What is the blue light?

Question

i was outside in em garden today about 9.30pm and it is so hot in the uk anyways as i was playing footie in my garden i happen to see a flashing blue light just like lightning but it hasn't rained or anything so far could it actually be lightning or is it something else

Answer 1

The flashing blue light was lightning - a distant storm - lightning frequently occures without rain, but most often rain does fall, in particular during a lighting [electric] storm.

Lightning strike up close

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=kLJ6oqToKr...

If caught out in the open during an electric storm, do not shelter under a tree.

Also, do not, under any circumstances fly a kite attached to a copper wire in an electric storm.

"Dear Diary, Lightning is apparently quite harmless, or at least, this has been my experience having flown a kite attached to a copper cable during the most aweful electric storm ever recorded by man".

Yours &etc., Ben Franklin.

Answer 2

It's either lightning or K-Mart has just moved to the UK and there is a special in aisle 9.

Answer 3

Yeah it's lightening you don't have to have rain for there to be thunder and lightening, we're expecting it too!!

Answer 4

Maybe your football went through a neighbours window while you were blinded by the sun and they phoned the police?  Just a thought.  :)

*SL