Lightning - Lyn

In an old entry I wrote about the tropical rain in Ghana. Here in Ho they don't call it tropical rain though, they just call it rain. But as a person from Northern Europe it makes quit an impression the first time you experiencing it. One of the things that are much different from storms in Denmark, hard and cold as they may be, is the power of the lightening.

For a long time I have tried to snap a photo of such an lightening, but with no success. But two weeks ago in the middle of the dry season on a beach east of Elmina I got the picture. Since it is the dry season the rainfall was light (for westafrica) but the lightening was powerful enough.

I en gammel post skrev jeg om den tropiske regn i Ghana. Her i Ho kalder de dog ikke for tropisk regn, de kalder det regn. Men når man lige kommer fra Danmark giver det virkelig et indtryk, første gang du oplever sådan et uvejr. En af de ting, der er meget forskellig fra storme i Danmark, hårde og kolde som de kan være, er kraften af ​​lynene.

I lang tid har jeg forsøgt at tage et billede af et lyn, men uden held. Men for to uger siden, midt i tørtiden på en strand øst for Elmina fik jeg billedet. Da det er den tørtid var der kun let regn (for Vestafrika), men lynenes styrke var som altid stor.