Lightning Strike

So Wednesday morning around 4:30 am, there was a massive lightning strike with subsequent thunder.  It was extremely loud and shook the house.  Apparently people in Sydney thought it was a bomb or a plane crashed.  Per Sydney weather news, "There is a good chance that this morning's thunder was made louder than usual by a something called 'inversion lightning.' This rare but well-documented phenomenon causes sound from a cloud-to-ground lightning strike to be trapped near the ground instead of dissipating vertically into the sky.

A temperature inversion happens when cool air near the ground lies below a layer of warmer air. This creates an invisible boundary in the sky that separates two layers of air with different temperatures and densities. Sound produced near the ground bounces off this inversion boundary and can travel much further than it typically would."

 I was randomly awake during this time because my sleep cycle is still a little off.  Aram woke up to this and said it was probably the loudest thunder he has heard since he was at camp.  

I guess Sydney doesn't get a lot of thunder or lightning here.  Just lots of rain.