there were blue.purple flashes in the sky every two minutes. my mum said it lightening but as the saying goes theres never thunder without lighening, so there can't be lightening wihout thunder, there was no sound , he flashes change places one could flash at the left of me then another would flash above. this tooke place at about 12am at 12;30 i loooked out the bedroom an saw the massive flas tthen 3 minutes later i saw this this white like clound that probaly would have be looked like ring if you saw it from above. then it stope all of a suddern i reallly belive it wasn't a storm as it would have passed within minutes .( enter x file s musi here) lol
2006-07-26 23:07:59 · 21 answers · asked by helen l 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
also there were no bolts and the flash was very quick
2006-07-26 23:21:39 · update #1
if there were bolt ithink there were going horazontal
2006-07-26 23:25:19 · update #2
Light not only travels faster than sound but also longer. Thus it is possible that there is lightning without thunder. And I suppose that is what you saw. Where as the ring of clouds you saw was probably due to clouds expanding outwards due to the heat of the lightning.
2006-07-26 23:46:09 · answer #1 · answered by thesetup85 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well yesterday (wednesday) morning there was a thunder storm off the west coast of scotland, the lightening was way above the clouds and there was no thunder at all, (too far away to be heard) but the lightening was like I'd never seen before.If I didn't know any better I'd have said it was the ufo from independence day entering thru our atmosphere,, But I do know better and it wasn't so there you have it,, lightening it is.
2006-07-27 06:13:49 · answer #2 · answered by India 55 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a similar storm last night in south east England. The sky was flashing varies hues all around. I could not see any bolts as the cloud cover was total. Also it was eerie because I could not hear any of them. You may call me unimaginative but I just put it down to several separate storms quite a way off. Nice to sit out and watch.
2006-07-27 18:34:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was at work last night in the Peterborough area and there was a lot of lightening with no thunder around 12-40 am till around 1-30 am it was spectacular to watch .It was my dinner time so no i should not off been working before anyone asks.
2006-07-27 06:15:06 · answer #4 · answered by micky k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your ma was right... a full on electrical storm! If the lightening was far enough away you may not hear the thunder! I've driven through storms like it! They look awsome!
2006-07-27 06:22:18 · answer #5 · answered by Montage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds to me like you got to see the best of a heat lightening show. they happen all the time. just people don't get to see them because there is no thunder, to wake them up. heat lightening is a really beautiful event but that is all, its not aliens or anything else. you need to watch less fright time tv.
2006-07-27 06:17:05 · answer #6 · answered by dizzie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its possible to miss the sound of thunder - distance/wind direction etc could prevent the sound waves reaching your ears. But maybe you did see a ufo! Who's gonna prove you didn't!!
2006-07-27 06:22:42 · answer #7 · answered by Autumn Breeze 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a meteor shower last night. You may have seen that coupled with a bit of the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis).
2006-07-27 07:48:01 · answer #8 · answered by A Guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lightning its going on the past few nights with really quite thunder. Definatly
2006-07-27 07:11:23 · answer #9 · answered by Laura C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I saw a meteorite come down last night about 10 km from my house. That's as close as I can get.
2006-07-27 06:16:34 · answer #10 · answered by scott i 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