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Storm Over An Island

June 30th 2008 02:56

Amazing shot of a tornado forming right over this small island.
Not the place you would want to be at the moment!

*This image used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Weather Phenomena

May 9th 2008 13:17

Here are some amazing and unusual weather events that are rarely seen. You can see many more at listverse.com here.

Mammatus Clouds

St Elmo's Fire

Non-Aqueous (Animal) Rain

Ball lightning

Haloes

*These images used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Lightning at Sunset

March 12th 2008 13:12

There's something about a storm approaching in the fading light. The coloured sky, the rainbows, the contrasting lighting...enjoy!

Lightning in the fading light with bright colored sky

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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These pictures were taken in Versoix, a town near Geneva in Switzerland.
Very cold conditions, (-8 to -12 deg C, 10 deg F) combined with winds of over 100 km/hr (62 miles/hr) resulted in a spray that froze on anything that it touched! It took place in January 2005. The water is from Lake Geneva (Lake Léman). You can see more photos from the Ice Storm here.

Tree covered in Ice after a storm on Lake Geneva. Switzerland.

Everything covered in ice from frozen spray from lake Geneva in Switzerland.

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Burning Sky

November 28th 2007 05:20

Two spectacular pictures of a blood red sky over the coast of Southern California.

*These pictures used with permission from Damn Funny Pictures.

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Tornado Hits New York City

August 22nd 2007 06:08

As Bloomberg reports storms in the New York area on August 9th included a tornado that cut a 9-mile path through Staten Island and Brooklyn.

The twister, estimated to have winds of between 111-135 miles (179-217 kilometers) an hour, damaged the roofs of 11 homes in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn, and later tore off the roof of a car dealership at the corner of 66th Street and Fifth Avenue, the U.S. Weather Service said in a report on its Web site

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Tornados

August 8th 2007 12:17

Tornadogenesis is the process by which a tornado forms. There are many types of tornado, and each type of tornado can have several different methods of formation. Scientific study is ongoing, as some aspects of tornado formation remain a mystery.

Classical tornadoes are supercellular tornadoes, which have a recognizable pattern of formation." The cycle begins when a strong thunderstorm develops a rotating mesocyclone a few miles up in the atmosphere. As rainfall in the storm increases, it drags with it an area of quickly descending air known as the rear flank downdraft (RFD). This downdraft accelerates as it approaches the ground, and drags the rotating mesocyclone towards the ground with it. Storm relative helicity (SRH) has been shown to play a role in tornado development and strength. SRH is horizontal vorticity that is parallel to the inflow of the storm and is tilted upwards when it is taken up by the updraft, thus creating vertical vorticity

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Storms

July 13th 2007 12:38

A storm is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by strong wind, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation, such as ice (ice storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, hailstorm, etc).

Storms are created when a centre of low pressure develops, with a system of high pressure surrounding it. This combination of opposing forces can create winds and result in the formation of storm clouds, such as the cumulonimbus. Small, localized areas of low pressure can form from hot air rising off hot ground, resulting in smaller disturbances such as dust devils and whirlwinds

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Clouds

April 25th 2007 12:19

A cloud is a visible mass of condensed droplets or frozen crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body. The branch of meteorology in which clouds are studied is nephology.

The actual form of cloud created depends on the strength of the uplift and on air stability. In unstable conditions convection dominates, creating vertically developed clouds. Stable air produces horizontally homogeneous clouds. Frontal uplift creates various cloud forms depending on the composition of the front

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Glacier Retreat

February 8th 2007 03:48

One of the effects of global warming has been glacier retreat. The retreat of glaciers since 1850 has been rapid worldwide. The effect has been greatest since 1980, there has been a significant global warming which has led to glacier retreat becoming increasingly rapid and ubiquitous, so much so that many glaciers have disappeared and the existence of a great number of the remaining glaciers of the world is threatened.

Below are some photos of a retreating glacier, you can see it melting before your eyes! Some more pictures here
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Tornados

August 30th 2006 04:02

Tornadoes can come in many shapes, but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, with the narrow end touching the earth. Often, a cloud of debris encircles the lower portion of the funnel.
Tornadoes can be the most destructive storms on earth. Most have winds of 110 mph (175 km/h) or less, are approximately 250 feet (75 meters) across, and travel a mile (1.6 km) or more before dissipating. However, some tornadoes can have winds of more than 300 mph (480 km/h), be more than a mile (1.6 km) across, and stay on the ground for dozens of miles (more than 100 kilometers).
They have been observed on every continent except Antarctica; however, a significant percentage of the world's tornadoes occur in the United States

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Sydney Thunderstorm

August 7th 2006 02:51

In September, 2004 Sydney recorded total rainfall of 60mm, which was close to the historic September average of 69mm. It was however the wettest September in Sydney for 7 years and about a third of the month's rain came from thunderstorms. Sydney recorded 4 thunderstorms over 3 days during the month (above the average of 2 thunder days for September). On the 5th a thunderstorm produced widespread, mainly pea-size hail, accumulating to a depth of several centimetres on the ground in many suburbs. Canterbury recorded rainfall of 39mm during this storm, the highest daily suburban fall for the month. Below are photos from the severe thunderstorm on the 5th. There were further thunderstorms on the 19th which were also accompanied by hail, with reports of up to 3cm size hail at Kemps Creek, Blacktown and Newport.

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Gravity Waves

June 26th 2006 00:23

The following photos show the effect that gravity waves can have on cloud cover. An event like this is supposed to be quite rare.
If you're interested gravity waves are generated in the troposphere by frontal systems or by airflow over mountains. At first waves propagate through the atmosphere without affecting its mean velocity. But as the waves reach more rarefied air at higher altitudes, their amplitude increases, and nonlinear effects cause the waves to break. You can see some more photos here.

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Lightning Striking the Eiffel Tower

May 12th 2006 06:56

This is one of the earliest photos of lightning in an urban setting. It was taken on June 3rd, 1902 at 9:20pm.
It was taken by M. G. Loppé. Published in the Bulletin de la Société Astronomique de France (May, 1905). Original clipping here.

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