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but every time it rains, you're here in my head / like the sun coming out

Sudden cloudburst on the way to Rawlins, WY

Chor und Hochaltar

Choir and high altar in St. Michael's Church in Vienna

"The high altar was designed in 1782 by Jean-Baptiste d’Avrange. It is decorated with the monumental stucco alabaster Rococo sculpture Fall of the Angels (1782) by sculptor Karl Georg Merville. It represents a cloudburst of angels and cherubs, falling from the ceiling towards the ground." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Saint_Michael,_Vienna

"Die vier Evangelistenstatuen des Hochaltars stammen von Johann Martin Fischer und die Statuen des heiligen Rochus (rechts) und des heiligen Sebastian (links) sowie die zwei Putti und die vier Engel von Philipp Jakob Prokop. Über dem Tabernakel befindet sich das Gnadenbild Maria Candia, ein italo-byzantinischen Kunstwerk aus dem 16. Jahrhundert, das aus der Nikolauskirche zu Candia (heute Iraklio) hierher übertragen wurde." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaelerkirche_(Wien)

The first impression of Flåm is the little church at the entrance of the village.

If you like the shot I recommend this set to you:

www.flickr.com/photos/elenovela/sets/72157651016944425/

www.elenovela.eu

Morning cloudburst over Molokai from Kapalua Bay, Maui

Water runs down my street after last night’s intense 10 min downpour complete with strong winds and hail. No water entered anyones homes as far as I know. The white stuff on the edge of the lawn is hail. This photo was illuminated by a lighting bolt. I didn’t photograph the lighting itself but it gave an eerie green glow to the photo.

Michigan City, IN

* Pianura Padana / Modena.

Il cielo ad un certo punto è diventato scuro , ci sono state anche delle trombe d'aria più nel Bolognese.

I campi di grano/frumento sembrava che avessero delle onde.

Un tempo così non è nuovo in questo periodo dell'anno.

Il cielo era proprio così all'originale, come l'effetto luce sul campo.

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Come e quando si formano: Le nuvole che danno origine ai nubifragi si formano per la differenza di temperatura tra il suolo e il cielo e per la convergenza di diverse masse d’aria in un punto particolare del territorio. Nel periodo estivo, quando le acque marine sono più calde, e nei primi mesi d’autunno, quando la temperatura dell’aria inizia a calare, questi fenomeni sono più frequenti, perché la differenza tra masse d’aria (quella umida e calda presente nei mari e quella più fredda negli strati superiori dell’atmosfera) aumenta.

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At some point the sky has become dark, there have been even more tornadoes in the Bolognese.

The wheat / wheat fields looked like they had waves.

This kind of weather is not new at this time of year.

The sky is just like the original, like the light effect on the field.

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How and when they are formed: The clouds that give rise to storms are formed by the difference in temperature between the ground and the sky and the convergence of different masses of air in a particular point of the territory. In the summer, when the sea waters are warmer, and in the first months of autumn, when the air temperature starts to fall, these phenomena are more frequent, because the difference between air masses (the wet and warm one present in the seas and the colder one in the upper layers of the atmosphere) increases.

North Norfolk - Morston Quay - The rain on the horizon became a cloudburst some minutes later. It absolutely fell down but the storm produced a wonderful rainbow which touched the horizon at each end - so, two pots of gold?

Time to reflect and take in the serenity of Elvion, while I look for new lands to explore and new adventures .

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Hello earth

Hello earth

With just one hand held up high

I can blot you out

Out of sight

Peek-a-boo,

Peek-a-boo, little earth

With just my heart and my mind

I can be driving

Driving home

And you asleep

On the seat

I get out of my car

Step into the night

And look up at the sky

And there's something bright

Traveling fast

Just Look at it go

Just Look at it go

Hello earth

Hello earth

Watching storms

Start to form

Over America

Can't do anything

Just watch them swing

With the wind out to sea

All you sailors

(Get out of the waves, get out of the water)

All life-savers,

(Get out of the waves, get out of the water)

All you cruisers,

(Get out of the waves, get out of the water)

All you fishermen

Head for home

Go to sleep, little earth

I was there at the birth

Out of the cloudburst

The head of the tempest

Murderer

Murderer of calm

Why did I go?

