Huffington Post – by Dominique Mosbergen
Mother Nature put on a spectacular light show in the Big Apple Friday night as massive thunderstorms descended upon the city.
Social media was abuzz with videos and photographs taken of the weather event, including some showing lightning striking the spire of the new One World Trade Center.
Two bolts of lightning strike One World Trade Center. (INSIDER IMAGES/Gary Hershorn) pic.twitter.com/lRcNoj5dK5
— Insider Images (@insiderimages) May 24, 2014
This is awesome. The lightning is repeatedly striking the One World Trade Center. Such an awesome view. pic.twitter.com/XavVxwtxbg
— Tim Toda (@tim_toda) May 24, 2014
And one right on the spire @FreedomTowerNY Gorgeous stormy gotham #nyc #lightning #weather pic.twitter.com/Gow3SCfukb
— t3nman (@t3nman) May 24, 2014
According to the AP, bad weather delayed flights at New York City area airportsFriday.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/23/lightning-world-trade-center_n_5383724.html
Needless to say, we have not been able to view the Meteor Shower. Looks like we won’t be able to see it tonight, either (more rain).
We could sure use some of that rain out here on the West Coast. CA is as dry as a bone.
. . .
Wish I could send you some.
Ah yes — memories of NYC. That part of the planet that has no stars in the sky. I forgot about the meteor shower, but I did see a few meteors when I was out last night. I guess I caught it by accident.
🙂
It is suppose to be happening tonight, also.
I’m going to look for it. We have clear skies here. It should be nice.
You may not see a lot tonight. The peak was last night into this morning, but I heard that it would last through Sunday.
I wonder how many times each year that gets struck. It has to be a big target.
Bottom picture — left side. See the building with the pyramid on top and the illuminated capstone? I’m willing to bet that it’s owned by Zekendorf. (I probably spelled his name wrong, but he likes his illuminati pyramids on the tops of his buildings)
there will be plenty more meteor showers dont worry.
ever wonder why they never said the source?
as for wtc,
lightning conductors arent designed for constant use – much more of that and it may take the top of the building off if the grounding fails!
“The Camelopardalids was debris from Comet 209P/LINEAR, a very dim comet that orbits the sun every five years. The comet was discovered in 2004 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project, a partnership of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.”
http://www.news10.net/story/life/2014/05/25/camelopardalids-meteor-shower-not-so-spectacular/9564503/
We actually had some lightning during one of our rare storms a while back.
Pretty scarce these days.