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Fri Nov 19, 2010 1:54 pm

Photo thread: Amazing weather

I thought we already had a photo thread on this subject but I can't find it.

I'll start. From the Boston Globe:

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Another favorite from our resident black-ops stick Vick:

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Fri Nov 19, 2010 8:07 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

I took this picture last June or July from inside the house. The sun was just setting.
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Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:13 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

Here is a storm over the lake out my back window....
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Mon Nov 22, 2010 8:18 pm

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........and this is a similar bigger storm. :-)

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This computer stuff does NOT come easy..... :oops:
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Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:38 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

This month's (Nov-Dec 2010) Audubon Magazine has a whole writeup on supercells. Wow!!

Some days maybe it's better to be underground, wishing you were on the ground, than to be on the ground, wishing you were underground!

http://www.audubonmagazine.org/features ... llery.html
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Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:49 pm

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denalipilot wrote:This month's (Nov-Dec 2010) Audubon Magazine has a whole writeup on supercells. Wow!!


Wow is right.

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Mon Dec 27, 2010 4:48 pm

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Sydney to Hobart yacht race

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Mon Dec 27, 2010 5:27 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

A few more

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Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:11 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

Those are some awesome photos! Thanks for sharing guys.
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Mon Dec 27, 2010 6:18 pm

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great photos!!!!!! More please!!!!!!!!!!!! [-o< [-o<

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Sun Nov 25, 2012 3:03 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

I think this is what Zzz ment?
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http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1211/rainierclouds_thompson_3008.jpg
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Thu Jan 24, 2013 2:58 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

I'd hate to be prepping to take off out of this valley...

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Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:05 pm

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Nice shot. Sure would be fun to use that as a strip!
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Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:10 pm

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Terry wrote:Nice shot. Sure would be fun to use that as a strip!


Totally! Apparently it's in Tibet. Another from the same photographer:

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Thu Jan 24, 2013 3:19 pm

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A shot from this past weekend. So far I have just over 23 hours in my training and I was on a solo practice flight to several local runways. I was on my way to the last one when this fog bank appeared and started flowing down over an entire mountain range. The cealing was around 5000 feet and then this showed up a few hundred feet off the ground all the way up to 1500. In this picture the airport I was trying to make it back to was off the nose to the right and just under that thin strip of fog and that fog was moving very fast. I thought I might have to head south to another airstrip and wait it out, but by the time I got in the pattern there was a big enough break to land safely. It wasnt probably a big deal, but at this stage in my training it was a first for me to see how quickly things can change.

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Wed Jan 01, 2014 12:40 pm

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Saw this today, reminded me of this thread.

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Wed Jan 01, 2014 5:32 pm

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In August I landed back at home just as this was moving in. A short while later, all hell broke loose. :shock:
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Wed Jan 01, 2014 6:19 pm

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My nightmare... a tornado at night.

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Wed Jan 01, 2014 7:34 pm

Re: Photo thread: Amazing weather

Check out Caleb Elliot, www.wx-pilot.com. He is a storm chaser. He chases tornados.....with a 172. #-o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj8hye2k ... C-sEL6iibE
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