Madison WI 4" hail maker (Lightning)

Between the city of Madison, the 60mph forward movement, and the reports of baseball sized hail, I couldnt, and really didnt want to get too close to this storm, so I photographed it from a distance. these were taken while it was over Madison. Taken between 9:35 and 9:45 PM. Looking southeast from the Black earth area.

 

They are absolutely incredible. I love the 5th one. I would like to see them with a gap between each picture too because they tend to merge into one at the moment, at least on my monitor! :roll: They look great merged together but I'd like to see them separately too! I also can't quite decide whether I'd clone out the tiny light spots.

Anyway, I love them :mrgreen:

 

beautiful pictures! I love them all!

 

Great shots

 

cool shots, i'm loving your weather photos...

what causes the difference in colors from left to right... ? it is most evident in #5, purply on the left, gray on the right...?

 

Amazing... I was out yesterday in that and so wanted to get pics of the lightning, but was too busy trying to find some safe place to park my car. (*grumble*)
You really captured it extremely well!

 

Great shots, as always! The boyfriend was trying to capture lightning yesterday...he got one sorta decent shot, but we also didn't have a good place to shoot from (my apartment window in the middle of town)...I'm gonna have to show him your shots.

 

Amazing images. The first one rocks.!!!

 

awsome shots

 

Only thing I can think of is the left cell was over the city of madison, and the other was a few miles outside of it, so the redish colors are street lights reflecting off the clouds. As the second storm moves left, it to becomes redish.

 

Woah, awsome pics. The first one is just :shock: