Today began to feel like Spring Storms.
It's a little early, but heck we had thunder ice a few weeks ago, so anything is game.
Look above, the cold air is on the left and the hot air is on the right. In a few minutes after this picture was taken the lower cloud would have looked like a steam roller.
Someone who knew I was a geographer sent me these photographs.
I've tried to find them on the web, to attribute them to the original photographer.
No luck.
The are all wall clouds /meso cyclones. This one has a funnel on the ground that is about a quater of a mile wide.
These were taken, if I remember correctly, in Oklahoma and Texas during the May 1999 outbreaks.
One thing for sure when you see these outside your home, you better have a hole, the deeper the better, to crawl into.
If you see something like this you better be taking the picture from the door of you storm celler.
Just looking at the photographs make my gonads tingle.
If this one landed on you, you best not be there.
Thanks to whom ever sent these to me and especially to those that took them.
This is real theology.
3 comments:
I'm guessing those fearsome clouds are common place in 'tornado alley'. I was born/raised in upper midwest and recall keeping a weather eye out. One spring, as a high-schooler, a friend and I were
paddling a canoe down one of those
small upper Wisconsin rivers. It grew eerily warm and weirdly cloudy. As the skies turned uglier, we figured wind/hail, and looked for a place to shelter along the forested bank. We found a grassy alcove under a limestone
abutment, noted the wind coming and crawled under the inverted canoe. In the midst of the downpour and powerful wind, a large water snake crawled under our cozy shelter. We quickly proved that most humans are more
afraid of snakes than wallclouds;
left the reptile to it's shelter and canoed on down the stream soaked, hailed and windblown.
The joys of young manhood....
Fearsome clouds, yes, but not as pretty as these fearsome ones. Actually it is generally hard to see them in that they are low to the ground and generally "rain-wrapped".
Dr. ER is going to miss storm season. I will, too. She keeps saying we'll be in a better position to storm chase -- or "storm follow" as I prefer to call it -- but I don't know.
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