Feels like we're in Cairns

Another storm forecast for today and had some rain and bit of thunder earlier.... then about 30 mins ago the lightning started. So like any sad, photographic lunatic I'm grabbing my camera and tripod (sorely under used lately) to head outside and try and capture some lightning shots.

It was mostly sheet lightning in the clouds, so really just lit up the area making the 9.30 dark look like early evening nearly (with the help of some long exposure times)

Then the rain started to come over so I headed inside....and not a moment too soon as it erupted like a classic  "Cairns tropical storm" - you were wondering where the title was from....go on admit it!

Massive winds and LOTS of rain, very cool, because I'm indoors in the dry of course. Tried to get a shot of the rain coming off the covered roof (with the help of the green garden light). But as you can see, should have used the tripod again, but it's the affect we're after.

If you really want get a sense of it you can check out my "video" on my youtube channel. Which is in reality only audio as it was too dark, but is some classic phil rambling to amuse you....