Why did I go?

Tiefer, tiefer

Irgendwo in der tiefe

Gibt es ein licht

Go to sleep little earth

Kate Bush ~ Hello Earth 1985

(From The Hounds Of Love Album)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsfNYATsEE

Taken With Grateful Thanks At Elvion: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Lateralus/233/186/37

From the Ullapool/Stornoway Ferry, Scotland.

As seen in Lydiate on Merseyside, UK yesterday evening.

Cloud trails over yellow frame at Alviso Marina.

(Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge)

. . . into the cloudburst overhead

I wanna get my face wet

It's been buried in the sand for years

(Headlong) into the cloudburst naked

There's really no escaping it

There's gonna be a cloudburst here . . .

🎼 Cloud Burst at Shingle Street 🎼- Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless (1982), Thomas Dolby

Getaway to The Getaway!

Trying to catch the wind and sea air to send to Jane.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide

Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;

And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,

And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying

.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8J1mK3jats

Minutes After Cloudburst {a.r}

Aberdeenshire was looking beautiful today ...... but half an hour later we were soaked by a cloudburst. Worth it though!

I'm attempting to use more colour and trying a different style of street photography.

At the end of a refreshing cloudburst at the Film Festival in front of the Vienna City Hall. In the background you can see the Burgtheater.

Old dutch windmill across the water with a dramatic sky above.

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Cloudburst rainbow on Lake St. Lawrence, Cornwall, Ontario.

Scottish Highland weather can be as dramatic as it can be changeable. View down Loch Maree from Tollie Farm, Nr Gairloch in the evening light. Oh to be there again it's just so magic.

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I went out between passing showers, and caught this snail 'flat out' and scurrying to find a dry place before the next cloudburst. Good thing it didn't have far to go..... :))

Happy Snail Saturday!

Take time to relax and enjoy your weekend :)

I don't know what this is

but you got me good

just like you knew you would

I don't know what you do

but you do it well

I'm under your spell

you got me begging you for mercy

Why wont you release me?

break it down!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE2orthS3TQ

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The Storm Approaches...

Up and out by 5.00 am just ahead of the sunrise, greeted by a cloudy, stormy morning; heavy, large raindrops fell like blobs from the sky. each one exploded like large water balloons on the pavement and grass at my feet...

The turbulent sky roiled and boiled in front of my lens; as i braved the wind and the rain to snap this photo. then came the deluge and a sudden mad dash for home.

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Number four in my theme for this week Raindrops and Rain. Taken during at Seaford, East Sussex, UK in 2017. A cloudburst running down my windscreen.

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Another one from a VERY rainy night in Norfolk. A few minutes after this there was a cloudburst and it poured down.

A rainstorm moves across the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado. From our May trip to the Southwest. Colorado and New Mexico are benefitting from a wet winter and monsoonal rain this summer, leading to lowered wildfire risk. Let's hope that the Pacific Northwest receives some much needed rain soon.

Hope you have a good start to your weekend. Thanks, as always, for stopping by and for all of your kind comments -- I appreciate them all. Still catching up ...

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Captured in 830 nm cutoff infrared with a converted camera.

Heavy downpour sweeping across the landscape.

The storms this afternoon had little lightning but did bring hail.

The cloudburst had great lighting late in the afternoon from the Sun out of frame to the right.

Drew let me know that the 664 local [or M-EDYGAL, whatever they wanna call it today] had a pair of warbonnets on it so when I saw that the light was going to be gone before it got to Ottumwa, I headed over to Monroe-Wapello Road to see what I could see. As we waited the clouds were threatening to make the scene completely dull, but as the train was given permission to leave, they started to thin. And by the time it got moving a small cloudburst dropped a light rain on us creating a really bright, textured scene. I'm not sure I've ever shot in golden hour backlit rain like this before, but I really dig the sunshower effect.

Socorro, New Mexico.

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Taken a couple weeks ago from my back yard.

grapes hate rain...it will be a bad year for the winemakers. These tiny little ones of promise shriveled up on the vine in the constant barrage of cloudbursts