Wild weather

NOAA on Instagram: “Better weather forecasts coming your way: The #NOAA @NWS flagship weather model — the Global Forecast System (#GFS) — is undergoing a…”

Funnel, wall, shelf, scud clouds...pretty awesome!!

A vertical shot of the monster HP supercell that pummeled the open range north of Burwell, Nebraska, June 16, 2014. This storm had several rain-wrapped tornadoes earlier in the storm's lifecycle.

Red sprites and blue jets are very high altitude upper atmospheric phenomena associated with thunderstorms. They have only recently been documented on camera. Red sprites are massive (as big as 20 km in size), but faint luminous flashes that appear directly above an active thunderstorm and coincide with powerful lightning strikes. Blue jets too are a high altitude optical phenomenon, but are different from sprites. They were first documented in 1994. Blue jets are optical ejections from the…

Wild weather has rolled into Sydney just before 6pm on Saturday, with a spectacular lightening show and ear deafening thunder rocking the harbour city.

A photograph shows two men standing on a road in front of a tornado in Oklahoma in 1898.

Meet the man who chases the storms across the US Midwest every spring and summer – taking jaw-dropping photographs of nature’s power.

LIGHTNING AND TORNADOS

Strong wind and huge swell batter the cliffs at Diamond Bay in Vaucluse in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Picture: Jakob De Zwart

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