Storm
By Rkwright
29 Jul, 2014
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This is just the edge of one of the thunderstorms that went through yesterday. This one was really strong and I almost got caught in it. It had a strange blue-green color but it didn't show that well in the picture.
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It was a strong storm and it arrived very quickly, there weren't any tornadoes but I heard there was some large hail. The temperature dropped 10-15 degrees after the storm hit too. I have noticed a lot of storms we get head that way. hopefully these ones will go around you
30 Jul, 2014
I'll never forget when one of those storms took down a commercial airliner back in 1974 about a mile from my house and killed about 300 people.
30 Jul, 2014
from the screenshot, it looked like a very tall, very thin chimney belching smoke! awesome clouds
30 Jul, 2014
Yeah, those storms are no joke. I'd never want to fly through anything like that! I was in a plane once that had to go through a storm somewhere between Arizona and California and it was a pretty scary experience.
30 Jul, 2014
I've got some weather documentaries; one of them talks about downbursts or microbursts around storms, several aircraft have crashed because of them - can't see them in advance, don't show on radar, so they're an invisible hazard and all the more dangerous because of that.
some storms in the US are awesome - there are "storm chasers" who follow them to study them. Me, I'd be heading in the opposite diection!
31 Jul, 2014
Yes there are definitely some powerful storms here, I have been through a few that produced tornadoes but luckily they were not all that strong and only one that hit a residential area. I was on vacation one year and saw two tornadoes touch down on Lake Superior. I was also working at a nursery once and we had a supercell thunderstorm that was so low it almost looked like it would collide with the roof of the building. They are incredible to see but it's always best if you are seeing them from far away!
6 Aug, 2014
I had one last summer that turned day into night Then everything turned green and trees were flying and a few buildings had roofs ripped off. When it was over, muy lawnmower was in my neighbor's yard.
6 Aug, 2014
another programme re supercell storms said that they release "sprites" upwards, cleear through and sometimes right out of the atmosphere. Scientists had no idea what these were, or even that they existed at all. Goes to show that nature is infinitely mysterious no matter how much you think you know about it!
6 Aug, 2014
Wow, that's something I did not know. Thanks.
6 Aug, 2014
it said that pilots had been seeing them for years, but hadn't reported them for fear of being ridiculed
there was a couple of blokes who positioned themselves overlooking the Great Plains, so that any storm that happened there, they had a chance to see above it.
just thought to look on YouTube, there seem to be several - I searched for "thunderstorm sprites"
6 Aug, 2014
Your storms usually head in my direction when they are done with you. That greenish color usually accompanies a "micro-burst" a very dangerous storms. A tornado is highly possible too.
29 Jul, 2014