Lightning storm Darwin rural area 17 Feb 2015

Love this commentary of how you're describing this storm and everything that is unfolding inside of it!

I live in the high desert where we get a lot isolated thunderstorms like this where you can get a nice clear view of the updraft, but I can count on one hand the number I have seen that are in the same league as this one. This storm is spectacular in the true sense of the word.

Hello from the UK. This video is amazing, thank you for sharing and I love your commentary too :)

I'm scared of thunderstorms, but this video is so wonderful!

No less than magic. Good to see that Stormscapes Darwin is still active. Cheers!

Thank you so much for mentioning that lightning trigger. I'm totally blind, so I wouldn't have known what it was unless someone mentioned it, and you did! And yes, I'm typing this and hearing everything I type and can read the comments using screen-reading software that speaks it all to me. II love severe thunderstorms, especially the ones with lots of positive lightning strikes and CGs. When it's recorded in binaural or true stereo, that's what I love! Keep up the great work.

The glow from the sunset on the right certainly added a lot of drama to this view, in the early part of the video.

Everything on this video is beautiful. The comment, the sunset, the cloads and the lightning. And sometimes i saw the lightning from the thunderstorm on the left side too. Only missing deep dark booming thunder but it's nbeautiful too watch this.

Great storm. I once got caught up in a thundersnow storm here in UK about ten years ago. It approached as a long wall of very tall pink and white cumulonimbus. Started as heavy rain, temp 7 degrees Celsius. Within a few minutes, temperature had plunged, rain turned to sleet then snow. Bright blue lightning similar to power cable flashes, but very little thunder and it was oddly muted too. The snow storm became very heavy with whiteout conditions after about 30 minutes. The storm lasted about an hour by which time the temp had fallen to minus 3 Celsius. The thundersnow storm was one of many reported that day along a very active cold front which had polar air racing in behind it and was running into relatively mild air, hence the storms it created.

Look at that structure! Pure beauty as the mesocyclone has no precipitation at the base so you can see all its glory! I wouldnt be surprised if there was a tornado forming at the bottom.

Very scary, but very beautiful. Those clouds are amazing. I love a good thunderstorm.

What a stunning storm. This sunset and the lightning. WOW. Darwin knows how to put on a good show.

Lucky bastards! seriously, this is one of the most cool looking video I've seen in a while

Hey mate I have watched this video a couple of times just love the structure and tbe activity of this storm.

very very nice! must have been a really amazing to see in person.. thanks for sharing!

I thought these storms looking like these look cinematic. I was wrong. This thunderstorm is Spectacular.

Just stunning - nature at it's best for me. Great video and top quality

NASA has even come here a few years back to study our lightning. Apparently our lightning has the highest voltage of any lightning in the world, even more than tornado lightning, and it is the only lightning that can be seen with the naked eye from outer space. We also hold the record for the most lightning strikes within an hour apparently. I think it was 90 something thousand strikes within an hour or something like that. I remember the local news station talking about it the next day after that particular severe storm. Back in the 90s that was. I still remember all the lightning that night. Multiple strikes at a time. The sky was constantly lit up that night. The amount of energy that that storm had was amazing.

thank you all.

Awesome footage bro !!  Just amazing.  Reminds me of Close Encounters Movie when at the end the UFO's were all coming at once.  Too cool !!  Thank you for posting