{"id":7767,"date":"2020-06-06T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-06T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/06\/lightning-strike-on-the-washington-monument\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:28:12","slug":"lightning-strike-on-the-washington-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/06\/lightning-strike-on-the-washington-monument\/","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Strike on the Washington Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WashMonumentLightningStrike.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"254\" data-original-width=\"562\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/WashMonumentLightningStrike.gif\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> <b>Here in the DC area, the monument is very frequently in view. I have been up to the observation deck. We were here for the earthquake that damaged the structure. On Thursday night someone made a good video of lightning hitting the monument. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>This particular storm was flashing through my window, and was visible during a Zoom class through the windows of persons elsewhere in the area. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>This lightning storm took out one of <a href=\"http:\/\/na5b.com:8901\/\">NA5B&#8217;s amazing Web SDR receivers<\/a>. I think it was only the LF receiver. I am sure Mehmet will have it back on-line soon. <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <b>Here is an article on the topic: <\/b><br \/> <b><br \/><\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a32781804\/watch-lightning-strike-washington-monument\/\"><b>https:\/\/www.popularmechanics.com\/science\/a32781804\/watch-lightning-strike-washington-monument\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here in the DC area, the monument is very frequently in view. I have been up to the observation deck. We were here for the earthquake that damaged the structure. On Thursday night someone made a good video of lightning hitting the monument. This particular storm was flashing through my window, and was visible during &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/06\/06\/lightning-strike-on-the-washington-monument\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lightning Strike on the Washington Monument&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,40,104,289],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lightning","category-sdr","category-washington-d-c","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7769,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions\/7769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}