00:28 John Daub: Alright guys, just really quickly, over here, you can see the beautiful moon and the Tokyo Skytree. That's what had our attention until we looked to the left and then we had this. And we have a nice view of Saturn, but it's just an extraordinary electrical storm. Hey guys, I don't hear it, but I wonder how far away this is. I don't hear any thunder. Do you? I just heard a little rumble. That was my gas.

02:52 Peter von Gomm: Peter, I just realized two years ago, this day we came here.

02:57 John Daub: Two years ago today?

02:58 Peter von Gomm: Yes.

02:58 John Daub: Wow, congratulations. Excellent.

03:01 John Daub: We've got a major news flash. I mean, just flashes. I don't know if it's news yet. But I've never seen anything like it. In your 50 years, Peter, and this is the first time someone has said this.

03:14 Peter von Gomm: Have I seen something like this before? Yeah. Yes. You did not. Today. It's in my 50 years.

03:21 John Daub: I want to see lightning bolts start coming out of the side of it and start blasting stuff. Honestly, this is a science fiction movie. Well, let's just keep this in the distance. We don't want to blow it. And in fact, it's getting closer. It's coming towards us. It is getting closer. Is there a storm coming that we don't know about?

03:39 Peter von Gomm: Yes, it is.

03:40 John Daub: Can you do a common writer voice? Just saying. Necrom. Omega Uruod.

04:01 John Daub: Um, Reese, it does look like something like a volcano or Godzilla may emerge. Literally, this is absolutely worthy of your guys' attention. And we got 250 people watching. It's increasing pretty quickly. Definitely share this. I'm not going to let you guys go until we come to a resolution. We're going to have to make a resolution on what this is. I really don't know. And, uh, we have some pretty intelligent people in the house, um, since Chris left. And, uh, Josh has no idea. Josh has taken pictures, too.

04:36 Josh: Hi. This is just, he came here two years ago today. Is when you arrived in Japan.

04:40 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. I arrived here two years ago today. And I woke up in the morning and I saw that view. Without the moon. But with the Sky Tree. It felt surreal. I'm not going to lie.

05:03 John Daub: I asked Kanae to get my camera from my backpack. Did you see that? Yeah. Oh, we're going to hear a blast of that. We're going to hear something from that. No, it's too, maybe too far. And it's happening inside the, inside the cloud. It's all inside of this cone of death.

05:38 John Daub: This is absolutely mesmerizing. Guys, we're live right now in Tokyo, looking at a storm that's approaching. I believe this is from the north, right? Is this the north?

05:57 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it's basically north. Yeah. This is basically north of Tokyo.

06:00 John Daub: So I really can't pinpoint. Usually the weather's coming from west to east. Thanks, Kanae. The weather's coming west to east, but we've got this storm coming in. Like, from the north of Tokyo. It looks like it's coming closer to us. It's hard to really know for sure. I've got my camera out to take a thumbnail of this thing. Let's get this on manual mode. Yeah, it's really beautiful. And it's compact. It's like this concentrated cloud. What's bizarre is that it's like not making any noise whatsoever, right? It's sort of inside the cloud. I mean, that's like a sound isolator. I'm taking some photos of this.

06:46 John Daub: Wow, that's cool. Yeah, this is just. It's sort of like a storm cloud in a, it's like one of those bizarre magic spells that wizards try to like. If you actually back it up a while, it's cool. If you back up, I can see lower bits of lightning that are not, you can't see through the upper part of the cloud. Wow. That was cool. That went horizontally. This is way too cool. It's not making, I still don't hear any thunder. How far away is this?

07:37 Peter von Gomm: I don't know. I don't know why we don't hear thunder. It's not that far.

07:40 John Daub: That's what's kind of creeping me out. Maybe it's a UFO in the middle of that cloud. And it's putting a shell on you. What do you guys think out there in the chat? Just let me know what you know. If you're watching the weather report, do you know anything about this weird storm that's approaching Tokyo? This is just north of Tokyo. And I wonder what's happening to the people that's underneath this thing. And it looks like it's really spread wide. And it looks like it's kind of coming our way. Oh, I know it's coming our way. I can feel it.

