News DetailIncredible lightning photos from Darwin, Austrailia -- StormscapesDarwin.com
Posted At: November 17, 2007 @ 12:42 PM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: General
Here are some INCREDIBLE lightning shots from Mike O'Neill of Darwin, Australia...You can find more of his work at his website, StormscapesDarwin.com. The Tropics of Northern Australia probably have some of the best lightning displays in the world during the rainy season(s), as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone sags south to through the area. Australia also averages around two category 5 tropical cyclones per year! Enjoy the pictures!
Those pics are incedible.
Holy @%^% That's Insane!!! I saw his pictures on google awhile ago! They're incredible!! I'm going for those kind of pictures next summer!!!
wow ace pics!!! there great who ever took them is good....
I know its only a See Text but i called Southern Texas on Thursday
Posted By Matt | November 15, 2007 @ 6:11 PM #
I dont know Donny it looks like the forecast was downgraded from yesterday i have looked at the recent models in a while so maybe ill do that know and voice my opinion on next week.
And also if Saturday in Southern Texas looks ok but lacking moisture for severe weather.
Posted By Matt | November 15, 2007 @ 6:26 PM #
Donny im more interested on the weekend for Soutern Texas i dont know but the CAPE is going to be strong. The cap might be an issue but other then that i not really sure.
Those pics are awesome!! AAAAAA!
You called it Matt... we'll see what plays out. But I agree, Thursday is looking pretty good.
yea those photos are nice i wish i could get that kind of lighting in my town
ooo yea and i saw a tornado show dec 11 on twister sisters on we channel my mom had on if anyone knew
Slow weather day..... actually, it's a slow "everything" day.... oh well.
Hey guys whats going on??
ah me et has gone really slow, well me comp has getting annoyed lol
the temp here is at 44 f, where is it where everyone else is then??
Yeah..It's really boring here. Cloudy and 1 degree. I miss lightning! I really would love to Have Spring in the U.S, Summer in Canada, Fall in Australia!
WOW that must be sheet lightning!
That would be a great place to live Kenny lol
Ill get my article finished tomorrow..... too slow today lol
Man this was been a slow day today. I thought Southern Texas might get someething but i was wrong.
My site is now done!
http://www.freewebs.com/mesovortex/
First- reed- thanks for sharing those lightning pictures- awesome- and matt-as i sit her looking at models and chowing on some friend eggplant-first thing i look for is how much sb cape would be available attm- looking at that- i cannot find a 500 j/kg reading untill i reach southern arkansas- and northeastern texas/louisiana- next thing i look for is 0-1 km helicty around 150 and then 0-3 km helicty around 250+ unfortunatly it only shows it till sunday not where i want it to be- next thing i look for is wind energy at 250 mb and 850 mb- at 250 mb- winds are around 60-80 knots as for north in western ky- at 850 mb- only around 25 knots- next thing i look for is temperatures- there going to be around the upper 60s in ky- up to the low 70s in ark./louisiana- next thing i look for is dewpoints- a dewpoint of 55 or more is suffiencent for severe weather this time of year-i just don't see that happening
Were do u find the temperature and dewpoint for those days.
nc pics
matt for temp and dewpoint i use http://www.stormchaser.niu.edu/machine/fcstsound.html
and for all else i use http://weather.cod.edu/forecast/
Hey thanks Donny for the advice about what to look for to predict storms. thanks.
Those pics are sick!! Great job!! one of these days, I'll be able to do that!! Man those are awesome!! 48888
So ... it looks like "Darwin" has caught up with tornadovideos.net afterall. :D
Fantastic photos!
(I want an award for "clever comment of the year" for that, by the way. :D :D :D)
Its not hard to video tape something like that and turn it into a picture.
But if not i gotta have quick ass hands to pull that off.
Heidi I throught that I had that LOL don't u remebere when I said WOW go greese lighning!
I have alot of plans for next summer!! I think I'm going to make a little show with my friend. There's StormChasers, That's 1 hour long. I think I'll make one next summer on Bike Chasers, 30 minutes long.
your welcome matt- anything you want to know- you can ask me, reed, or anyone else i know i like helping people- but earlier- those were just a few of the things i look for- you also have to look for backing winds, see if t-storms are going to be surface based or elevated, theres other things to consideral also- such as how much cloudiness is going to hold temperatures down- but what is very interesting to me- during the tri-state tornado- that the tornado formed behind the font- and it was moving to fast it actually outran ran the front and gained intensity
Caleb, you're right. Maybe we can call it a tie?? ;)
Kenny I have a bike chaser to but he dos'nt live in my neighborhood his name is justin
Good ida heidi LOL
I would've been a bike chaser, if I didn't have my mom grounding me for it constantly. lol. Course, now I have a set of slightly faster wheels... ;)
Clever Heidi, clever... but I think it's a tie, just to be fair.
