Lovely flying weather (pics)
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Could have been the nasty TS that belted Birmingham Uk recently.
These pictures have been doing the rounds recently and I have seen them touted as being of a storm in America, & also as a storm in Queensland!
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i have heard they were of the storm that Hit Bunbury this year and caused all the devastation......
but my gut feeling is they are from the US somewhere....
does anyone know much about these types of weather systems? tops etc? they look to me to be a totally different beast to a super cell.
but my gut feeling is they are from the US somewhere....
does anyone know much about these types of weather systems? tops etc? they look to me to be a totally different beast to a super cell.
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Been around a few times, it's not Bunbury doubt if its QLD, penny to a pound them's MidWest cornfields.
Doesn't matter where, mighty scary pics and a good place not to be near in your Ultralight.
Would love to see the radar pics there'd be a hook in there big enough to catch a whale.
Doesn't matter where, mighty scary pics and a good place not to be near in your Ultralight.
Would love to see the radar pics there'd be a hook in there big enough to catch a whale.
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Check these ones out, looking down on thunderstorms from space
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/cloud1.htm[URL=http://]
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/cloud1.htm[URL=http://]
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Copied and zoomed in on the photos. Looks like Woomea is correct - cornfields, and the cars and trucks in at least one photo are driving on the right hand side of the road. Could be Queensland if the drivers are chasing cane toads.
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that is actually Bunbury, the storms produced tornados and almost levelled the place.
My staff at the shop downloaded the first one off a media site and have it as a screen saver on some of the work PC's, and yeah wouldnt want to be anywhere near that cell in a light A/C. We caught the northrn cells of the front coming through and they were pretty nasty.
A couple of schools where blown away south of perth and another twister wreaked havok in Freo and Applecross!!
My staff at the shop downloaded the first one off a media site and have it as a screen saver on some of the work PC's, and yeah wouldnt want to be anywhere near that cell in a light A/C. We caught the northrn cells of the front coming through and they were pretty nasty.
A couple of schools where blown away south of perth and another twister wreaked havok in Freo and Applecross!!
that is actually Bunbury, the storms produced tornados and almost levelled the place.
These exact photos were emailed to me about 2 months before the Bunbury storms. If fact, the sender claimed they were from the WA Tropical Cyclone Ingrid (March 2005), but that was doubtful!
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Check this site out. Seems the photos may be of a storm in Iowa. You need to scroll past the dogs. Some spectacular storm photos.
http://extremeinstability.com/2004photos.htm
http://extremeinstability.com/2004photos.htm