08:24 John Daub: I'm taking long exposure photos to see if I can get something interesting for the thumbnail for this video because, honestly, I've never seen anything like this. This is just extraordinary.

09:24 John Daub: It's like it's building up. I bet you a big one's coming. Oh! Did you see that? Yeah. Big one. If it doesn't do it for a while, it's like an earthquake. A big one. That one broke out of the side. The um whatever that shape is looks like Medusa's head I guess the helicopter's doing a little scoop through it but just say uh is there a helicopter going that way I would love to see the helicopter go that way it's a brave pilot that could be Han Solo in there oh I got that one in long exposure let's see oh yes check that out that's awesome all right are you guys seeing this yeah this is extraordinary I've never seen anything like this just that's not exactly true I was in Darwin Australia about gosh 12 years ago and they had some massive electrical storms up there but nothing like just tight in this kind of a shape like this that's really unique usually it's spread out it's between Koga (Koga, Ibaraki prefecture) and Shimotsuma (Shimotsuma, Ibaraki prefecture) according to Naptime 875.

11:23 John Daub: Hey guys can you turn them on yeah and you know what's funny because the moon on the other side is so beautiful we're focused on this storm instead which is such a shame we got the moon and we got a storm it's an addition just keep watching there's some lightning off in the distance away from the cloud oh i saw that who got that did you see that one oh yeah that was awesome ah i like it when it goes outside the cone of electricity it's pretty cool it closed the door can you close the door so yeah i don't want to get any of this Mexican music in here because it's made by an artist who's okay close the door close the door thank you watch what's inside of it yeah it's hot out here isn't it i wonder what's causing that i can tell you that it's between um let's see here we have some reports coming in from the live chat thank you everybody for notifying us oh that was amazing this is a live storm in Tokyo just north of Tokyo apparently according to i'm going back through the chats here this is a storm uh i'm trying to pinpoint between Koga and Shimotsuma according to Naptime 875 and we have an amazing amount of electricity in this storm um the sun has gone down as you can clearly see.

13:10 John Daub: If you go back to this stream about 10 minutes ago, all around this cloud, it's blue sky, which makes it extremely unique. Peter, you take over. You have actually the voice.

13:29 Peter von Gomm: We are here live, experiencing an unbelievable feat of Mother Nature. Please stay tuned for more updates. Can we have an update again right now?

13:43 John Daub: See now it's kind of dispersed a bit. It's not isolated under that funnel cloud.

13:48 Peter von Gomm: No, because it's getting closer. Is that why?

13:51 John Daub: Oh, that means there's a tornado. Funnel cloud. That's not really a funnel cloud. It's not funneling. It's just... I need to make my own. It's something-ing. I don't know what it is. But it's doing something that we don't really see. I don't see any rain. You know, it doesn't feel like it's raining. It doesn't feel like the rain is coming. You know, you get a smell of rain coming.

14:26 Peter von Gomm: No, no, no. Is it the end? Is this the end? This could be the end for us. It's coming out this way. Could be the end.

14:35 John Daub: But I've never seen a cloud like that. That's the point. I've never in my life seen anything like that. Just it's all isolated and it's all... It's limited to the ceiling. Are there any... Oh, did you see that? And the edge is so defined. There's nothing but blue sky. Did you guys just see that? That was... If it doesn't do anything for a couple of seconds, it charges up and just completely...

15:11 Peter von Gomm: I think a big one's coming.

15:14 John Daub: You see how peaceful it is? The opposite. Why do we as humans focus on this craziness over there? All right, guys. I'm gonna pick you up and show you what he's talking about. It's absolutely clear. It's so clear over on this side. You can see we got a beautiful view of the Tokyo Skytree. And there's Saturn in the distance underneath it. You can see it. And then... Hey, guys. No, no. We want to keep this a family show, please. We have 500 people watching. So... Yeah. There's 500 people watching. Imagine 500 people with us.

