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I just had time to catch this flash of lightning in slow motion before a huge rainstorm hit us. On replaying it, I was amazed to see the same flash four times! Taken looking just over my side fence facing west.
Video taken with the Sony RX10m4.
Just another hot and humid Stormy Afternoon in Caloundra.and as always my Amazing friends thanks so much for all your comments and faves.😎💯❤️
There were a lot of speeding 4WDs heading in the opposite direction, dashing off to do the Simpson in a weekend!
Also see #roundAustraliawithSpelio
See..
www.desertexpeditions.org/robyn-davidson-essay.html
Robyn was participating in an Australian Desert Expeditions Archaeological Expedition along Eyre Creek in the eastern Simpson Desert, Queensland.
The Australian desert: historically a place of heartbreak or of God. Explorers vanished into it. Pioneers met bitter ends there. Wives killed themselves for loneliness. Nowadays convoys of Toyota tourists charge across it, enjoying its beauty and breadth, but in an ambiguous way, as if there were something in it to conquer. Something dangerous to be put down.
from Erwin on FaceBook..
There are 10 officially recognized deserts in Australia.
The names, from west to east are:
1. Little Sandy Desert,
2. Great Sandy Desert,
3. Gibson Desert,
4. Tanami Desert,
5. Great Victoria Desert,
6. Pedirka Desert,
7. Simpson Desert,
8. Tiraria Desert,
9. Sturt Desert,
10. Strzelecki Desert.
The Tanami Desert has some beautiful vegetation after rains.
This is looking west in Scott County, MO just to the northwest of Oran, as a cell advancing from the south combined with the linear storms marching in from the southwest. The resulting push of wind initiated a tornado warning about 20 minutes later just south of Scott City, MO and about 10 minutes later a PDS tornado warning near Tamms, IL.
3/30/2025
Our sky was filled with these beautiful cumulus clouds with heavy wind and no rain. I know there's a lot to this series but as a science geek and lover of weather I couldn't decide on just one, I wanted to share all of its beauty with you
The day started with snow low in the foothills of Tuolumne County, California. Very dark clouds in the afternoon. Clearing skies just before sunset.
I ended up driving back and forth on Hwy 49 to get a safe vantage point for this one. Looks like it's another double one...the inner ring is very faint at the top of the image.
This panorama basically covers the breadth of Tuolumne County on the west side of California's Sierra Nevada Mountains. Sonora Pass (Hwy 108) is on the left side. Tioga Pass (Hwy 120) is on the right side.
[Just read there are 157 summits in Tuolumne Countyl
Reproduction of Trinity Test "Gadget" detonation tower near 1962 F-105D Thunderchief jet, a model nicknamed "Thud" by Vietnam War-era crews.
Location: National Museum of Nuclear Science & History; Albuquerque, New Mexico; June 21, 2024, 8:12pm
Per Wikipedia, the jet's nickname "Thud" came from the character "Chief Thunderthud" from the Howdy Doody television series (a helaciously dated native american caricature played by a white guy with a pencil 'stache). This supersonic fighter-bomber was said in its era to be a "Triple Threat" – it could bomb you, strafe you, or fall on you.
The Trinity Test detonation tower reproduction was constructed at the Museum in 2017 as dramatic housing for a reproduction of the "Gadget" test bomb exploded at the Trinity Test Site near Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945 – so-called at the time ("gadget") to avoid words like "atomic" or "bomb" for security reasons.
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by White Angel: "In Italy, at 7 in the morning at the seaside, especially during the summer, the light makes you blind and the sun is not photographable as too intensely lighted. I was lucky enough to succeed in maintaining the obturator of my camera opened for a nano second & obtain this spectacular shot just by chance" :-)
Just found an old sunset photo from 2015, almost to the day. Still a good one. The fog is coming in over Marin County and San Francisco Bay.
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- Viewpoint is looking west-south-west.
- Bunbury Basalt link:
phys.org/news/2016-05-supercontinent-rift-bizarre-bunbury...
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- Original image was captured using a Canon PowerShot A75 3.2MP 3x Zoom digital compact camera (at Medium resolution = 1600 x 1200 image size).
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- Latest version enhanced using Topaz Gigapixel AI & Skylum Luminar Neo AI software.
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The town of Seventeen Seventy is so named because on 24 May in that year, Lieutenant James Cook, captain of His Majesty's barque HMS Endeavour, came ashore and landed on the beach of Round Hill Creek in the vicinity of the present village.[1]
In the morning of Thursday May 1770, the Lieutenant in his pinnace (with Mr Joseph Banks and Dr Daniel Solander) and Second Lieutenant John Gore in the yawl left the ship for the shore and made their first landing in what is now Queensland and their second landing in Australia. Cook made eleven landings on the eastern seaboard and ten of these were in Queensland. Cook's landing spot at Bustard Bay was in the vicinity of the present caravan park (developed in 1978), where a stream at the southern end enters the beach just north of the remaining mangroves.[1]
Cook described the countryside as "visibly worse" than at Botany Bay, with dry and sandy soils, woods free of undergrowth, the same sort of numerous "birch" tree (coastal ironbark), mangroves skirting the lagoon and palm trees on low, barren, sandy places. He also noted bustards, black and white ducks, small oysters and other shell fish - mussels, pearl oysters and cockles.[1]
Botanist Joseph Banks, who accompanied Cook on his "little excursion into the woods", noted the great variety of plants even though the plant cover was not thick. He recognised plants already seen in the Tropics, and described many birds on shore including one species of Bustard. Some of the 55 specimens collected in the general area were illustrated and described in Banks' Florilegium, which was printed from copperplates under Banks' direction from Parkinson's unfinished sketches. (Parkinson died of dysentery on the voyage home.) As the woods behind Round Hill Head and adjacent to Round Hill Creek are the locality of the first botanical type-specimens collected in Queensland, they are of great scientific value. This was recognised in 1989 with the gazettal of Joseph Banks Environmental Park
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