Close Florida Lightning Strikes Compilation (Extended Edition: 130 Strikes!)

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4 years of living in FL left me with a huge collection of crazy thunderstorm videos, so I decided to clip out the best close ones. All of these were taken in East Central Florida, mostly at Florida Tech in Melbourne and my parent's house in Sebastian between 2016 and 2021.

[@vaclavbastl500]

17:47 even with the delay the sound is insane. Just imagine if this positive CG hit anywhere near you.

[@indescribable3454]

17:54 sounds like suspenseful drumming lol

[@DJ-gy5pc]

At the 39th one

[@leonidas941]

4:07 look at the lightning stream sail in the wind. That's awesome.

[@JasonChiappaStorms]

Also seen at 1:25, 6:59, 9:22, and 12:22

[@iilora]

Ikr at my state

[@user-xp4ib3qu4w]

0:30 wow that sounds good

[@pawfan]

Awesome collection! The last one...A positive discharge created the longest shockwave I have ever heard to date!

[@abbyalexander209]

Jesus that sounded like drums

[@carlosjorgegomes2403]

This last one is clearly a very powerful positive CG lightning, what a bomb! Great capture Jason.

[@user-lj2gw8jn8i]

linghtning

[@Flamboyant-randomist]

​​@@user-lj2gw8jn8iIf you're going to try & correct grammar, make sure you can spell first otherwise you just look an idiot. 🙄

[@TitanRailer6]

17:47 How to easily tell the bolt is a positive: Look at how smooth the channel is.

[@aliultimate009]

It's official. The best loud thunderstorm compilation on KZbin. I've been making and checking thunderstorm videos for 10 years and this one is very exceptionally magnificent 👍

[@forme6624]

10 years my dude 10 YEARS

[@Shamkhin]

100% agreed

[@fairweathertrains3029]

Absolutely right mate

[@DavidOConnellvTnY1991]

I’ve seen enough crazy thunderstorms in my time living in New York and Vermont. But it’d be my dream to see a Florida thunderstorm. These bad boys never disappoint!!! Amazing video, Jason!!! My Subwoofer was loving this!!!

[@Scriptos_7]

New York has lots of rain,it flooded before there

[@cotysalisbury861]

I've been in one back in 2011 let's just say it was a disappointment little thunder and lightning but a waterspout😂

[@byronake1957]

This is one of the best lightning compilations I've seen. Excellent editing, and that positive bolt at the end was amazing.

[@DJ-gy5pc]

17:54 doom !!!

[@SukhES]

I heared this before...

[@user-qp8xc9ym5u]

うるさいだまらんか、

[@courtneythill1362]

I was only in Florida for one week. My first time there. I swear, every afternoon there’d be an awesome thunderstorm. I miss it!

[@khaledkhalidmadani201]

Awesome action, beautiful footage, and spooky thunder

[@shi3901]

i like the sound

[@ptnsmuls9393]

0:29 Woah that was big 😯

[@BrooklynBronxQueensStaten]

17:54 sounds like thunder from a positive strike.

[@tehyeni177]

Before 45 km/h winds

[@Mejmet]

Smooth channel lightning probably

[@TitanRailer6]

@@Mejmet You are correct. The shockwave/clap from a high amped Positive sounds exactly like that. I’d say this one struck no more than 1/2 mile away.

[@shawndye7751]

I don't blame the dog on that last one. I would have been scared out of my skin from that one. Yikes!

[@fairweathertrains3029]

I’d love to see more compilation videos of yours mate they are so impressive and the quality of your footage and sound is phenomenal. Thank you 🙏

[@lloydbellis7360]

Best storm sequence I have seen in a long time, saved the best till last. Epic. Thank you

[@kridadounsattapong1533]

Strike and delivery to Mars

[@fairweathertrains3029]

I would've had 3 kittens after that last one. Jeeez

[@luiselapostolfeliz2421]

The last Thunder was EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!🖤🖤💮💮🖤💜

[@idrismustafaidrismustafa9032]

@@luiselapostolfeliz2421 ххххххххххх

[@arpwcos2011]

@@idrismustafaidrismustafa9032 toddler.