16:37 John Daub: That's a great idea. I've got an idea that I can say whatever I want at Peter's house. There's some more low altitude stuff happening all around here. I know. If we were a little bit higher, I think it would be easier to see. But on the left and right of it, it looks like... Which is really weird because, you know, what's happening over here is it's completely clear. I guess it's starting to spread out. What do you think?

17:28 Peter von Gomm: I don't see it spreading out at all.

17:31 John Daub: I have no idea what you're talking about. Where is it spreading out? The lightning is in the middle. And it's coming towards us. But you're not seeing it. Do you think it can kind of go on here? How is that different from the other?

18:02 John Daub: Guys, I'm going to stay with you for a couple more minutes, but it's a pretty amazing sight, this cloud. We noticed it about 20 minutes ago. And I went live just because I'd never seen anything like it. It seemed like something to share with you. This is north of Tokyo. And... yeah. The strikes seem to be going... We've seen them in the front, but there's also a lot going on the other side that we can't see.

19:08 John Daub: So we're actually here for Peter's 50th birthday party. And... The party has gone back downstairs. It's just us. But I don't know. I could look at this for hours, you know?

19:54 Peter von Gomm: What do you think, Peter? Is it getting closer?

19:56 John Daub: Yeah, I think it's gone a little bit south. South meaning towards here?

20:04 Peter von Gomm: Oh, wow. Yeah. Look at the plane flying right into it. What? Oh, yeah. There's a plane going through it. Stu, did you see this? Wait a minute. I think we... I think somebody has just landed. Somebody has just beamed down from that cloud. Oh, I see. They were in the cloud. Yeah. Check it out. Oh, wait. That plane went... Did the plane go through it? Right alongside it. Right alongside it. It could be one of those just weather planes that are exploring this thing.

20:39 John Daub: Stu, are you watching this? Have you seen this cloud? Come on over here. Check it out through the window of death here. I don't know why I just called it that, but... Come gingerly. Do you see... See right there? Wait for it. There it is. Did you see that?

21:05 Stu: Hey, that's my hometown.

21:07 John Daub: What did you just say? You mean like in the cloud?

21:12 Stu: Yeah.

21:14 John Daub: Hold on a second. That's you. Hey, that's my hometown. That's pretty scary. All right, back to the storm. All right, just one more minute of this before the party.

21:34 Stu: You do look like Saturn, by the way, with the frisbee on your head. It's Saturn, man. I'm supposed to be Saturn, but he doesn't let me have any camera time. Oh, and I arrived in that last flash that you saw. But you know what? He turned the lens around. And Saturn, man. To his own face, disappeared. And suddenly, I was faced with this kind of like soft thing in my hand. And I'm like, don't appeal to Earth people. Good Lord, if I don't get screen time, at least I can try and find somebody's smartphone time. But look at you and your ridiculous pink glasses. What planet are you from?

22:20 John Daub: I don't know. Did you invite this guy?

22:23 Peter von Gomm: I'm not sure. I don't know. He's back. Back to the storm. And you just missed the greatest...

22:30 Stu: I know, we had a greatest performance by Stu.

22:35 Peter von Gomm: No, by Mother Nature. Yeah, by Mother Nature.

22:38 John Daub: This is, just once again everybody, this is a storm that we picked up. We didn't notice it because the sun had, until the sun is set. And now that the sun is completely set, it's so beautiful, isn't it? Honestly, this wasn't even on my radar.

22:54 Peter von Gomm: You didn't know that this is here, right? I had no idea.

22:58 John Daub: You came up here for the moon. I came up here for the moon, right? I wanted to see a good sunset, and then I discovered the end of the world is just 50 kilometers north of us.

23:12 John Daub: Nathaniel writes in, John, you really want to stay in Peter's house for the night? Maybe not. Can I see her? We'll make it home. I think we've got some time. We've got a special room. Yeah, we're aware of that. Soundproof. Yeah, thank you for everybody who's joining us for Peter's party and those who are just here for the storm. I got some pretty good photos, time-lapse photos of this, so hopefully this scientist will be studying this for decades to come.

