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This isolated thunderstorm at sunset was about 25 miles to my northeast. It dropped a few bolts of lightning but caught the last rays from the sun. It held together to Pine Bluffs, WY an hour later.
Storms start to move across the plains as BNSF 6158 leads a westbound coal load out of Brush, Colorado on July 29, 2018. This will be the last train through before an EF-2 tornado tears through town leaving some buildings and the airport damaged.
Le prime gocciole del temporale scendono a bassa quota per vedere se c’è terra per atterrare
(Ramon Gomez de la Serna)
A few days ago a storm system developed to our west and I went to the hill where I usually photograph the thunderstorms coming from the west. The problem was that my kit lens only goes down to 16mm which is 24mm in 35mm terms. That wasn't wide enough because I couldn't get in the frame the entire structure of the storm which was massive. So I decided to take several photographs and in the end I had 12 photos in total. I made this panorama in Photoshop and the end result is 50.94 Mpix and has this fisheye-like distorsion which I like. In this way I could capture the base and the huge anvil with these amazing mammatus cluds.
A dramatic sky earlier this week. It has been an almost daily occurrence for the past week or so.
From the storm last week in Virginia, now back home in Texas. Thunderstorms forming south of Lake Woodlands.
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I took this two nights ago after dinner. It looked like the storm clouds were gathering again, and so I piled the younger child into the Burley, and the other child ran next to me with the dog, and we headed up the road toward NCAR to see what could be seen. A couple minutes after I snapped this scene, lightning began striking the peaks. We immediately turned around and headed back down hill, but too late to avoid getting pelted and soaked. Both kids crammed into the Burley (now past its 100 lb capacity), and I tried to stuff the dog in as well, since he was the slowest link. No dice. He was having none of it and preferred to run next to me in the thunder. So we cruised downhill, me getting as wet as I've ever been on a bicycle. But the kids were dry at least.
Explored 2015-05-26
Following on from this...
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Reaching FL350 out of Singapore and staying well clear of the storms
Thunderstorm approaching at the Almsee in Grünau in Upper Austria on a sultry summer day. You can see the clear water and the clouds appearing in the sky.
These clouds are the blow-back upper level clouds from a thunderstorm. The storm is moving away from my position.
This HDR image was created in PaintShop Pro X6 by separating a single RAW file into 3 images (±2.0ev).
This is a crop of an older picture, as recommended by no body atoll Thanks for the tip!
April 11, 2017- Morgantown, West Virgina. The first real thunderstorm of the Spring season. I had to run to get these pictures and then get back inside before the rain started. It was amazing and totally worth it. I love how the wind felt, the smell, the temperature, the sound, everything.
A panorama of three individual shots of the thunderstorm, including (OF COURSE) the one where I caught a lightning bolt as well as one where a bird took to the rising wind. See also a crop of just the lightning bolt.
Spektakuläre Wolken an der Mosel in Wormeldange/Luxembourg / Spectacular cloud formations by the Mosel river in Wormeldange/Luxembourg
Those of you in Europe will have experienced the widespread thunderstorms over the last couple of weeks. This is what it looks like from the air. For us the skies are our workplace and thunderstorms take up a heck of a lot of room. What you may not appreciate is quite how large they are. They are usually as high or higher than any airliner can fly and can be 30 to 100 miles across. You only really get a true impression of their size when you see another airliner flying past one. I was at 38,000ft and the Airbus 320 in the photo was at 37,000ft and neither of us were above the tops of the storms. Going through them is not an option so we had to pick our way around them. The only people working harder than us on days like these are ATC who still have to keep us apart.
Thunderstorm approaching Sydney from the West. It brought hail, lightning, and lots of rain. Was gone as quickly as it appeared into a previously perfectly sunny day.
Thunderstorms over sunflower seedlings in Woodland, CA.
While I was shooting the nice sunset over the sunflowers in my previous photo I kept seeing these flashes of light. Since the field was at the intersection of the highway and one of the busiest streets in town I assumed they were just the setting sun reflecting off of passing cars.
Finally I turned around and saw the swirling clouds and a quick flash of lighting. I hustled out of the sunflowers, thought about driving to a better foreground, then decided to take what I could find here in case the storm didn't last. The best I could find was the alignment of this row of sunflower seedlings with the stadium lights at Pioneer high school. The clouds cooperated and centered themselves, too.
It was good I decided to stay because there were only a few more strikes in the next five minutes and then it was all over. Not the greatest composition but skies like this are pretty rare in this part of the valley so I thought I'd share.