[@insanestorms5176]

17:54 sounds like a sonic boom from a plane

[@shawndye7751]

Like this video! Crazy lightning strikes

[@weirdchannel4428]

1:50 =D !!!!

[@weirdchannel4428]

what an amazing sound that was

[@chrisg7236]

First of all, great lightning clips! Then come the flash backs to evenings spent sitting in an open bus stop waiting for the SLOW Disney bus. Being on the verge of peein' the pants from fear, and hoping you make it to see another day. Right on! LOL🤣

[@robs2474]

Outstanding compilation, Florida definitely has the BEST thunder! The thing is though Jason, when your alert beeps once it's followed by WW3, whereas in the UK all you get is the equivalent of a sheep clearing its throat on a distant hillside....really not fair!

[@joshs4594]

That last positive bolt was just over a mile away and originated roughly 47,000 feet up or at an angle. Spectacular catch. Nature. Best fireworks on Earth. ⚡️

[@blitzroehre1807]

Thanks Jason, huge thumbs up!!

[@ksnapper]

Hey Jason, I thank you for making me very homesick! I've been away from my home in the Melbourne/Palm Bay/Port Malabar area for 7 years now, and of all places, the coastal areas of Southern California!!! So, Ultimately boring!! I fully recognize what you have recorded on the couple video's I watched and I know what you adrenaline must have been doing to you. I moved to Clermont to Orlando, to Poinciana-Kissinger to Brevard County Titusville, Rockledge, Palm Bay, Melbourne and West Melbourne, Port Malabar, Indiatlantic, EauGalle Jupiter, Sebastian Inlet area on the beach side, Lakeland and Daytona for a while. All these locals I lived in spanned over 33 years of wonderful times most of the times. Never a dull moment with the weather, until winter season came along and then those "dry-months" took forever to get back into the first to third week of MAY and then it was explosive times again and boy are they EXPLOSIVE. I'd love to donate you a couple of my microphones that can generally handle the explosive concussion shock waves that are produced with the "high-octane" beefy lightning bolts that are supercharged and really vibrate everything inside and outside of your body! I always tried to get at ground zero, as it pertained to the lightning striking zone and would try to move along with it in a vehicle, but when I could get out and fully immerse myself underneath a highly electrified cumulonimbus cloud that i was trembling, all over my body. Because I knew how deadly serious certain things and places and areas I was in were, when mother nature let loose You have some tremendous sampling of a lot of unique and different thundering sounds. I really like that one that struck most likely towards the winding down period of the storm and was not one of the extremely overhead type close discharges. Rather the one I believe you ended two of the videos I was immediately absorbing int to ... I always called them anvil strikes, or pure ice crystal strikes, or out of the blue strikes, I just heard it again as the video is ending and your dog is barking and the thunder has bursting bubble like compression waves that burst like the sounds sometimes coming out of old pure jet engines and /or the Space Shuttle or other very large rock launches from the Cape. I picture in my head the compression or shock wave that was produced by a highly charged electrical discharge which produced a very large in diameter lightning bolt, maybe about the size of a football players lower leg, or the thigh and maybe 10 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. It reverberates and boom-boom-BOOM and just keeps popping and booming for somethings 30 to 45seconds and that a long azz thunder-blast. Coming originally from the California area with earthquakes, I moved to Florida just for the electrical daily summertime thunderstorms ONLY, back in 1987, February 14 Valentines Day is when I arrived on I-4 and passed right through the Orlando Downtown area and didn't even know it was Orlando, being use to the Los Angeles and Orange Counties in metropolisvkzbin.info/www/bejne/fXe5lqmcbbh3qMWdlle Cali. Seekzbin.info/www/bejne/fXe5lqmcbbh3qMWhd like it took forever to get from February to May of 1987 and web the atmosphere "turned-on" electrically. OMG!!! Was I in heaven it was mind boggling and I had studied atmospheric sciences at UCLA and got my degree in limescale phenomena. But that was 99% text book qualities, which was very helpful, but the real life adventures always grossly exceed any text book set up. Digital equipment like cameras microphones, cell phones, pc's and lightning detection "beeping" devices just were not available back then. But once there were in m homes in Florida, I would always disconnect the plugs every day when I went to work, because of the brown outs and other electrical "glitches" that could and would take place every day there in Melbourne in the summer. In fact, I went to FIT for 3 years, 