Day 180 Thursday 25th September 2014. Rainbows and Lightning.
No astronomy today as storms hit. Torrential rain and later on a bright rainbow with a secondary arc visible from my observatory.
The best was to come later in the evening with a replay of the Martian invasion in War of the Worlds. The storm was uncannily similar to the storm viewed from Tom Cruise's back garden! It went on for over an hour - at least! The video lasts for almost 4 minutes. I am not sure whether that first lightning flash looks more like a nuclear explosion or a Martian tripod!
Stills taken from the video