Storm Art

[lavamat_jon]

Whilst outside in the garden yesterday taking pictures of a Bobload on the line (which will later be submitted to the Bobload thread), I managed to catch stormclouds forming more or less instantly.

This first picture was taken at about 3.20 or 3.25pm:

 

[lavamat_jon]

A few minutes later, at about 3.30pm (and after hurrying to get the washing in!) this picture was taken:

 

[lavamat_jon]

I took this photo at 3.35pm, out of my bedroom window. As you can see it became very dark and all the streetlamps had turned on. LAter on in the storm, the street flash flooded, a house down the road from us was struck by lightning, and the barbeque we planned for relatives yesterday evening was done using the oven!!!

Hope everyone else likes these pictures, I find them very arty & storms and severe weather are another interest of mine. (I'm one of the few crazy people who would love to see a tornado and go storm chasing!)

Jon

 

[tolivac]

WOW!! You get some rather feirce storms out there!

 

[perc-o-prince]

(I'm one of the few crazy people who would love to see a

Jon,

You're not alone. Severe weather fascinates me as well. I would love to see a tornado but only one that didn't do harm to people such as one that was in open land.

Great pics!!!

Rich

 

[drmitch]

Very good photography! Glad you got the laundry off the line!

 

[pulsator]

One of my mom's coworker's brothers took this picture, he's a photographer but it still amazes me that nature can look like this...

 

[westytoploader]

Very neat pictures! Thunderstorms are interesting to me as well, especially when the sky literally opens up and a HEAVY downpour of rain accompanies it! LOVE those horrendously dark skies!

Jon, those pictures remind me of how it was here yesterday as well. The weather went from good to horrible in less than an hour; one minute it was sunny and unbearably hot, and the next it was pitch-black outside, windy, and getting ready to rain. The joke goes that if you're in Texas and you don't like the way the weather is now, wait 30 minutes and it will change!

 

[gansky1]

Come to the midwest, Jon! You'll have lots of exciting weather to chase and storms to photo - maybe even a tornado will chase you!

Ask Mike (chestermikeuk) about the storm they drove back to Minneapolis through from the convention last year - quite thrilling I recall. Who wants dry underpants??

 

[jmm63]

speaking of storm art.....

We had a rare and violent storm come through Verona and Montclair NJ this past Tuesday. The damage to 100 year old trees and statley homes was bad, but no one was injured, thank God. They are calling this a "micro-burst".. concentrated hurricane force winds in a 2 mile wide path.. I'm just calling it freakin SCAREY!

This is a pic of my friend Barb's 1 year old Jaguar XJ8, she NEVER parks it where it was when a tree landed on it.

 

[jmm63]

uprooted tree on the house right across the street from me

 

[jmm63]

the house right behind us

 

[jmm63]

around the corner

 

[jmm63]

across the street from me

 

[jmm63]

street behind us

 

[jmm63]

the end of our street

 

[jmm63]

uprooted tree's.. this particular house had 3 trees completley uprooted. Thank God they all missed the house.. except for 1 corner of the garage.

 

[whirlcool]

Wow! Those pics ARE dramatic!

Thanks for posting those Jim, they really show what can happen in micro-bursts, let alone a tornado!

 

[gansky1]

WOW - nobody was hurt, power comes back on and houses and cars can be fixed but I'll bet you want to shed a big crocodile tear for the damage and loss of all those beautiful trees.

We had a "convected" snow storm in 1997 that dumped 14" of heavy, wet snow on the city in mid-October. The trees still had a full canopy of leaves on them and almost every tree in the city had major damage - you can still see the scars today.