23:50 John Daub: Actually, you asked if I had experienced something like this before, and a couple years ago, in the morning here in Tokyo, I heard this thunderstorm roll through, and it was really amazing. I could hear it in stereo. It was like, as it went from left to right, thundering through the sky, and I was like, wow, that was amazing. And then a friend of mine on Facebook also posted the same thing. He was like, I was laying in bed this morning, and I heard this thunderstorm just roll through. It was just really extraordinary. I mean, you hear about thunderclouds and thundering, and that's exactly how it sounded. It was just like rolling through the sky. Just panning through. It was amazing.

24:39 John Daub: There's no more lightning up in the top of it. All of it right now seems to be the sides spreading out, doesn't it? It's not the same kind of activity in the center of it. It's more, someone has smooshed it. Towards us, but we still can't hear it. We still can't hear it. Have you heard any sort of thunder?

24:57 Peter von Gomm: Nothing.

25:01 John Daub: That's what's so bizarre to me. I haven't heard any thunder. I hear the airplanes. I just don't hear any thunder. It's just really... Oh, wow.

25:11 John Daub: Sybolo Tois writes in, show us the special room. Peter, look what you've done. Thank you. Yeah, Mother Nature, I appreciate that. No one's showing anyone a special room. What you're getting is a special view. From a special... Nothing compares to Mother Nature's display of awesomeness.

25:34 Peter von Gomm: However, the special room is a close second. Really? Really. Picked my curiosity.

25:43 Peter von Gomm: Thanks, everybody. It's been a fantastic birthday.

25:45 John Daub: Happy birthday. And it's just never-ending. I had an awesome party in the States. Came home last night, and now this surprise party. It's just superb. Yeah, and in a live stream before this, we surprised Peter. Somehow, he sort of knew. Could have been because there were 20 pairs of shoes. But I honestly did not see them. I did not. I swear to God, I did not see them. I was surprised, although I was a little bit tipped off by some whispering. That I heard. What's that mean? Downstairs. Or you imagined that might have been in your sleep. Half-sleep. Well, no, I heard... I thought it was Joji in the hallway saying, Daddy. Whoa, there goes my tinfoil hat. Thanks. It's amazing how 10 people whispering can really make a loud racket.

26:34 John Daub: Oh, I missed that with the photo. Shoot, I'm doing some time-lapse video. Yeah, new video coming up very soon. And new videos coming up very soon. So please stay tuned. Yeah, if you guys... There's 420 people watching. If you do like this, give it a thumbs up. Sometimes I don't know if it's worth going live to show you guys this kind of stuff.

26:57 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, well, it's only in Japan.

26:59 John Daub: This just happens to be in Japan. But it doesn't happen very often. It's never happened in my lifetime. I've never... It's happened somewhere, but not in front of me like this. Not when I caught it. Well, it is incredibly humid in Tokyo today and tonight. Yeah, we had around 30... 37, 38 degrees plus just killer humidity. And now a killer storm.

27:26 John Daub: Stew is out there, man. Someone's got to... Stew is out there. Stewie said he's left. But he's going to leave like three times now. He loves it here. I can hear him in the distance. He's louder than the storm. Stewie's a madman. He's louder than the storm. He is the storm. I think he brought the storm. When he departs, it's when the storm takes over. He takes him with him. He's from the storm. Hello, Sydney, Australia.

28:03 John Daub: I'm doing long exposure shots. See if I can get lucky with some strikes. You can actually... You can almost hear the thunder. A little bit. Yeah. It's hard with Stew out there. We're having a fun time downstairs on the first floor. I'll stick with you guys for a little bit longer. Right out the storm, so to speak. Hi from Thailand. Rumble, rumble. Joji's downstairs. He's got a couple of friends over, so they're playing video games. Hi from Melbourne, Australia, California. It's nice to hear from everybody around the world. If you guys do have any information on this storm, definitely write in, chat. It might be hitting the weather channel. It might be hitting the news services because it's just a bizarre storm. Not something that we see every day in Tokyo. Not something we see often at all. It's very rare to see this kind of a storm.

