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| Themes - Weather: | Storms - stormclouds, floods & damage | Winter: snow, ice and frost | Light: Rainbows, sundogs, noctilucent clouds, sunsets |
| STORM SUBCATEGORIES: | Thunderstorms |
Precipitation |
Flooding
and
damage |
Thunderstorms
Stormchasing, as is is rather inaccurately termed, is the art of
targeting and intercepting thunderstorms for photographic
purposes. It involves forecasting skills, real-time observations, an
intimate knowledge of the road-network, lots of patience
and a great deal of committment! These images show storms in all stages
of their lifecycle: convective updraughts boiling
up, funnel clouds, mature storms with attendant torrential downpours,
the low, evil looking gust-fronts that form as a storm
breaks and the strange, pendulous mammatus that forms on the underside
of a mature storm's anvil as cold air sinks down.
These are my favourites from Mid-Wales over the past few years, some
representing real "wow!" moments.
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Precipitation
Probably the trickiest thing to catch well - hence the low number of images. Even DSLRs hate rain. Lenses steam up, you have
to keep clearing your skylight filter and in general the results are rarely worth the trouble. These are included for completeness!
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Flooding and damage
Storm-damage is rarely photogenic but the aftermath of the 2006 Bow
Street Tornado, which I investigated for TORRO, provided
a few exceptions to this rule (top row). The row also includes a
freakish example of severe lightning-damage. Flooding can be more
photogenic with results occasionally verging on the abstract (bottom
row), though some of the best vantage-points can be hard to reach!
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