ASTRO: No astro, bad weather (so OT freaky storm/front photograph)

"Shawn" wrote in message
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TheCroW wrote:
Bad, bad weather for a while now here in Holland, so no looking at the
nightskies here.

Yesterday was the worst: (and here comes the OT part ;-) ) I was
looking out my windows, the sky was black, humidity high and high
temperatures ... and then suddenly this monster came rolling towards
here. Don't know the English for this kind of formation but things were
really swirling in and out the cloud. Only after this passed there was a
VERY heavy rain.
The whole thing was too big to capure in 1 shot, so I took 3 and stiched
them together. Did some work on it to get some details from the
cloud/front. It was very impressive (and freaky) to see it roll and
develope .... maybe not special when you live in Tornado Alley but for
here it is special.
The photograph is taken from my appartment, overlooking the centre of
Haarlem, city near Amsterdam.


Nice picture! Looks like something from the movie "Independence Day" :-)
Lots more similar pics from the American west here (I'm not affiliated, I
just like the site):
http://www.extremeinstability.com/2004.htm


Shawn

That Nebraska supercell has the best developed structure I've ever seen in
a thunderstorm. Amazing.

George

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:23:29 +0200, "TheCroW"
wrote:

Yesterday was the worst: (and here comes the OT part ;-) ) I was looking
out my windows, the sky was black, humidity high and high temperatures ...
and then suddenly this monster came rolling towards here. Don't know the
English for this kind of formation but things were really swirling in and
out the cloud. Only after this passed there was a VERY heavy rain.

I'd call that a squall line.

Bud
--
The night is just the shadow of the Earth.

"TheCroW" wrote
....
Bad, bad weather for a while now here in Holland, so no looking at the
nightskies here.......

Menno, et al

The weather is not any better here in the Northeast USA. The only clear
weather we've had for the past 3 or 4 weeks has been after mid-night during
the work-week. I don't even have any old image data to process (except for a
few poor moon shots).

George N

that's beautiful!


"TheCroW" wrote in message
...
Bad, bad weather for a while now here in Holland, so no looking at the
nightskies here.

Yesterday was the worst: (and here comes the OT part ;-) ) I was
looking out my windows, the sky was black, humidity high and high
temperatures ... and then suddenly this monster came rolling towards here.
Don't know the English for this kind of formation but things were really
swirling in and out the cloud. Only after this passed there was a VERY
heavy rain.
The whole thing was too big to capure in 1 shot, so I took 3 and stiched
them together. Did some work on it to get some details from the
cloud/front. It was very impressive (and freaky) to see it roll and
develope .... maybe not special when you live in Tornado Alley but for
here it is special.
The photograph is taken from my appartment, overlooking the centre of
Haarlem, city near Amsterdam.

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Not if you're under it! Then it is downright scary. Living in the
woods makes it even worse.

We get one or two a year here. It means repairs to house, you hope the
boat survives and you spend the next day or two working with neighbors
cutting up trees so you can reach the road. Several days later you have
power again. But until you clear the road the power company can't even
get in to work on the lines.

Rick

Richard Crisp wrote:
that's beautiful!


"TheCroW" wrote in message
...

Bad, bad weather for a while now here in Holland, so no looking at the
nightskies here.

Yesterday was the worst: (and here comes the OT part ;-) ) I was
looking out my windows, the sky was black, humidity high and high
temperatures ... and then suddenly this monster came rolling towards here.
Don't know the English for this kind of formation but things were really
swirling in and out the cloud. Only after this passed there was a VERY
heavy rain.
The whole thing was too big to capure in 1 shot, so I took 3 and stiched
them together. Did some work on it to get some details from the
cloud/front. It was very impressive (and freaky) to see it roll and
develope .... maybe not special when you live in Tornado Alley but for
here it is special.
The photograph is taken from my appartment, overlooking the centre of
Haarlem, city near Amsterdam.

--
Menno
=====================
My 3D Art can be seen on
http://www.3dart4u.com
http://tinyurl.com/c8g96 (3DCommune)
http://brycetest.3dart4u.com (Bryce Speed Test)
http://wallpaper.3dart4u.com (3D and other wallpapers)
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"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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Not if you're under it! Then it is downright scary. Living in the woods
makes it even worse.

We get one or two a year here. It means repairs to house, you hope the
boat survives and you spend the next day or two working with neighbors
cutting up trees so you can reach the road. Several days later you have
power again. But until you clear the road the power company can't even
get in to work on the lines.

that reminds me of hurricanes I experienced growing up on the Texas Gulf
Coast. Usually power is out for about 7-10 days and it is hot as hell and
very humid: and you get to cut down trees, clear roads, repair roofs, fences
etc, all with the sun beating down in the late summer/early fall.



Rick

Richard Crisp wrote:
that's beautiful!


"TheCroW" wrote in message
...

Bad, bad weather for a while now here in Holland, so no looking at the
nightskies here.

Yesterday was the worst: (and here comes the OT part ;-) ) I was
looking out my windows, the sky was black, humidity high and high
temperatures ... and then suddenly this monster came rolling towards
here. Don't know the English for this kind of formation but things were
really swirling in and out the cloud. Only after this passed there was a
VERY heavy rain.
The whole thing was too big to capure in 1 shot, so I took 3 and stiched
them together. Did some work on it to get some details from the
cloud/front. It was very impressive (and freaky) to see it roll and
develope .... maybe not special when you live in Tornado Alley but for
here it is special.
The photograph is taken from my appartment, overlooking the centre of
Haarlem, city near Amsterdam.

--
Menno
=====================
My 3D Art can be seen on
http://www.3dart4u.com
http://tinyurl.com/c8g96 (3DCommune)
http://brycetest.3dart4u.com (Bryce Speed Test)
http://wallpaper.3dart4u.com (3D and other wallpapers)
=====================
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Richard Crisp wrote:
"Rick Johnson" wrote in message
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Not if you're under it! Then it is downright scary. Living in the woods
makes it even worse.

We get one or two a year here. It means repairs to house, you hope the
boat survives and you spend the next day or two working with neighbors
cutting up trees so you can reach the road. Several days later you have
power again. But until you clear the road the power company can't even
get in to work on the lines.


that reminds me of hurricanes I experienced growing up on the Texas Gulf
Coast. Usually power is out for about 7-10 days and it is hot as hell and
very humid: and you get to cut down trees, clear roads, repair roofs, fences
etc, all with the sun beating down in the late summer/early fall.

Hurricanes aren't a problem up here! Tornados are weaker (usually) than
in Nebraska where I lived until a couple years ago and storms like this
one are far less common but living deep in the woods they are a lot more
trouble! I had to design the roof to survive them. So used steel
rather than wood even though it isn't all that big, 17'x 12'.

Rick