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Having nothing better to do, and not having had a storm around here for ages, I decided I'd watch this one out. Turned out to be quite a show ...and of course the camera and tripod came out! I ended up tsaying out from about 19:20 - 20:30... here are some pics... The clouds started to change to the North West A nice cloud formation Over the opposite side of the house looking south The dark clouds build up to the North West The front heads south, it looks very impressive in this shot More clouds pass over Then the rain! ...and some more! The visibily really dropped, quite heavy rain alsoNow the lightning shots! After having no juck getting a shot, I remembered that my cam could take 16 shots right after each other Here are the results... Hope you like the picsCheers Adam
Visit my website! www.trainweb.org/aussiepix/ Adam, TKW Reskinner, Australia Proud member of the Trailing CN SD60 Club
"Hold tight,feel the drivers bite,hear the whistle moan.Engine rockin' to the left and right,vibratin' in my bones.Once the locomotive steals your soul,you got a Casey Jones!"---Ian"Lemmy"Kilmister
Adam Spectacular shots! where was this? BTW that "nice cloud formation" is a sign of rotation in the thunderstorm indicating the very real posibilty of something ugly dropping out of said storm combined with that greenish yellow sky in the other shot can indicate tornadic conditions so keep alert in those conditions. Had an incident here in Illinois on Memorial Day weekend this year at a freinds house,just a gray wall approaching from the southwest(he lives about 30 min south of Joliet IL out in farm country) but since there wasn't much lighting we weren't too concerned(just some rain coming)well as the wall hit the house visibility dropped and the wind kicked up severely so I went to check from outside the garage and heard the roar(it does sound just like a freight train) and yelled back into the house for everyone to take shelter now(the tornado must have passed just south of the house,close enough to hear but well out of the damage path)after the storm passed we all went out to check and from the back side of the storm you could see the rotation so we determined that that "innocent" gray rain front was a wall cloud hanging so low that it hid the danger signs of the approaching super cell.Gary S
43 year old future curmudgen(Hey you kids get offa my lawn!!)
Looks like what we had on Friday. Some nasty storms!Killer shots dude!! Good Victorian summer! >Mike Forster< Perth, Western AustraliaMike.Forster.2005@gmail.com http://www.trainweb.org/aussiepix
Hope you like the picsCheers