1988 through 1992 for atmospheric sciences and being a pilot. I like how your home seems to be right beside, or actually underneath a high intensity power line grid system!!! Perfect icing on the cake for you or someone that loves lightning! A large amount of lightning is attracted to the wires and the actual structures that hold the power-line in place. Seemed like you are at ground zero almost with every storm that blows over your home. I even heard the electrical sizzling of the actual electricity or plasma of a dozen or so trikes you have. the Bzzzzz or more like an electrical grounding sounds in a way, a very deep subsonic rumbling zzzzzz . I could ramble on and on and on, but I will not, that would be rude and I may already be violating that now too with my excitement and length of my communication with you right now. Just be very, very careful , it just takes one shocking experienced i know you know and I will not any anymore to that, I'm NOT one who has a leg to stand on to say anything about lightning. Closest I've been to a discharge is 9 feet away, at Bab cock and Eber Road, in an apartment complex I lived in right to the north side of a Walmart store. I was out watching the the early morning tstorms roll in just at sunrise or soon thereafter, with an easterly onshore moist flow. I was in a lightning stance with feet together as one spot on the earth and I was not touching anything else so I was properly grounded to one spot on earth and no hair or anything was touching a wall or anything else except the atmospheric gases. It was a moderate popping lightning storm, slightly more powerful than the norm. As the gust-front blew through and the associated down pour with its apparently downdrafts and I was looking across the small 20 feet distance of the parking lot right in front of my Eber apartment porch at the backside of an Animal Hospital between me and the actual Bab cock street which had a lot of healthy, but young Pinion Pine Trees, when suddenly the discharge channel connected with the ground by using the tallest youthful thigh of a pine tree. The bright intense white flash of the lightning was brilliantly white with a slight purplish tenting to the blinding white first strike brilliantly white and blinding for a few moments. Instantaneously, the tree had all its bark blasted off it's trunk and then the tree splintered in two and crumbled into many dozen pieces of the once living human inside. the blasted off bark pieces was really beautiful and it looked like small snow flakes flowing down within the downdraft of the storm. The thunder was not the thunder I had always before heard and it was mainly felt in my abdominal area and the thunder head an extremely subsonic component to it Being 10 feet away from the strikes ground zero the thunder literally blew my clothing and everything at the exact same time, like a very strong blasting gust of wind. and at the same time a felt and heard the ultra subsonic bass rumbling and heard it echo off walls as it passed me with a more normal sounding thunder. When they strike right above you and are immeidately grounded or hits a lightning rod, all you hear is the electrical sizzling sound and it's somewhat quiet compared to the rest of the thunderous loud potential. I heard about 5 strikes over your screened in patio that produced everything I just mentioned barbecue it to was at ground zero often. I will end this now, it's too long, but I've noticed myself and became very homesick for Florida after watching 2 of your ideas. I do time lapses lately as my full time lobby, but weather has always been my fascination always from the very beig9nning of my life here on Earth.If you every need assistance with the proper benefits of cleaning up and enhancing the audio of your recorded storms, please let me know and I'd be honored to help you. I always have my rviile Take care, be safe and maybe sometime in the not too distant future ... we can meet up. Good world and I like your sound very much. Sleep well and goodnight If you are ever in Huntington Beach, or Sugarloaf, Big Bear Lake California, please let me mkzbin.info/www/bejne/fXe5lqmcbbh3qMWr and stop by. My name s Kory and I'm glad to meet you . Talk to you again possibly a bot later.

[@leohu1566]

Lightning is amazing, i love it... Even the sound is majestic

[@kjromich2047]

Reminds me of when we had this one storm and it was already scary enough. But it had stopped raining for a few minutes for the brightest lightning bolt I have ever seen to hit the ground.. it was purple as well. I have no idea how close it was to the trailer. But it was bright enough for me to have read a book in the dark

[@emmaisback_q5050]

Scary!!

[@kjromich2047]

@@emmaisback_q5050 indeed. And we recently had a tornado that ripped through the northern part of my town. Destroyed our polka grounds and many trees and even powerlines. It's been five years since the last one came through.

