June 17th, 2009
Minneapolis Airport
Lightning storm.

Spent 4hours forecasting the severe weather just for fun this morning and realized it was going to be a big day in Minnesota.  Worse thing was though, I had to work 3pm-11pm.  Sucked to not be out there chasing today, but got a little treat in the end.  At 10pm things really started to pick up with towering cumulus to the SE of the airport.  Eventually this became a storm and I reported a new towering cumulus to the S, then this became a storm.  Eventually got dark and a line kept redeveloping just south of the Twin Cities.  The lightning was nonstop and pretty amazing for the intensity of it.  On that note I should mention I did not see one cloud to ground bolt the whole time.

Enjoy!