{"id":383,"date":"2007-03-05T11:45:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-05T01:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2007-03-06T21:38:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T11:38:28","slug":"boom-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"BOOM, baby!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian meteorologists are now suggesting that the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/climate\/enso\/\">El Ni?o<\/a> cycle which has caused the worst drought in 100 years in Australia is at an end.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re sure not wrong! We&#8217;ve gotten more than 350mm of rain in the last month here in the Blue Mountains, often with ferocious lightning storms.<\/p>\n<p>Two bands of heavy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2007\/03\/05\/1172943283414.html\">thunderstorms moved through the Sydney area<\/a> last night alone.<\/p>\n<p>The views of city lights and approaching storms from our verandah which overlooks the Sydney basin can be spectacular, especially at night.<\/p>\n<p>This storm moved from south to north over Penrith at about 2:30am today. If it was going to wake me up, I figured I may as well get some pics!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_01_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"click for larger image\" title=\"click for larger image\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_01_c_tn.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Thick and black as a squid ink milkshake, glowing from within,<br \/>\nthe storm sneaks up on a sleeping Penrith at 2:30am<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_02_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"click for larger image\" title=\"click for larger image\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_02_c_tn.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen <em><strong>sssssKRAKKbbbBOOOM!!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_03_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"click for larger image\" title=\"click for larger image\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_03_c_tn.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The advancing deluge is led by massive, repeated bolts<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_04_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"click for larger image\" title=\"click for larger image\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_04_c_tn.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The city lights start to disappear behind the rainshaft<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_05_c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"click for larger image\" title=\"click for larger image\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/lightning_over_syd_shot_from_bluemts_200703050230_05_c_tn.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>The storm had to get a few more big licks in before moving out to sea <\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you have co-workers who live in western Sydney, go easy on them today. They either didn&#8217;t sleep much last night or their alarm clock may not have gone off on time!<\/p>\n<p>-weez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian meteorologists are now suggesting that the current El Ni?o cycle which has caused the worst drought in 100 years in Australia is at an end. They&#8217;re sure not wrong! We&#8217;ve gotten more than 350mm of rain in the last month here in the Blue Mountains, often with ferocious lightning storms. Two bands of heavy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}