Ya Kenny has 2 wheels(hopefully) and you have 4 wheels that go alot faster then Kennys 2 wheels.
Anyways guys im out for the night going to eat dinner and watch my Leafs lose to Ottawa tonight.
What's going on out there guys and gals?
Gotta go parents can be a pain
Not much here AJ!! just cleaning house and peeking in on the blog!!
Same here, same here. Cooking dinner and checking the computer. It's the only real multi-tasking I'm good at. lol.
Beautiful pictures, brillant clarity.....
I guess I"ll be back later!
awesome pics! I wonder were they taken by a photo camera or a video camera?
TORNADO WARNING!!!!!!!!!! out of san antonio- has a nice couplet
Heidi! I dont get it! anyways darwin is my hero. theory of adaptation by natural selection. hail to science :P
nice one donny, we got rotation! any livestreams?
not that i know of cors- but what i can do is post a quick image of the couplet
awesome Don. go for it!
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/Tornadomaster22/sanantoniovelocity.jpg
unfortunantly the warning just expired
Greece is getting hammered today also! they were/are in a mod risk! (keep an eye on youtube greece)
http://www.estofex.org/
nice one donny! thx
Nice job Donny! At least someone got some action! lol.
yeah well it certainly aint in arkansas lol- ands looks to me rotation sure is increasing-but this t-storm also put down 2-3 inchs of rain in an hour- so you gotta wonder if this tornado- if it still on the ground is it rain-wrapped
anyone in here ever felt the buzz of lightning? I did :D not in this shot but that day,,,I felt it go right through my roof, ofcourse i only got a small shock but ive electrocuted myself once b4 so I now the feeling very intimate. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9QQiR7SziU
How good is the rotation in it Donny? If it's rain-wrapped, it should show up on radar as such.
AJ check out greece its getting annihilated.
http://estofex.org/cgi-bin/polygon/showforecast.cgi?lightningmap=yes&fcstfile=2007111806_200711162045_2_stormforecast.xml
purple is lightning strikes
max inbound and outbounds are both at 69 aj
Holy crap Cors!! aljhflkjhfas! That's when you definitely stay inside, and don't touch any metal! Dang.
"If I were in a severe lightning storm I'd grab my ankles and stick my butt in the air..."
What movie is this quote from? ^^^ lol.
Hmm... it's pretty even Donny.... are there any spotters on this? If it is truly wrapped in precip, a good spotter can point that out. There might be something still there...
lol aj, my fav movie quote:
where is my honda?
sorry baby I had to crash that honda.
whois motorcycle is that?
its a chopper baby?
whois chopper is that?
its zed's
whois zed?
zed's dead baby, zed's dead
i have no idea if there is- but theres the latest velocity image and vad winds:
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/Tornadomaster22/sanantoniovelcity2.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/Tornadomaster22/sanantoniovadwinds.jpg
lol. That's pretty good. Now if I knew what movie that's off of... ;)
Donny. ^^^^ I think this might help answer your question of there being something on the ground.
http://i3.tinypic.com/7x3s5fs.png
aj: you feel that sting big boy? that's pride fucking with ya! (pardon my french)
hahahahahahaha.
thats another movie quote aj...just to clear things up ;)
crap the drunken brits are tearing down my street! anyone wanna see livestream drunken brits? lol let me know I hook it up...lol
Drunken Brits? Are you sure Tim isn't there? lol jk.
What's happened to the situation in Texas?
well no matter- only warning i see with this cell is a flash flood warning
nah its prolly james... lol
hahaha. Who knows Cors? ;)
It's died down then Donny? OK, now I can breathe. lol. rain-wrapped scenarios are dicey, and get me on edge.
no aj it didnt- its still going strong and just picked up a tvs
Crap! Now I see it. Someone needs to get on it I think, so as to clear up all the confusion. lol.
looks to be heading for houston(we got a problem)
haha.......Cors. Pulp fiction Great movie, werid, but great.
Uh oh..... *goes to check NOAA
That's what movie that's from?! How come I missed that?! I love that movie. AARGH!
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/Tornadomaster22/sanantoniocomposite.jpg
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc106/Tornadomaster22/sanantoniovelocity3.jpg
there ya are aj
There's no tornado warning out for it... the NWS office must be waiting on something bigger.
bye that time it'll likely be to late aj
Yeah, A.J. Bruce is haliarious in it.
Probably. Judging by the history, I'd bet it wouldn't last too much longer. If it does, it won't be a full-blown tornado.
Bruce is cool, I like him in that movie. Sam Jackson is also real good. Travolta, eh...
