NSW.
The video begins with me leaving finley and heading to very close to Albury, then to Tabletop Mountain for some cloud time lapse and daytime lightning capture. Spent about hours waiting for sun set at a lake near there. Then on the Hume up to Book Book where I observed Fire Fighters scurrying all over the place trying to put out fires in the most crazy conditions. It was sooooo hot, dry and windy. I take my hat off to those guys, they had a very hard job. I had a quick little interview with one firefighter from Galore I believe. From there I went to Wagga Wagga where I captures some fantastic lightning, and finally from Forrest hill where the best lightning in this video is from toward the end.
I offered this footage to ABC News , they said they'd call me back, but didn't. they coulda had it for free. This is the Villain that started all the fires. I seem to be the only one with decent video of that night. Most people had little clue there would be such ferocious lightning. I knew there would be lightning good enough to photograph, but not up to 6 or strikes a minute from just one little cluster of cells. It was absolutely wild.
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