We’re all on tenterhooks, what with North Korea, Donald Trump, and the Hawaiian Alert, so that BOOM that rattled windows rattled hearts across Wallingford, as well.
If I’m reading the LightningMaps.org website correctly, though, it was just a very, very close lightning strike, centered close to the QFC (but sounding like it was in my backyard over by the John Stanford School). The rain intensified noticeably a minute or so after, which I’ve noticed is common with big lightning strikes. Maybe it’s shaking the drops from the sky.
Nothing to see here, move along.
On that extra rain, you’re close but not 100% It’s called a “rain gush” imaginatively enough and is actually caused by the massive and sudden increase in electrical activity:
“In the region of the cloud where the flash occurs, radar measurements have indicated a rapid increase of echo intensity followed by a gush of rain at the ground. The increases in radar reflectivity in small volumes of the cloud following a lightning flash suggest that the electric discharge is influencing the size of particles in the cloud. Within about 30 seconds after a lightning discharge, the mass of some droplets may increase as much as 100-fold as a result of the electrostatic precipitation effect.”
This is one of the most informative comments I have read on Wallyhood in quite some time. Thank you!
It was a notable rumble in Ballardistan. Having lived quite close to Wallingford QFC, I am glad for the added distance. 🙂
Thanks for info and frankie’s info. I am curious what time it occurred?