Be back later guys and gals!
your right, except for the Bonnie situation......that is my favorite part of the whole movie, Sam is great, but John should have been on brain detail!
woah , i have one phonecall and suddenly i get back and the chat explodes..
woah KIM! you are awesome! hehehe
did you really beleive god came down to earth and stopped these.....bang...holy shit u just shot martin in the face....
KIM check this out. lol I told this joke so many times :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0y-Qjjd-1U
(notice who he tells the joke to)
hahahahahahahaha... Tarantino movies rock!
yeah AJ,,,hehehe he sure put amsterdam on the map.
Speaking of movies... I'm off to watch one! See ya later!
Nice pictures. We had a lightining storm here in CO about, well right around the world series time. It was insane. I have a pretty nice digital camera, but didn't have it with me..atupid i know.. but it was sick stuff!
hey will, i guess this is my fav lightning shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLJ6oqToKrc
(b4 turn volume to max! ;)
anyone go a better one show me please :D
Thans for the comments guys. And no, Matt it's not a video still. My camera is a Canon EOS400 SLR - just used a tripod and remote and voila!!
Thanks so much Reed for posting the pics, both our sites will do well for 'hit's out of it!!! I'll post the page onto my site for you also!
Kenny, where did you see those photos on Google of mine? Would appreciate where you located them -
Mike
Darwin
thx for the pics mike!
Cor's If you thought your video had a close strike, then you must be crazy!!! Check this out!!! Skip to 3:10 seconds and watch from there if you don't feel like watching the whole video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hm-2WvzEGM&feature=related
Hey Mike!! Is it okay if I use you're first lightning picture on there, for a little Watches/Warning's thing I made that's going to go up on my site? I watermarked "StormscapesDarwin.com" on it.
And If you thought that video was scary, Me and my mom were just sitting in the living room and all of a sudden something crashes and falls down in our kitchen. No one was in there..Creepy eh? Scared the Shit out of me.
Mike..I'll try to find them...I haven't seen them since before this summer.
Wait...You took those picture's after the summer..I guess I saw different one's that looked like it. Sorry :(
That ones great Cors!! I bet he S@#t Hinself standing there!! Here's my fav!!
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z285/shadetree6981/Lightning%20shots/?action=view¤t=Screenshot2.jpg
Cors. Check out Warren Faidley's stuff. Back about 20 years ago, he got a shot of a direct CG to a storage tank facility from about 50 yards away. Here's a link to see a small version of the pic. The shot I'm talking about can be found on the right-hand side - it's the first lightning pic on that side, and has the words "natural disasters" under the photo.
http://www.cyclonecowboy.com/
My bro taped a real good one when I was at work a couple years ago and like an idiot I deleted it!! you couldn't see the direct strike, it was behind him but only 150ft or away!! That one you posted Kenny was awesome!! That one would require a check of the shorts that's for sure!!
Okay Cors ... I need to say that I didn't watch the video you posted before I posted that link. I think yours is just *slightly* closer. :D
Now I need to go look at Kenny's video.
wow artsy picture u got there brady,,,I like! thx for the link heidi thats an incredible shot! sy to say i miss the sound kinda ,besides that guy is a bit freaky I think.
Alert! Meteor Shower active now!! Alert!!
Reason #2 to carry a roll with you when you chase storms!! hehe Reason #1 being wonderful gas station cuisine!! hehe
u know kenny, when i hear people talk about those stupid dinosours that got extinct by a meteor, I kinda pitty them cause if those mofo would hit now we would be extict. why ffs dont we spend billions to protect us from a thing like that???? I dont get it
Thanx Cors!! Not bad for a crappy cam with a crappier vid mode!! but I like it!! hehe
We need one of these, Cors!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4V93tm466U&feature=PlayList&p=A67E0E02404569EF&index=8
yeah brady, f fancy cams,,,its all bout how u use them. besides internet cant handle HD anyways.
but I do have a plan to make the first 3d tornado movie that would be insane i think.....please dont steal my plan ;)
LOOOOOOL HEIDI!
Who's up for another, "To close for comfort" Lightning video?
I am!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubjfStRp4h8&feature=related
hell yeah!
wow kenny that lightning was soo thick, it might be the cam but i dont think so.
I mean look at it:
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7308/lightningfo3.jpg
Now this strike is close! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTztOz_EUrE&feature=related
cool vid, its amazing how you can analize the lightning strike on video, its often more then one beam.
I'm sorry for filling the chat up with these video's but they just keep getting better and better!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwfLxCj-NB0&feature=related
Kenny, sure thing go ahead. so long as the credit is there I have no problem. Thx for the comment in the guest book too!
Mike
Darwin
lol, they sure do kenny :D
you know making a great lightning vid only takes one thing....patience. (and some knowledge of meteorology)
Thank's Mike!! And no problem for the comment in the guest book! If ya wanna check out some stuff. Go to www.freewebs.com/cndnweather/ I'm a Bike Chaser from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Just go to "The Chaser's" section and you'll be able to read up about me.
trust me the vids u see are tiny parts of the whole role. its obvious ofcourse for some but it looks like they just put on the cam and got it. thats not how it work. most prolly go hours of video maybe even of multible cams just to get the 10sec shot.
