02-10-2020, 07:02 PM
"Its hundreds of miles away from the coast. Gives an idea of the scale of those lightning bolts.
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3...;dl=2;dc=0;"
No, the storms that produced the lightning we could see were a few miles north of the Hilo and Puna coast - I would estimate 2-miles at closest approach given the timing between lightning and the sound of thunder. Firstly you could not possibly see lightning a few hundred miles from the coast and secondly the thunder could be heard from Hilo (I'm not so sure about Puna). NWS radar had the storms just off our coast.
The low pressure "Kona Low" system is a few hundred miles from us, but not the thunderstorms, which are nearby. You can't see lightning from near sea-level hundreds of miles away unless the earth is flat.
https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;t=3...;dl=2;dc=0;"
No, the storms that produced the lightning we could see were a few miles north of the Hilo and Puna coast - I would estimate 2-miles at closest approach given the timing between lightning and the sound of thunder. Firstly you could not possibly see lightning a few hundred miles from the coast and secondly the thunder could be heard from Hilo (I'm not so sure about Puna). NWS radar had the storms just off our coast.
The low pressure "Kona Low" system is a few hundred miles from us, but not the thunderstorms, which are nearby. You can't see lightning from near sea-level hundreds of miles away unless the earth is flat.