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Awesome Lightning Photos, Videos from Pennsylvania

By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist

Published Mar 31, 2012 9:44 AM EDT | Updated Mar 31, 2012 1:25 PM EDT

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Pennsylvania was lucky enough to get some decent lightning (for late March!) last night and some of the Pennsylvania Storm Chasers on Facebook scored some excellent pics & video. The highlight was this video by Edward Ramolt, where he caught lightning striking a couple hundred feet away on his iPod in Pittsburgh (click to play):

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

Ron Shawley also got some great shots from Chickaree Mountain up above Johnstown:

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He also got several shots of "ground-to-cloud" lightning (upwards striking) from the local power plant:

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I was barely awake for the 9:30 storms, which popped up suddenly, so all I got was this quick video of a cloud-to-cloud strike (with birds - that's a new one), which is slowed down to 1/4 speed here:

http://www.facebook.com/v/3316741072836

All told, about 8.700 lightning strikes hit the ground in and around the state yesterday evening:

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All quite impressive considering that storms were forming while temperatures were in the 40s (midnight temps shown)!

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