Saturday, November 26, 2011

Storm-chasing photographer captures stunningly haunting images of lightning skies and cloud collisions rolling across the U.S.


These are the stunningly haunting images of storms lighting up skies stretching across the Midwest.

Photographer Mike Hollingstead has been chasing lightning, fog and supercell phenomena rolling through the U.S. for years.
A collage of his work shows cloud collisions spitting out lightning and walls of fog billowing across the sky in spooky formations that would send most running for cover.


The sky glows in deep hues of blue and purple in one photo, taken on June 17, 2009, that shows an amazing supercell storm spitting out lightning during twilight as it nears truck stop on I-80 in York, Nebraska.
Only half-an-hour earlier this storm was producing a large tornado near Aurora, Nebraska. 
In another picture an intense high precipitation supercell storm moves south in the Nebraska Sand Hills south of Valentine on July 13, 2009.


Very low, long and fat inflow clouds stretch east of the storm above a strange green sky. A tornado warning at the time spoke of baseball-sized hail and winds in excess of 100mph that produced one  small tornado. 
Traffic heading north up Highway 83 would be driving right into the storm's forward flan, which contained the giant hail and intense rain, but incredibly, Mr Hollingstead managed to capture its beauty.
Another cloud moving over south-east Nebraska on August 9, 2009, shows a 'whale's mouth' - formed by turbulent deep blue cloud masses.




In a photo taken on May 28, 2004, a long-lived supercell storm in an extraordinary formation moves across north-east Nebraska, almost following highway 12 from Niobrara down to Sioux City.
Another shows a fog storm rolling over the Badlands of South Dakota on June 18, 2008. Mr Hollingstead also uploaded video footage of the storm on YouTube.

The colliding outflow from morning storms creates a vertical wall of clouds, which rapidly engulf the badlands terrain with high winds and near zero visibility. 




Within a couple of minutes though, the sky was clear.


 











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1 Penyokong CHELSEA:

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