29:11 John Daub: But what makes this one really unique? For those who are joining us. It was all in the beginning. Just compacted to this funnel-looking cloud, which is up there. Thank you very much. This storm is violent due to above normal temperatures. That could be very well the case. Because right now, there's a little bit of wind picking up. It's been pretty still. I guess not much wind in the city of Tokyo. And the humidity is starting to go down. Maybe the storm is pushing it up. I really don't know. But it was just a sight that I'd never seen before. Just go back and replay this when this video renders through YouTube. And you can watch it again. You'll see what it looked like about 30 minutes ago. It was just extraordinary. And now that the sun's gone down, the lightning is a little bit... Lightning has tapered down a little bit. But it was so much more pronounced. So much more visible about 30 minutes ago when it started. So much so that it was just attracted so many eyes. Up here at the party. Now everyone's gone back down. But I'm still just really drawn to this storm. Because I've never seen anything like it. I've been to Darwin. Darwin had the most powerful electrical storms I've ever seen. But this is sort of spread out. Sorry. Darwin's was sort of spread out. This one is very confined into a very small amount of space. And it's just curious to me. So, thanks for watching. I'm going to end this. Godzilla could very well be in there. I'm not sure. But I can tell you one thing for sure. It's pretty cool. It's pretty cool to be able to go live and share this with you guys. Thanks for the likes. Appreciate that.

31:01 John Daub: So-called heat lightning is a little too far. So we've got some people writing in about this. The so-called heat lightning is just too far away to hear the thunder. It has to be no further than 7 or 8 miles. Which is about 11 or 12 kilometers. That could be true. I think it's still quite a ways away. Right, Chris? Don't drink and drive. Thank you. We take the train here. Thanks, Nathaniel. Looks like the storm is sort of settled down a little bit. The lightning. The clouds moving from left to right in the screen. That's the north of Tokyo. This is north of us. Peter's saying goodbye to some people who might have had a little bit too much. So much booze.

32:04 John Daub: M Source is a meteorologist at Japan. Thank you. So let's see if we can get some more information on this storm. I'm monitoring the live chats right now looking for any kind of information. All right. We have Ride to Go 8. It's above Shimotsuma now. It's going east. How is Shimotsuma doing? Is there any reports of... They said this is Typhoon 6. It's in Shiromon, according to the professor. The storm is over Shimotsuma now. I'm getting reports. It's in Ibaraki and Tochigi. Some very strong electrical storms over there. We're watching it from Tokyo in the north. But it's isolated just in that one small area. It's not quite as strong as it was 30 minutes ago. At least not visually what we're seeing here. But the lightnings have... I guess they're moving. I don't know if they're moving north or moving into another direction. Right in front of us, if you guys look up on the screen, just straight up from that pole that's in the middle, that was just a white cloud. And on the left and the right of it, it had spread out a little bit. But then it was blue sky on the far left and right. It was very unique. And now it just seems to have dissipated a little bit. So we seem to be in the clear here in Tokyo. The U.S. military up in Atsugi just got weather alerts securing logistics. Thank you, Nathaniel, for the update on this. I appreciate that. We can barely see the storm anymore.

34:01 John Daub: That's true. I'm still here. Everybody else has gone down. I'm going to go down to the first floor as well. This has been an incredible experience. I think... I'd like to hear more from meteorologists or people in the weather service to see what that storm was. If you can see it visually, play back about 30 minutes ago and you'll see what I'm talking about. But forward this video if you can see it. And put down in the comments below, right, what you think this was, if this is a normal occurrence. This is just something so weird that it's out of the blue. So I'm going to give the last 20 seconds looking over at the Tokyo Skytree. You see that there? And a really beautiful full moon. It was red when it was rising up. And that's what drew me outside to go and watch. Saturn is between... Actually, Saturn is on the horizon. You can see it twinkling. You see that? You see that right there? That's Saturn. That light in the center of the screen. So, yeah. Thanks everybody for watching this storm experience. I'm glad I could share this with you. It was kind of a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the updates to see what you guys thought of this storm. So, have a good night. That's it for the live streams for today. See you next time, everybody.