View allAll Photos Tagged thunderstorms
thunderstorm with lightning
(Taken with a Leica small tripod 14100 from the open window of the south wing of my villa)
25 minutes after a rather intense hail storm, this severe thunderstorm was moving away at 30 mph. The white streaks at the base of this storm are hail shafts (about 12 miles distance).
after extreme heatwaves all summer, we finally have the first thunderstorms.... althought at the moment more noise than rain.
A massive storm hit Sydney this afternoon and we just now received the edge of it, extraordinarily strong wind, and some heavy rain for a brief period with thunder and lightning. But the most unusual sky Colour as well which we have not seen here before in Fern Bay over the past almost 7 years we have been here.
Active afternoon with popcorn thunderstorms after 1:30PM until 7:30PM. Not much rain hit my house. Note how fast the walkway dries after a brief shower.
Dies ist die Rückseite einer Gewitterzelle. Weiter oben sind Mammatuswolken zu sehen, diese sind Anzeichen für enorme Konvektion.
Dieses Foto ist ein "HDR" aus einem einzelnen Raw.
A define hot spots as areas where thunderstorms develop and continue to develop after the older forming storms move away. Today was just that situation. This thunderstorm appears nearly stationary but was being replaced with new storms as the old one dissipated where it formed.
Between 13:30 and the end of the clip, 0.56" fell.
This timelapse is accelerated 400x to save bandwidth. However, it shows the cycle I describe above prety well.
Taken with YI 4K action camera (~155 F.O.V.) in high definition video mode.
Picture of the Day
Not quite sure if this really is a "gustnado" but it is a very impressive and very rare cloud formation here south of Munich. Never saw one like this before!
A gustnado is a specific type of short-lived, low-level cyclonic cloud that can form in a severe thunderstorm. The name is a portmanteau of "gust front tornado", as gustnadoes form due to non-tornadic cyclonic features in the downdraft from the gust (outflow) front of a strong thunderstorm, especially one which has become outflow dominated.
Ob es sich hier wirklich um einen Böenfrontwirbel handelt, bin ich mir nicht sicher. Auf jeden Fall ist es eine sehr beeindruckende, ja fast schon erschreckende Wolkenformation. Von der Atmosphäre her war es fast schon so, dass man einen Tornado hätte erwarten können. Ich habe hier etwas in der Art bisher noch nicht gesehen! Auf jeden Fall habe ich mich dann schleunigst auf den Heimweg gemacht... ;-) Danach kam dann Gewitter, Sturm und Starkregen aber kein Hagel.
Böenfrontwirbel, die keine Tornados sind, sondern dynamisch erzeugte Kleintromben, entstehen an Böenfronten oder anderen Konvergenz- und Scherungslinien in der atmosphärischen Grenzschicht, an denen vertikale Wirbelstärke vorhanden ist. An kräftigen Böenfronten können solche Wirbel durchaus F1 auf der Fujita-Skala erreichen und damit schon nennenswerte Schäden verursachen. Nicht zuletzt deshalb werden Böenfrontwirbel oft fälschlich als Tornados gemeldet. Der Wirbel selbst wird hauptsächlich durch hochgewirbelten Staub sichtbar.
It was a rough week at work, so I needed some river time on my way home today. I got a good 15-20 mins in before the storm got close.
Aggie Ring loves a good "selfie!"
I could tell that Aggie Ring was impressed. After several moments of silence he spoke out and said, “If my Eyes of Texas aren’t deceiving me, that’s the biggest damn lightbulb I’ve ever seen! I guess it’s true… Everything IS bigger in Jersey!”
The Aggie Ring woke me up early this morning. In fact it was even before 11:30 a.m. so I knew he wanted to do something. I asked the Aggie Ring, “What do you want to do Aggie Ring?” The Aggie Ring replied, “I want to go see the lightbulb!” I wasn’t sure what he was talking about so I said, “What lightbulb?” The Aggie Ring said with emphasis, “Let there be LIGHT!” Then it hit me. Aggie Ring wanted to drive him up the Parkway to the site of Thomas A. Edison’s Menlo Park laboratory so he could see the Art Deco Edison Memorial Tower and “Big Ass Lightbulb!”
Other than the time he told me that he thought Elvis took our change in a tollbooth on the New Jersey State Turnpike, Aggie Ring has great ideas. It’s only about a 20 to 25 minute drive up the Parkway from our house so Aggie Ring and I set off to see the Edison Memorial Tower. The last time we’d been there it had been in horrible shape and they were beginning work on restoring it. That was a bit over a year ago so I assumed that Aggie Ring figured out that they would be finished with the conservation work on the historical site.
When we drove down the little side street where the tower is located the Aggie Ring was overwhelmed with awe at the restored site. Aggie Ring was truly “speechless!” It’s just as beautiful as the day it was built. They did an incredible job on the restoration. After a few moments sitting in the car just looking out the window Aggie Ring broke his silence and asked me, “Did you bring a cigar? Edison loved his cigars and I think he’d have wanted you to smoke a cigar while you’re looking the place over.” Unfortunately I had left my cigars at home so the Edison “smoke out” will have to happen on a future date.