[@pawfan]

How did the thunder from it?

[@kjromich2047]

@@pawfan it didn't thunder. It made the loudest BOOM that's ever possible

[@MrEvanston]

Jaason: Thanks for this awesome video; The best, this year, I have seen!!

[@Tstorms]

17:46 could be a bipolar flash! Its got that smooth branchless channel of a positive CG but flickered like a negative

[@karlzimmer444]

FLASH, CRASH AND BANG!! You see the flash of lightning and then hear the crash and bang of thunder!

[@jaxsonmeyers440]

That one strike scared the crap out of me

[@burkaykay]

00:30 is my favorite. Kuala Lumpur is also very thunderous place like Florida.

[@S.v3493]

6:35 you can hear an electric shock

[@StormyBoi]

That little crack you hear is the light radiation effecting the camera's circuitry, a sort of emp blast if you will.

[@theluckydeer899]

0:01final objective: kill the last person. “This is gonna be easy” *lag spikes* *chuckles… heh am in danger*

[@boopshanaa]

Putting this into perspective: think about how loud the very last one was, and how relatively short of a distance that sound actually travels. Now, think about how loud the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcano had to’ve been to hear it on the doorstep of a home in Alaska.. I fucking love this planet.

[@tiffanydame7172]

Beautiful😳

[@thatoneguy9842]

Couldnt imagine how loud that last one sounded for anyone within 100 feet of the strike

[@Kokomi_Lover]

The after effect sounds so satisfying

[@karaokebackgroundplaylists9878]

1:53 that explosion of thunder

[@johnnytheking4521]

1:50 wow that's pretty strong thunder

[@kridadounsattapong1533]

Rite black hole for you all NATO otan

[@Midnight24435]

What camera and microphone do you use? It's superb.

[@darrenrobson1562]

that last one sound like a bomb went off

[@esrayilmaz3247]

I have seen FL thunderstorms many times over the years. They don't stay over one area, they just produce some lightning and a small downpour and then after like 20 minutes, it's done and the sun is back out.

[@TitanRailer6]

Gotta love the one at 1:36!! That’s a classic high amped negative with some probable downward branching. The sharp tearing crack right before the shockwave makes me wanna say this one struck less than a mile.

[@thatelephant]

Love the loud-ass thunder, tell you what.

[@antonioflowers056]

Nah, the lightning at 1:50 is the scariest one and the sound of the thunder clapping at 16:30~16:55 is the craziest to me.

[@aliultimate009]

at 2:22 let me guess - you have a lightning detector which was sounding the alarm beep and that brand is Strike Alert right ? 😋 Edit: I don't know why i wrote Strike Alert when in fact it was Acurite brand 😂 The worst part is that i own it 😂

[@sabrinaaubret2732]

Oh my God 😱 ! It's unbelievable, terrifying but so beautiful 🥰! I would love going to USA and seeing those storms and lightning 😍! In my town (in France), we don't have bigs storms like you and it's not cool 😅! Sorry if I make mistakes but I didn't write in english since 25 years now, so without a translator it's difficult 😏!! PS : how many Times did you take for doing this compilation (days, months, years) ?? A+ ❤️

[@elithunder]

Insanely Awesome!!!!!!😲😍

[@abdullahusman5298]

Omg so much lighting!..

[@traceysmythe334]

Lightning is spectacular wow 😍

[@esrayilmaz3247]

First, it is a partly cloudy sky, then one cloud begins towering into the sky and you see a downpour, and you see some lightning. These are hit- or miss in nature, but quite intense and you will get a soaking if you get hit by one, but it leaves very quickly. These storms usually happen in the afternoon, being caused by the sea- breeze as they push inland, somewhat like the Everglades, so I know what they are like. One time I drove through one and the wipers we're useless, but I was only in it for around 15-20 minutes and the sun was right there. When it rained in Florida, a lot of the time, I still saw the blue sky and some part of the sky, I did not when it was raining, so they are really fascinating.

