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- Hobbyist photographer Ronny Apexety caught several hundred lightning strikes on camera in Kristiansand on the night of Monday.
- He has been trying to take such pictures for several years and was particularly pleased with two of the pictures.
- There was an unusual amount of lightning for April in Agder, but not unusual compared to summer thunderstorms.
- According to the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, lightning struck more than 600 times in Southern Norway within a few hours on Sunday evening and the night to Monday.
- Several households in Kristiansand briefly lost power on Sunday evening, but the lightning strikes did not cause any fires.
- The warm air that is on its way from the south can lead to temperatures in Agder reaching the 20s during the week.
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– There was much more lightning than I have experienced before. For several years I have tried to take such lightning photos from the garden room. It is not easy to get pictures of lightning, says Ronny Apexety to NRK.
On the night of Monday, he followed an app that showed the thunderstorm that was on its way into the Skagerrak to Kristiansand.
When it came, he was ready in the garden room in Vågsbygd and caught some real flashes of lightning.
He witnessed several hundred lightning strikes within half an hour.
The overview from the Meteorological Institute shows a high concentration of lightning around Kristiansand on Sunday evening.
Photo: met.no / NRK
Ronny Apexety took several hundred photos while the weather held, and was very happy with two of the photos.
– It was fun to make it happen. I have received a lot of likes for the photos on social media, he says.
LIGHT SHOW: Several hundred lightning bolts in the sky above Kristiansand. Ronny Apexity Johansson took this photo from Vågsbygd. The picture was taken with a shutter speed of 30 seconds, with an aperture of f5 and ISO 100.
Photo: Ronny Apexety Johansson / Ronny Apexety
Hot air on the way
There was the highest concentration of lightning just east of the center of Kristiansand.
– The thunderstorm came from the south from Denmark, it is a forewarning that warm air is on its way, says state meteorologist John Smiths.
One of many lightning strikes in Kristiansand on Sunday evening
Per-Kåre Sandbakk
He says it is unusual to have so much lightning in April in Agder.
– But compared to thunderstorms you can have in the middle of summer, this is not unusual. Then there can be several thousand lightning strikes in a short time, says Smiths.
According to an overview from the Meteorological Institute, there were over 600 lightning strikes in Southern Norway within a few hours on Sunday evening and the night to Monday.
The power in large parts of Kristiansand was gone for a moment when there was strong lightning.
Tom Nicolai Kolstad
Several households in Kristiansand briefly lost power on Sunday evening, writes The friend of the fatherland.
The lightning strikes did not cause any fires, according to the fire service.
The warm air that is on its way from the south can lead to temperatures in Agder reaching the 20s during the week, according to the state meteorologist.
Correction log: In an earlier version of this article, we published two images that were composited from multiple exposures. The images have been replaced with images that have not been assembled from multiple exposures.
Published 29/04/2024, at 09.08 Updated 29.04.2024, at 14.25