posted on Mar, 19 2007 @ 03:38 PM
The tornado shots are pretty normal for tornados, even the triple armed one. Tornados are about as unpredictable and devastating as anything on this
planet, and can show up fat, skinny, in triplicate, alone, in a swarm...all sorts of permutations.
The lightening next to the tornado again isn't at all unusual. It's simply electic voltage passing from cloud/ground to it's opposite. Most
tornado supercells are also intense thunder/lightening storms, as well as hail events. Nothing unusual there...except for the incredible photo.
As for the last shot, it's too pixelated for me to even see what's going on, let alone help explain it.
The third shot is a shot from beneath a dark cloud cover. It happens, usually with flat land thunderstorms, that they just sort of spread out and can
be amazingly black. Also keep in mind the way the camera's looking - the darker area might not be quite as dark as it seems, depending on direction,
aperture, shutter speed, film/digital/post processing, et cetera.
The fourth is a great capture - it's a missle of some sort being launched, and the bell shape is the missle exiting the local atmosphere and entering
low orbit (if I'm not mistaken). The bell shape is an example of both speed and weather conditions - higher humidity gives air "color" or
"shape" and if the conditions are exactly right, and the photographer is in exactly the right place, this phenom can be caught. There is a famous
shot of a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier, and it has a very similar sort of "skirt" or bell around it. Again, rare conditions, but not
unexplainable.
Hope that helps - great pictures, and amazing strength of the wondrous atmosphere we enjoy. Thanks for posting.
Regards-
Aimless