Tropical thunderstorms are an amazing show of nature's forcefulness. Winters in Vancouver are filled with an extraordinary amount of rain, but I think we've only witnessed several lightning storms in over twenty years! By contrast, just one, short storm in SE Asia often provides quite a show!
I wasn't lucky enough to catch any lightning strikes. As I said today's storm was long as often the entire storm can come and go in the matter of a half hour. The canopies must have been set up in the rain because when we went out, after it had finally cleared up at 9:00 PM, the night market was pretty busy.
