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Tropical Storm Fengshen is close to Japan and forecast to continue on an east northeast track towards the central Pacific. The Japan Meteorological Agency has warned of storm surges while Japanese airline ANA warned of possible disruption to flights for Tuesday.
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Only got to snap off a couple of shots before i got the wrath of the cold rain. Nothing like a Texas storm.
I am facinated by storm cloud formations. Northeast Ohio gets lots of these every spring and summer.
I am facinated by storm cloud formations. Northeast Ohio gets lots of these every spring and summer.
Athens. Distant thunderstorm, 15.06.2011
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Yet another gorgeous storm rolling in over 519. This was at dusk and I saw a few flashes and heard a few rumbles but the storm never produced any rain. At least not that I could see. Winds were high. Temperature dropped. I was on the side of the road in this field on what looks like an abandoned farm in Hope, NJ.
I was out walking the dog trying to beat an approaching storm when I spotted these clouds. I liked the way they presented themselves, and to do them justice, I desaturated the photo until is was almost monochrome. Hope you like!
Edit: These may be Mammatus clouds. They were awesome nevertheless!
Saw this storm cloud after work today. I had to wait five minutes for my camera to adjust to the extreme heat outside.
Thanks to yesterday's Storm Eowyn there was so many trees blown over! My walk today took me through Fullerton Woods and I couldn't believe the number of trees that I found, like this!!
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After the airshow at Kirtland AFB ended the storm rolled in. First it rained a little. The drops were huge. It was sunny the whole time it rained.
www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/thewrongstuff/
By Kathryn Schulz
There's a select number of places on earth where you really, really don't want to make a mistake. High on the list, in every sense, are the planet's tallest mountains: the 14 peaks in the world that are more than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet).
Widely acknowledged as one of the world's greatest mountaineers, Ed Viesturs is one of fewer than 20 people and the only American to have climbed all of those peaks—and one of only five to have climbed them without supplemental oxygen. Nonclimbers probably know him best as the star of the 1996 IMAX movie about Mount Everest, which he has climbed seven times. I sought Viesturs out because I was curious about the kind of attitude you develop toward error when a single mistake can easily cost you your life.
Ed Viesturs: "A mistake is a mistake even if you get away with it. Even though we succeeded, I don't ever want to do that again. I felt on the way down that the conditions were pretty desperate. We could've gone down in an avalanche at any minute. We just got really, really lucky. There were moments I was convinced we weren't going to make it down, when I said [to myself], "Ed, you've made the last and most stupid mistake of your life."
"I think a lot of people, when they survive a situation like that, they're willing to do it again. They're like, "Well, you know I got away with it one time, I can probably get away with it again." You do that too many times and sooner or later, it's not going to work out."
"I don't really look back and say, "Oh my God, that thing I did was really idiotic, how could I have done that?" I think I always wanted to be careful. I didn't want to die in the mountains. I do think, though, that as I climbed more, I became more conservative, just because of all the things I'd learned. When you're less experienced, you don't even know about the mistakes you're making."
Schulz: Are there certain predictable mistakes that less experienced climbers tend to make?
Viesturs: There's what I call groupthink, what some people call summit fever. You know, there's five or six people and they're climbing along and the weather starts to get funky and the majority of the group wants to go on, and the person with the least experience is like, "Weeellll, they're going on, it's probably OK." It's almost a lemming-type effect. People get swept up in it, it's that psychological feeling of safety. But I think we see that a lot in everyday life, too, where there's a group of people doing something and you go, "Well, they're doing it, it's probably OK."
". . . Climbing a mountain has to be a round trip. So many people get to the summit but never make it back down."
Sunset before a storm at Hole-in-the-Wall Beach, Santa Cruz County, California.
Since my Sigma 10-20mm bit the dust, I've been without a wide angle, so this was shot using my 24-70mm f/2.8G at 24mm. One benefit of using this lens is the lovely flare I got with it stopped down during the early part of the sequence.
I forgot to check the tides before going down the trail to Panther Beach and the water was high. I couldn't tell if it was still coming in or if the tide had, uh, turned. I decided to take a chance and head through the arch to Hole-in-the-Wall. I made it through with no problem and headed down to the south end of the beach where I set up. While setting up I did eventually get soaked almost to the waist, but I was prepared for that! As the sun went down, the color drained right out of the sky, which was disappointing, but I got a few shots with decent color.
In this street corner, water was coming from all directions, it was like walking in a river. Fortunately I had an umbrella, but most people did not. Not that it helped much, the downpour was so strong that only the head and shoulders would stay dry.
In addition to broken windows and hundreds of fallen trees, the storm also tore down roofs and the flashes caused several house fires.
Windows broke down in central Helsinki.
In the evening, the lightning struck down 6,500 times, which is not unusual, but it's the first time this summer that there had been so much thunder,