London newspaper shows Nebraska weather

[franksolich]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334672/Jaw-dropping-image-enormous-supercell-cloud-Glasgow-Montana.html

Actually, the photographs were snapped in Montana, but for anyone in the Sandhills of Nebraska, there isn't anything unusual at all about these.

Eye of the storm: The jaw-dropping image of an enormous 'supercell' cloud

It looks like something from the film Independence Day.

But although it may seem like an alien mothership, this incredible picture is actually an impressive thunderstorm cloud known as a supercell.

Windswept dust and rain dominate the storm's centre while rings of jagged clouds surround the edge.

A flimsy tree in the foreground looks like a toy next to the magnificent natural phenomenon.....

This is why I've always been skeptical, scornful, of "climate change" and "global warming" militants, nearly all of whom live in crowded urban areas where everything's man-made, blocking out nature.

Anyone who's ever been in a storm--snow, sleet, rain, ice, whatever--out in the Sandhills of Nebraska sees how greatly enormous and powerful Nature is, compared with puny man.

Man ain't nuthin', compared with Nature.

[Evil_Conservative]

Very scary looking, but beautiful at the same time.

[Odin's Hand]

I was a mere hundreds of yards to a tornado that dropped and eventually turned into an F4 back in 2004. I believe I was the first one to see it as I was driving south. I had that car, 454 V-8 Chevy, floorboarded while I hit the backside inflow of the supercell. I wasn't doing more than 50 mph for a solid 1/2 mile or so.

[longview]

I didn't see anything unusual about it either (says the one from the high plains).  I only hate those when I'm 10 to 12 miles from the barn and traveling along the same path.

I think those are pretty.

[Wineslob]

Awesome pictures, and this Cali boy has never seen anything like it.

[IassaFTots]

I love weather.  Seen a few of those clouds in my day.  In Montana, Kansas, Texas, but the worst was going to Hallett, OK.  No where to stop or pull over, just keep on driving.  .

[cavegal]

Those are beautiful photos.

[Randy]

They mention several times in the article that he felt he could stand in the center and look up to the eye of God. He's been in the center of one before because you can look all the way up to the top of the clouds anvil. If you're brave/stupid you can stand there and watch the lightning pop around the top and then crawl its way around the inside of the cloud and hit something on the ground.
I saw that many several times in the sandhills of West Texas & Eastern New Mexico.

[bijou]

Incredible pics, must be amazing to see that up close(ish).

[IassaFTots]

They mention several times in the article that he felt he could stand in the center and look up to the eye of God. He's been in the center of one before because you can look all the way up to the top of the clouds anvil. If you're brave/stupid you can stand there and watch the lightning pop around the top and then crawl its way around the inside of the cloud and hit something on the ground.
I saw that many several times in the sandhills of West Texas & Eastern New Mexico.

I never did that, but I have looked up in the eye of a hurricane.  Hurricane David.  My parents woke me up to show me.  That was cool.

[MrsSmith]

I love stormclouds, in pics and in real life...until they turn a stomach-turning green.      I've only seen it twice, but that was way more than I wanted!! 

[BattleHymn]

I love stormclouds, in pics and in real life...until they turn a stomach-turning green.      I've only seen it twice, but that was way more than I wanted!! 

I'm with you there.  We get that type about 4-5 times a year, always in the summer.  The whole atmosphere seems to get a green tint at the same time.  I've yet to see that type of 'green tint' without also hearing about a funnel cloud or touchdown from the same storm. 

[MrsSmith]

I'm with you there.  We get that type about 4-5 times a year, always in the summer.  The whole atmosphere seems to get a green tint at the same time.  I've yet to see that type of 'green tint' without also hearing about a funnel cloud or touchdown from the same storm. 

We once lived in a little trailer...watched those green clouds pass overhead and the funnel hit 5 blocks later.  That shade has literally made me sick ever since.    That green just does not belong in the sky!! 

[Thor]

I never did that, but I have looked up in the eye of a hurricane.  Hurricane David.  My parents woke me up to show me.  That was cool.

I was almost in Hurricane David, myself. Fortunately, it went West of me and hit Hampton Roads Va instead of Norfolk & Va Beach. That was back in '79. I lost my car keys while down on the Outer Banks Peninsula of NC right after Hurricane David blew through.

[IassaFTots]

I was almost in Hurricane David, myself. Fortunately, it went West of me and hit Hampton Roads Va instead of Norfolk & Va Beach. That was back in '79. I lost my car keys while down on the Outer Banks Peninsula of NC right after Hurricane David blew through.

I was in Ft. Lauderdale.  My Dad was in Woodbridge, VA, and the winds from David blew a tree down, that crushed his VW.  I always thought that was cool.  The same storm I saw did damage to someone I knew 100's of miles away.

[ColonialMarine0431]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1334672/Jaw-dropping-image-enormous-supercell-cloud-Glasgow-Montana.html

Actually, the photographs were snapped in Montana, but for anyone in the Sandhills of Nebraska, there isn't anything unusual at all about these.

This is why I've always been skeptical, scornful, of "climate change" and "global warming" militants, nearly all of whom live in crowded urban areas where everything's man-made, blocking out nature.

Anyone who's ever been in a storm--snow, sleet, rain, ice, whatever--out in the Sandhills of Nebraska sees how greatly enormous and powerful Nature is, compared with puny man.

Man ain't nuthin', compared with Nature.

Agreed. Mother Nature was here long before Humans showed up, and Mother Nature will be here long after we've gone the way of the Dodo bird.