Tag: thunderstorm

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  • 5 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching

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    A single, silhouetted cloud at the left of the frames is absolutely dwarfed in comparison to very active electrical storm. It grows rapidly as it nears the point of view. At lower right, the palm trees are by the side of the road, which lights from cars pass by rapidly.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds and 2 frames.

  • 1 of 5 | Night lightning illuminates approaching…

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    Ominous, towering, coming towards the point of view. These night clouds, partly shrouded by mid and high-level clouds, would not seem so intimidating if they are not flashing with cloud-to-cloud lightning- different from heat or sheet lightening, cloud-to-cloud lightening is full-power energy release, only it never touches the ground. That’s the main difference in the name of this versus cloud-to-ground. The city orange lights illuminate stratus and silhouette the growing clouds which appear to light up from within, naturally strong light pollution from a large city.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    18 seconds and 13 frames.

  • Over red rocks and foothills of Colorado, a storm…

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    …builds in the early day’s blue sky. A rock feature of sharp relief on the far left of the frame borders the foothills of the mountains, where Pike’s Peak is fully cloaked in growing lower clouds. A hazy morning near noon, the near landscape is cultivated greenery and roadways with signs of people walking around. The far view shows green forests and hills spanning into a cloudy horizon in Colorado.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    11 seconds.

  • Dark rain cloud obscures the last direct daylight…

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    …behind it and the mountains it rains on below. Crepuscular rays through thick cloud cover openings shifting rapidly on the mountains.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    22 seconds and 17 frames.

  • Building distant thunderstorm w/ some other random…

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    … water vapor as mist obscuring around a massive storm building in the midday sun. An original, recently remastered time-lapse of the sky with clouds.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds.

  • Gold storm with majestic mammatus shifts on sunset…

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    …over ocean time-lapse. Intricate and delicate, the underside of these clouds are illuminated minutes after the sun has set to the observer. How is this? The sun is below the horizon to the observer, but not to the sky above. At that moment, you would still see the sun if in an airplane at that height. You would be in its light, as are these clouds. Since these clouds are attached to a storm, their altitude could in fact be 30,000 ft or more. This would make sense, due to the low movement of the delicate parts of the cloud, which would have frozen droplets. Some lower clouds that make up lower thunderstorm bodies have a mix of frozen droplets, gaseous vapor, and liquid.

    On a sliver of ocean with distant palm trees silhouetted far away, another younger storm is at the right of the lower frame portion. Blue sky persists in an area that homes other colorful clouds at higher altitudes of 45000 feet, or about 15000 m. The sun sets and the ‘mammatus’ clouds from the storm redden.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    25 seconds and 10 frames.

  • Storm grows in the deep blue-sky of a tropical climate

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    Surely and steadily, the white mass of warm water vapor grows and spreads out in the typical garden variety daytime storm of a tropical climate. SKU/clip number: DAY339
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    15 seconds.

  • Very dark thunderstorm rolls into the late afternoon over Canyonlands desert

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    A clip divided by an exposure adjustment. The storm (right)moves into view as the daylight wanes, and the desert landscape with its red clay dims. In the distance three sharply pointed hills have eroded to the point where one tiny peak stands out on each mound, rock piles evenly spread around from crumbling.
    Time-lapse length (30 fps):
    7 seconds and 21 frames.