The DA 9.3 Lightning Gun's storm grenade can call in a storm in the grasslands biome, though. The storm sometimes spawns in the rain forest biome, but Rico can manually activate a storm on purpose upon capturing Meteolab and Zona Dos, or if you fire a storm grenade with the DA 9.3 Lightning Gun. The rain and darkness can moderately reduce visibility, although not as much as sandstorms or blizzards, and creates the rain-on-screen effect (see pictures and video below). Although lightning strikes pose a large threat to Rico, it can help the player in combat by quickly taking out enemy units (See "Manipulating and using lightning" section). The lightning is very powerful and can take out heavily armored targets with only one or two strikes. Lightning will strike all sorts of targets, as this weather phenomenon does not discriminate between Rico, civilians, Army of Chaos rebels, Black Hand soldiers, vehicles, animals and more. Lightning storms cause darkness and heavy rain, similar to night time, and lightning becomes common. Lightning, strong winds (that also result in turbulence) and low-visibility storms can greatly affect gameplay. The most notable examples of lightning storms before JC4 was JC2's Hantu Island's constant storm and JC3's Stingray's constant lightning strikes.Įverything changed as of Just Cause 4 where the player can experience extreme weather. In fact, the first trailer for JC1 even features thunder from a distant storm. Most games in the series have some distant storms with thunder and/or lightning. For information on a real thunderstorm, see the Wikipedia article (link above). This article is only about the in-game storms. More information about LDAR and "Bolts from the Blue" can be found here.Main article: Article about thunderstorms on Wikipedia. Breed Project Scientist at NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory.īolts from the Blue are obviously very dangerous to the general public as they can strike many miles away from the thunderstorm. Image courtesy of Dr Bill Rison of New Mexico Tech and Daniel W. Lightning and radar data for 11 July 2000 for a storm on the Colorado and Kansas border during the STEPS experiment. The second flash is similar to the the KSC data, but was collected from a storm which formed in NE Colorado during the STEPS experiment. The small white "x" marks the location of where the cloud to ground lightning flash hit the ground. This flash travelled about 6 kilometeres in clear air before hitting the ground. Note how the flash travels away from the radar reflectivity into clear air. This flash is overlayed on radar data which was collected near the time of the flash. The first image showed a bolt from the blue which occurred near the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The storm itself was located in northeastern Osceola county, about 35 kilometers to the west of Melbourne (Note: ~1.6 Kilometers = 1 Mile).īelow are two other examples of "Bolt from the Blue". At the time of the flash, the skies where mostly sunny at Melbourne. This flash struck very close to the National Weather Service office in Melbourne, Florida. Note how this flash travelled to the east 40 KILOMETERS (~25 miles) in less than 1 second, and then struck the ground! (note distance on horizontal axis in upper left box, time is upper right box). The colored dots above represent the lightning channel of a cloud to ground lighning flash which struck in east central Florida. (This 3D lightning detection system is called "LDAR" see below). The image below is a "bolt from the blue" detected by a lightning detection system which observes lightning in 3 dimensions. Special thanks to Robert Prentice and Al Moller for allowing me to use their photos.īolts from the Blue as seen by lightning detection devices This is why it is a good idea to wait 30 minutes or more after the rain ends before resuming outdoor activities. This is why it is still dangerous to be outside when thunderstorms are in the region, the lightning can, and does, strike many miles away from the thunderstorm cloud itself. "Bolt from the Blue" lightning flashes are a very dangerous type of cloud to ground lightning flash, as they "appear" to come out of the clear sky. These lightning flashes have been documented to travel more than 25 miles away from the thunderstorm cloud (see the "LDAR" discussion below). A "Bolt from the Blue" is a cloud to ground lightning flash which typically comes out of the back side of the thunderstorm cloud, travels a relatively large distance in clear air away from the storm cloud, and then angles down and strikes the ground. The photos below are classic examples of 'Bolts from the Blue". One of the most dangerous types of cloud to ground lightning
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