CHASLX200
Member
Just took it, dead up above me.
Thunderstorm pic
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jeffsmith
Member
Great Pic
but keep your Camera Ready
the Radar shows more on the way
but keep your Camera Ready
the Radar shows more on the way
diamonback68
US Veteran
We've been getting the darnedest thunderstorms and drenching rain all day in Sebring.
Nice Pic! Glad you ecognized a great scene like that.
TACC1
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papajohn428
Member
Not my photo, but it's the most awesome example of Cumulus Mamatus I've ever seen. I was a storm chaser for a couple years, and saw several good examples, but never had a camera with me.
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
Not my photo, but it's the most awesome example of Cumulus Mamatus I've ever seen. I was a storm chaser for a couple years, and saw several good examples, but never had a camera with me.
That is gorgeous, and scary.
papajohn428
Member
Isn't it amazing what small organized downdrafts can do? I think Mamatus clouds are about the coolest things I've ever seen, but I'm kinda queer for weather phenomena.
The most awe-inspiring thing I ever saw was the birth of the Marion (IL) tornado back in '82, as we (my wife was a meteorologist) watched the rotation from the wall cloud spawn a funnel. The sun was shining down into it, and there was this glowing bowl of golden fury........then it grew a tail, the tail reached the ground, and the ugly stuff started. Before it was over ten people were dead, and I was on the phone giving news feeds for the next 48 hours from the radio station I worked at. This is a helicopter shot of the Ford dealership at IL Hwy's 57 and 64. My Program Director had bought a new 5-liter Mustang a week before, took it in for service, and it was eventually found under a pile of about 100 cars. Oops.
My apologies to the OP for the hijack, it took me an hour to find this photo, and I shudder when I think back to that day. I think my voice was heard on half the radio stations in the country, and by the time I left work I was croaking like a frog from all the non-stop news updates.
The most awe-inspiring thing I ever saw was the birth of the Marion (IL) tornado back in '82, as we (my wife was a meteorologist) watched the rotation from the wall cloud spawn a funnel. The sun was shining down into it, and there was this glowing bowl of golden fury........then it grew a tail, the tail reached the ground, and the ugly stuff started. Before it was over ten people were dead, and I was on the phone giving news feeds for the next 48 hours from the radio station I worked at. This is a helicopter shot of the Ford dealership at IL Hwy's 57 and 64. My Program Director had bought a new 5-liter Mustang a week before, took it in for service, and it was eventually found under a pile of about 100 cars. Oops.
My apologies to the OP for the hijack, it took me an hour to find this photo, and I shudder when I think back to that day. I think my voice was heard on half the radio stations in the country, and by the time I left work I was croaking like a frog from all the non-stop news updates.
