I was in meeting of Finnish stormchasers and we watched this:
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That's what I would call as hardcore!

I recommend it for everyone interested in weather.

Little "hard" rain?
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BTW, "golfball"hails hitting car make very nice sound.

This hook looks so good...
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What comes to your mind from this? (esp. second pic)
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In some way greenhouse effects sounds good... it would be nice to see this kind of supercells in Finland!
On the other hand if greenhouse effect affects ocean current... even small slowing of Golfstream could make Finland much colder than today.

Those are some amazing pictures. I've got some nice supercell pics somewhere...I'll see if I can dig them up.

Cameron

Don't know how I missed those. Those are absolutely beautiful pictures.

Ya ive visited mike's website a bunch of times. www.extremeinstability.com

Those are very cool pictures.


Each and every one of them looks like its gonna hurt. lol.

Those pictures are beautiful in the same way a stealth bomber can be beautiful.

E-T : Those pictures are just awesome. Im sure they dont do the real thing justice. I saw one tornado in my lifetime - the thrill and excitement combined with terror is certainly a rush to say the least. I think I understand why we have "stormchasers". Excellent post bro.

Who act like they would have some "cross linked wires" in head because they want to get to that best possible place to see storm while ordinary people would take cover and try to get as far of it as possible.
Is that what you meant?

Yeah, I belong to that group... Seeing this kind of storm would be really nice. (but outside cloud... you won't see much anything when you're under raining part)
www.myrskyharrastajat.fi.../view&id=114


And here we have perfect place for photographing thunderstorm... notice powerline coming towards on right side.
www.famon.org...


Here's very good site with gallery of cloud forms cataloged according to their type.
www.weather-photography.com...


PS. There's nothing like downburst for getting rid of mosquitos and lighting hits to 0.5 to 2 km distance give best "surround efects" you can ever hear.

Okay, here's those scanned newspaper photos I promised in Unusual/Extreme weather thread.


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Yesterday newspaper told that fixing that road and other roads there took ~2000 tons of gravel.

Awesome pics. Those clouds are crazy looking, the road damage, wow!.

Troy