This swirl also formed fast and the colors were brighter than the picture shows. Being a Bay Area, CA native, I’d never experienced such weather and when people started throwing out words like “tornado”, I got a little nervous. Again, taken in June of 2009 outside Denver, CO.
submission from jellynotjam
This photo illustrates a current situation in Prague, Czech Republic. What you see there is smog, which we haven’t seen here in quite a few years, so it took us completely by surprise. When I was taking this photo, the sun shone like crazy through the fog, but it turned out that it was just a wish made by mind completely unaccustomed to such a situation. While we all know that this is a kind of a big problem, I can’t help myself but to find this strange beautiful.
(submission from lovingthealiens)
Lightning and tornado - from http://scienceavenger.blogspot.com/2009/04/lightning-tornado-photo.html
(submission from dennisswrdls)
Tree branches during Winter of 2010-2011 in Eastern Tennessee.
(Photo taken by Theresa Cox.)
(submission from beardycoxmilkshakeman)
snowflake
It FINALLY snowed here this week! Happy winter!
stratus clouds over inglefield bay in greenland, eight hundred miles south of the north pole.
Scientist Edson Ramirez was in for a surprise August 16 as he was studying glaciers in the Bolivian Andes: A large object fell from the sky, leaving a trail of smoke over the mountain peaks known as Huayna Potosí and Tuni Condoriri. Based on Ramirez’s picture, planetary scientist Rubber Munoz Sanchez, of the Max Schreier Planetarium in La Paz, told Reuters that he thinks the object was a meteor up to 20 inches (50 centimeters) wide.
no two snowflakes are the same, but all are hexagonal. the molecular shape of water causes this crystallization pattern.
A week after a 200-mile-an-hour (322-kilometer-an-hour) tornado destroyed much of Joplin, Missouri, a NASA satellite captured this false-color depiction of the destruction. In this image, vegetation is red, buildings are blue, and the tornado’s path is shown as a blue trail stretching from left to right.
a recent eruption of a Chile volcano causing an electric storm.
(submitted by experimentalteddybears)
The European Space Agency’s Paolo Nespoli took this image of lightning over Brazil as seen from the International Space Station in January 2011.
