Great Balls of Fire!

[AndrewB]

Thunderstorm over Kefalonia this morning. As well as the usual lightning, three times I watched a brilliant streak like a giant meteor shoot horizontally across the sky from out of the storm center, well beneath the clouds.

Fireballs? Are they real?

 

[Carmel2]

We are just around the corner from you in Vathi. No fire balls! but lightning and gusts of 44 knt's and rain so hard you couldn't see through it, mind you it was clean so nice boat without much effort, I think we are in for a bit more this afternoon.

 

[Davy_S]

I was was pushing the zzzzz out and it woke me up at daft o clock! Nice and sunny now though.

 

[macd]

Ball lightning?

 

[duncan99210]

No wind but lots of rain and thunder on Kastos. Lovely sunshine now.

 

[RobbieW]

We are just around the corner from you in Vathi. No fire balls! but lightning and gusts of 44 knt's and rain so hard you couldn't see through it, mind you it was clean so nice boat without much effort, I think we are in for a bit more this afternoon.

We only recorded 38 kts! Come over for a beer, Spring Dawn - the Rival with the monitor on the back

 

[vyv_cox]

We crossed from Korfos to Agkistri, arriving about an hour ago. Wind about F6 from NW. Skies were clear when we left, now almost 100% cloud cover and Navtex warns of thunderstorm, so looks like it is heading this way. Harbourmaster says wind will be from SE later.

 

[Carmel2]

We only recorded 38 kts! Come over for a beer, Spring Dawn - the Rival with the monitor on the back

Are you around tomorrow? we are behind you to the port side.............not the bloody Bav that I expect has dumped his chain or tooth pick by the look of it on mine this morning.

 

[Tony Cross]

Lots of rain and thunder in Sivota. No power earlier this morning either. You should have seen the kids off the flots unable to use their iPhones. Priceless!

 

[alexsailor]

Porto Cheli- rain and clouds.

 

[Davy_S]

Torrential rain, bad vis, strong winds, now hitting the West of Kefalonia and heading East, keep your heads down!

 

[Davy_S]

Lightning now, computer getting switched off!

 

[Cardo]

We're down in Kato Katelios. Had some rain this morning, with associated thunder. Bit of a shower about an hour ago, but that's been it.

What we did have, especially yesterday, was wind. Lots of wind. Getting into this little harbour, with waves and F5/6 wind, with the rocks all around the entrance was interesting, to say the least!

 

[Davy_S]

What we did have, especially yesterday, was wind. Lots of wind. Getting into this little harbour, with waves and F5/6 wind, with the rocks all around the entrance was interesting, to say the least!

It is not the best of places to enter, at least the new harbour is open, not been down there since last year, I am based further North, near Myrtos beach, its stopped raining here!

 

[AndrewB]

We're down in Kato Katelios. Had some rain this morning, with associated thunder. Bit of a shower about an hour ago, but that's been it.

What we did have, especially yesterday, was wind. Lots of wind. Getting into this little harbour, with waves and F5/6 wind, with the rocks all around the entrance was interesting, to say the least!

Passed Katelios day before yesterday, but with a strongish SW it didn't look at all comfortable, so we carried on.

 

[Cardo]

Passed Katelios day before yesterday, but with a strongish SW it didn't look at all comfortable, so we carried on.

Both the harbour and bay are surprisingly flat, once you're tucked in. The bay itself has a deeper area surrounded by shallow patches, so any waves crash on the shallow patches, leaving the deeper area reasonably flat. You just need to go close enough to the beach to benefit. The harbour, once you're in, has just over 2m depths by the "quay". The harbour is actually very well protected and when we arrived was completely flat, which was a welcome change to the 3-4ft choppy waves we had on the way in. Only problem with the harbour is it's tiny, with not many spots available. We rafted up against a 38 footer that's been parked up and left. Though a 26 footer did arrive and take the space of a ferry that left. They then had a 40 footer raft up against them.

 

[nigelmercier]

I thought this thread was going to be related to my recent experience with insect repellant.

 

[BobnLesley]

It's clearly a big storm, as we've been getting some of the thunder, lightning and gusty winds here too and we're in Greenwich Bay, Rhode Island.

 

[Etesian]

We were on the island of Elba at the end of June, and there was a lightning storm that I had never seen before. The cloud looked more like it was totally electrically charged with lightning that NEVER stopped. It was continual for about 20 minutes and just around the cloud, never striking down. Kind of like those balls where the electricity is shooting out all around it and when you touch it your hair stands up on end. Strange. Is this a usual phenomena that I have just missed?

 

[Cardo]

We were on the island of Elba at the end of June, and there was a lightning storm that I had never seen before. The cloud looked more like it was totally electrically charged with lightning that NEVER stopped. It was continual for about 20 minutes and just around the cloud, never striking down. Kind of like those balls where the electricity is shooting out all around it and when you touch it your hair stands up on end. Strange. Is this a usual phenomena that I have just missed?

In Sardinia last year, we saw a large ball of electrical storm from a distance, and then were engulfed by one a couple of days later. In the middle of the night, the wind suddenly picked up, rain started blatting down and we were nearly-constantly surrounded by lightning. But no thunder. It was quite impressive. Went on for around a couple of hours.