[@Traindrainbusmowerfan]

That thunder at 6:59 shook the house

[@traceysmythe334]

Awesome

[@215_Philly_4for4]

0:28 actually got me good I had to change my shorts

[@weathergamer4676]

nice video

[@luiselapostolfeliz2421]

Yeah! Yeah! Get'em, Get'em! I hove your wonderfully electrifying video I think it's a sweet lightning video. Woo-hoo-hoo!

[@tonycarteruk]

1:51! Wow!

[@patcola7335]

Must be the flat land in Florida because even the small lightning flashings sound very loud.

[@LilDeondreOrlando]

1:37 damn

[@AntonyClayton-eq1ul]

Thanks for bringing us the wonderful light shows of nature. Very struck by your efforts. Hope you you arn't... ⚡👏👏👏💯

[@skull4174]

The second thunder is like thunders in movies

[@jankuklewicz3248]

😮woow power sky sky lighting strike power

[@SpeedBird6780]

17:48 - Listen to how long the thunder from the positive strike lasts.

[@luiselapostolfeliz2421]

That's what happens when Thor visits Florida.

[@karaokebackgroundplaylists9878]

0:30 that was super close

[@Cubano42]

Fun fact: if you see lightning and think its close count how many seconds until you here the sound, More then 5 seconds would be far

[@damienadamek678]

5 would be a mile

[@andrerosenberg2627]

Here in Northern Germany the "Thunderstorms" are very boring.

[@YooooooooThe1st]

The colossal titan

[@lcfishing859]

When people take vacation in Florida they don’t realize that it rains every afternoon and it’s hilarious seeing people run away from the beach lol

[@canaldojoaovitorgames2061]

good vídeo

[@michelledomingo5138]

Wow that's a loud lighting

[@youngglitchy_machine2673]

literally thunder for us: *house vibrates*

[@dravakian]

Is this kind of lightning output normal for a storm in Florida?

[@milankanka5329]

Ahoj Jason 😇😇😇😇, veľmi prekrásne video 😇😇😇, aj zábery . Srdečne pozdravujem zo Slovenska 🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰🇸🇰. Len tak ďalej .

[@dianefarley37]

You get some real baddies in Florida. Yikes!

[@moaaweyaalkurdi755]

❤❤

[@wigsnatcher101]

When I had a trip to Florida it was raining so hard

[@Housephonestimes4]

Lurch's music!

[@AhtungBUGULMArespublikaTatarst]

Очень много работы в сфере демонтажа многоквартирных домов в городе Бугульма и бугульминском районе республики Татарстана (прибыли гребет пао "татнефть", господствующая высота - над уровнем моря 380 метров над уровнем моря - никогда не было затоплений от дождя как например в Гомельской области Беларусии в мае 2022 года затопило Гомельскую область республики Беларусь, очень много жилья и дёшево стоят квартиры в городе Бугульма и бугульминском районе республики Татарстана)

[@jaymorgenthal9479]

Absolutely nothing like South Florida in July if you want ear-splitting thunder

[@arunraghuwanshi5075]

Which litining soot your

[@ZachariahMarte2024]

2:21 2:22 2:23 16:29 16:30 16:31 16:32 16:33

[@Pain-pl2zg]

Actually kakashi was practicing chidori

[@jensfranck1112]

Chemtrails do it

[@sahajguragayan1912]

Here we can easily notice and know about how much faster is light than sound. The lightning occurs 5 to 6 seconds before the sound comes……

[@HarshatIsCool]

T-that’s weirdest lightning ever

[@dianefarley37]

Are all Florida lightning strikes positive? They seem to be.

[@veydranadive9014]

Why is the audio lagging behind?

[@traceysmythe334]

I wouldn't like to be walking over an open field in that no way

[@JoseGarcia-qo3cw]

17:31 SPIDER LIGHTING

[@joepadilla8802]

I am scared of the thunder and lighting what shall I do you guy's give me some advice thank you

[@user-up3gt6ye9g]

Lighting strikes can crash everything

[@ravgn]

This is the Scariest one 1:50

[@streetsveterans]

The sound of the thunder could be better to with a best microphone

[@hayley339]

What did Florida bloody do to have that type of thunder

[@herbertwrighteiyou240]

AHHHH😵

[@AK-jdi]

Man i love these neighbourhoods...not a sight to see in india

[@iilora]

I live in Florida wow it’s bad there😳