{"id":8481,"date":"2012-07-20T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T19:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=8481"},"modified":"2012-07-28T19:14:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T01:14:07","slug":"a-shocking-broadcast-lightning-strikes-tv-studio-during-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/a-shocking-broadcast-lightning-strikes-tv-studio-during-weather-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"A shocking broadcast: Lightning strikes TV studio during weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3736\" title=\"Lightning strike (NOAA)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-26_074238-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lightning strike (NOAA)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-26_074238-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-26_074238-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011-06-26_074238.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The old saying says not to mess with Mother Nature and she apparently wanted to drive that point home in Boston yesterday.\u00a0 During a live weather forecast on WBZ-TV yesterday a lightning strike knocked the lights out in the studio.<\/p>\n<p>Thunderstorms rolled through much of the northeastern United States yesterday.\u00a0 The storms brought heavy rain, strong wind and plenty of lightning.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically Chief Meteorologist Todd Gutner was discussing those exact weather conditions when the bolt hit.<\/p>\n<p>Following the boom of thunder and a burst of static the lights went out and some of the displays flickered. \u00a0Amazingly enough the station was able to continue broadcasting and Gutner finished his forecast, albeit a bit in the dark.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSBOS.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=843669;hostDomain=video.boston.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=385;playerHeight=288;isShowIcon=true;clipId=7517424;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.BOSTON%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=fixed'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.boston.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old saying says not to mess with Mother Nature and she apparently wanted to drive that point home in Boston yesterday.\u00a0 During a live weather forecast on WBZ-TV yesterday a lightning strike knocked the lights out in the studio. Thunderstorms rolled through much of the northeastern United States yesterday.\u00a0 The storms brought heavy rain, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/a-shocking-broadcast-lightning-strikes-tv-studio-during-weather-forecast\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A shocking broadcast: Lightning strikes TV studio during weather forecast<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8481"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8496,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8481\/revisions\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}