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| Above, the Skytree on a lightning-free night in February. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Ten years ago, while a group of us were in Japan on a tour, someone asked if it were true that there's no lightning storms in Japan. This gave us a good laugh as there's electrical storms everywhere, just some places get them more often than others. A day or so after that question was asked, we were in Kyoto and there was a nasty electrical storm outside (I even have it on video). So that question was definitely put to rest.
Rocket News 24 posted an article on an electrical storm in Tokyo in which a Twitter poster managed to capture lightning striking the Tokyo Skytree.
They begin the article with:
At 634 meters (2,080 ft), Tokyo Skytree is not only the tallest building in Japan, but also the tallest broadcasting tower in the world and second only to the Burj Khalifa in tallest structures. With all that height and no small amount of metal, a building is bound to get some serious love from lightning strikes, but catching that moment on film is easier said than done as a strike usually lasts between 1-2 microseconds.
This week, Twitter user @KAGAYA_11949 managed to get a great shot nonetheless.A sequence of photographs shows the progress (if that's the right word) of the lightning strike on the Skytree.
To see the photos, go here.
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