The laboratory building is no longer at this site but it’s still impressive to think of not only the electric lightbulb, but all of the other great inventions that Mr. Edison invented here. Aggie Ring said, “Imagine. He did all this stuff without the help of an Aggie Ring!”
The Aggie Ring and I walked around the tower and took some photos of the “Big Ass Lightbulb” and the historical plaques at its base. The Aggie Ring and I are planning on going back some evening when the lightbulb is illuminated. Aggie Ring said, “It would be cool if you could get a photo during a thunderstorm when there’s lightning behind the tower.” I told Aggie Ring, “You’re crazy! I’m not standing out in a field during a lightning storm with an Aggie Ring on my finger! Maybe if we can get a VMI grad to come with us. Their rings are so damn big a lightning bolt would hit one of them before us!”
Aggie Ring said, “It’s a good thing Edison invented the lightbulb or there’d be a lot of Waggies drinking their tequila shots by candlelight!” I told the Aggie Ring, “True… Those Waggies love their tequila the invention of the lightbulb makes it a lot easier for them to pour the tequila and do body shots!”
Aggie Ring asked me to provide some info on the Edison “Big Ass Lightbulb” Memorial Tower for your educational enlightenment (“Get it?” Aggie Ring said):
Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower and Menlo Park Museum, New Jersey
"Let there be light." Thomas Alva Edison's Menlo Park Laboratory and Memorial Tower. Those of us on the Jersey Shore call it the "Big Ass Lightbulb!”
The Edison Tower, located on the site of the original laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, to which Thomas Alva Edison moved in 1876, was erected in 1937 as a monument to the great inventor. The Tower is the gift of William Slocum Barstow to the Thomas Alva Edison Foundation Incorporated in behalf of the Edison Pioneers. It was dedicated on February 11, 1838, the ninety-first anniversary of the inventor's birth.
Rising 131 ft. 4 in. above the ground, the tower looms as the highest discernible object for many miles. Surmounting the 117 ft. 8 in. concrete-slab structure is a 13 ft. 8 in. replica of the original incandescent lamp which, when illuminated, can be seen for a distance of several miles. It once served as an airplane beacon. The Tower is designed for pressure of wind at a velocity of 120 miles per hour. In its construction, which consumed slightly less than eight months, approximately 1200 barrels of Edison Portland cement and 50 tons of reinforced steel were used.
The large bulb on top of the Tower was cast by the Corning Glass Works. The replica bulb contains 153 separate pieces of amber tinted Pyrex glass, 2 in. thick, set upon a steel frame. The bulb is 5 ft. in diameter at the neck and 9 ft. 2 in. in diameter at the greatest width and weighs, without the steel frame on which it is placed, in excess of three tons. Before the restoration, inside this Pyrex glass bulb were four 1000 watt bulbs, four 200 watt bulbs, and four 100 watt bulbs. A duplicate of each was arranged as automatically to cut in should its companion bulb fail.
The Edison Tower has been completely restored and when complete, the bulb is now illuminated with modern Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology. Mr. Edison would be pleased with this, I’m sure.
While we don’t have any records of exactly what was said when Mr. Edison perfected his invention, I suspect one of his workers shouted out something like this: “Holy Mother of Baby Jesus on a Donkey!” “Mr. Edison, You’ve done it!!! You’ve perfected the Electric Light!!! You truly are King of Kings!!!!”
The tower is located on a mysterious plot of land and exactly at midnight on the night of a full moon, it would be a perfect site for the ritual sacrifice of virgins. Too bad we don’t have any of those in New Jersey! :-)
*********************
Aggie Ring says, “The Road Goes On Forever, and the Party Never Ends!”
More of the various times of a massive thunderstorm we had, with a different camera. Ilford disposable camera, reloaded with Kentmere 100, Orange filter from the 1930's taped over lens. D-76 for 7.5 minutes at 68 f.
It has been the been the hottest day this year in germany
In the night it started to thunder without rain
So i picked up my camera and tripod and went with my bike out of the vilage(ya i live in a village^^)
Untill it started to rain i shot several great shots
iPhone 4, Bracket Mode, Pro HDR, Camera+
We went to see the sunset and were treated to a fantastic thunderstorm.
Boulder County Colorado. This was taken off of Rt 52 by the sunflower fields looking toward Lafayette. Colorado Fine art nature landscape photography poster prints, decorative canvas prints, and stock images by James Bo Insogna Gallery Hi Res View: www.jamesinsogna.com/Weather/Lightning-Thunderstorm-Weath...
Two kinds of electrical generation going on here behind a southbound storm system...which in itself is a bit rare in these parts. Usually our weather rolls in from the west. I was a bit further behind the active lightning than I would have liked, but It is what it is...
Near Byron, WI July 15, 2017.
SOURCE FILE 9315
Copyright
All my photographic and video images are copyrighted. All rights are reserved. Please do not use, copy or edit any of my photographs without my written permission. If you want to use my photo for commercial or private use, please contact me. Please do not re-upload my photos at any location on the internet without my written consent.