Wild weather

A vertical shot of the monster HP supercell that pummeled the open range north of Burwell, Nebraska, June 16, 2014. This storm had several rain-wrapped tornadoes earlier in the storm's lifecycle.

NOAA on Instagram: “Better weather forecasts coming your way: The #NOAA @NWS flagship weather model — the Global Forecast System (#GFS) — is undergoing a…”

Tornado near Mulvane, KS, 6/12/2004. See the rest at www.livejournal.com/users/busychild424/515061.html

NATURE GEOGRAPHY on Instagram: “My obsession with crazy storm clouds continues! I can kinda see a face in the first one, can you? Photos by @willeadesphotography…”

Tornado

Red sprites and blue jets are very high altitude upper atmospheric phenomena associated with thunderstorms. They have only recently been documented on camera. Red sprites are massive (as big as 20 km in size), but faint luminous flashes that appear directly above an active thunderstorm and coincide with powerful lightning strikes. Blue jets too are a high altitude optical phenomenon, but are different from sprites. They were first documented in 1994. Blue jets are optical ejections from the…

This is the scene of a massive hail storm in Oklahoma City in the heart of twister country. It’s a cause for concern to begin with, and quickly degenerated to the resemblance of a war zone. Holy moly! Incomings all over the place and the people were plain scared out of their wits, and rightfully

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What a year! Here's to 2012 being a more quiet and less destructive year.

A fantastic photograph twin twisters in Central Texas during Holloween Eve Flood of 2015.