Summer 2011 in Belgium turned out to be rather active concerning thundery outbreaks with half a dozen significant cases: see weather reports. Three of them were mainly during the night and the scenery of Brussels Airport has my preference to do some experiments with the camera. Of course a bit luck is needed to catch some near-by discharges. In this slightly overexposed shot, a lightning strike seems to hit a building at the far end of the airport. Investigation via the SAFIR system gave no evidence with at that time the closest impact detected at 9 km (resolution of +/- 2 km) from the cams point of view, namely somewhere over Laken (Brussels). But a closer inspection of the picture in full resolution showed that the impact was much closer, something that the first glimpse of this shot would also suggest.

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