2020 Storm Photo Contest

This is beautiful, terrifying, awesome, amazing, mystical, magical stuff. Here's the winner.

And there is more:
www.stormphotocontest.com...

a reply to: Phage

It's amazing how small one can feel in the presence of the casual yet powerful forces of nature.

Great photos, all of them. With such a range, it would have been a real challenge to decide which of them to call the best.

originally posted by: Phage

I love this photo - couldn't resist captioning it...



On the road out of Kansas, headed for the Oz Express...
...next stop: Somewhere over the rainbow!

a reply to: lostgirl

Perfect.
I hadn't thought of that. It's so obvious in retrospect.

a reply to: Phage

I can't say that I would look for a pot of gold anywhere near that rainbow.
Star and flag!

a reply to: Phage

Stand in front of a tornado has always been in my bucket list. Just like that photo.

Something we can agree on! Storms are incredible and beautiful. When I was young (and still to this day) I would look forward to when we would get thunderstorms, especially the ones in mid to late summer. The thunder and the lightning marveled me and gave me a great interest in weather. I even got weather and cloud field guides to study it. I have noticed that here in the northeast we have had much less thunder storms and the severity of the storms has lessened, especially the last 10 years Or so.

a reply to: BerkshireEntity

Yes, exactly the same with me! Especially thunder and lightning are awe inspiring and makes me feel "energised" for want of a better word.

My most frightening experience was a few years ago. During a thunderstorm storm I witnessed the strangest type of lightning. I'll call it ball lightning, but I know there's a different term for it. The sky lit up like a normal lightning strike, but instead of discharging to the ground, it just exploded in air. It was the loudest explosion I'd ever heard and the light emitted was like a second sun.

It all happened very close to where I was and it knocked out the power grid in the neighbourhood. Its must have had an EMP like effect... Terrifying!