Cors, Imagine if human's could predict where/when the lightning would strike. Anyone could save live's of people then and get the perfect shot!
I think they can detect when lighning strikes, they use it to predict places where forrest fires might start. but going along on this road there are conspiracy theories about black millitairy prgrams that can actually guide hurricanes.
lol if nj would get a tw i would chase to but it doesn't but i have a car so dont have to bike chase cuz im to afraid of lighting
nj had a tornado this summer! and yes lightning is the most scary part about storm I think.
uhhh I mean brooklyn:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYjlJwsq_Ro
global warming??@@!!!
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/17/spain.climate/index.html
Ahh, I love motorcycle movies. "On Any Sunday" is great, check it out.
Tomorrow I'll be out and about, playing in the sand in Syracuse, KS. There's a nice new sand dune park built there. It should be awesome. www.syracusesandpark.com
See ya guys later!
well there was in nyc but thats 1 hour away from me plus durin it i was on vacation in wildwood
thats not gonna get you off the hook justin! ;)
Ahh, AJ I like motorcycles too, especially the ones with nitro :P my friend works for TomTom, made a viral for them :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgmrU7rZXD4
lol it was also at night and i think proubly rain wrapped plus i didnt have my car and my mom wouldn't let me drive hers at all during that vacation
yea nightchasing is some scary shit, respect to dick m. aka siggytore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scC3c8vfZuM
but he did catch the big one. respect!
i was watchin this live to all this news stuff and this guy at time i was watchin wit few others people remember ows chatroom and stuff from there
btw dick you might think I used your song in my firestorm vid. I only noticed you used the same song after I made it. peace
yea I was there too justin, basically david reimer made it happen a smart guy that knows alot about forecasting espesciallly for his age, its to bad things whent pear shaped, why cant we all just live along?
yea he is and we were using i forget wat website yea and usely place is dead so i came bac here cuz u guys are always on and stuff& wonder if reed will ever try live chat ever again instead of the blogs
thx for the vid thought i was never going to see that news report again im gunna watch all parts to it hopefully not long cuz whole storm went to 3:30 in the mourning my time
its long part2 is like 25min, funny detail is that dave freeman is still live and doesnt know it at the end of part 2 I think.
i thought youtube videos could only be 9:59 seconds long?
HA! I hacked youtube...lol
lol right and i won the lottery lol and hopefully comin up gunna get snow storm would be cool for it to snow on turkey day cuz i would be at macy's day parade in nyc
I never realized wot a big snowstorm in nyc ment untill I was in my top floor room in the carlyle.
usely they aint to bad usely but where is carlyle cuz if thats upper ny they get it bad like my dad in greenwich sayed around on big storm 5 in an hour also when i was up there we had a ice storm one that happened in oklahoma we lost power
yeah upper east side I think...thing is the height the wind was screaming.
btw must be a stressfull job being a weatherman in kansas. I bet the GB tornado was the strongest tornado ever caught on video
one of the strongest i say idk which was stronger may 3rd or gb tornado but the bigs one's also tri state xenia tornao im sure there's others idk of
If I was a gambling man, which I am. I bet the GB tornado had higher windspeeds then the oklahoma may3 f5. but probably the strongest tornadoes form in bangladesh/india.
greensburg was in the 200 hundred range and im just goin wit us tornado but india torndo more deadly cuz highly more populated compared to our city's
true but I was thinking about the himalayas and the flat land right behind it. I dont know much about the science of tornadoes but I think that would be the perfect setting geographically.
I haven't really thought about it... but I guess I can credit the Greensburg event in someways for me finding this site!! I remember just after it happened finding out about Reed and Joels work!!
doesnt suprise me brady they were on cnn international for 3days almost none stop with their vid. btw we get tornadoes over here too. (one time a plane flew into one)
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9347/tornadonllg5.jpg
i found out about this site just searching up tornado's and one of his images came up to site where u buy dvd's i only bought one may 3rd 1999 never recieved still haven't almost 2 year but recieved i think 3 or 4 for it which i think was really nice
justin, you pay for videos/music/software online????
Youtube!! that's how I found out!! I need to buy a few of Reed and Joels vids!! It's the least I could do for all of Reeds help this summer/ fall!!
That hose looks evil Cors!! I'm gonna have to drive a lil to get one like that!!
I mean, think about wot ur doing!!! look at for instance metallica they cant buy their newest learjet and have to do it with an older version without plasma tv's or Jlo she has to cancel her ass beautician just because working class people download music for free. It's terrorism thats wot it is!!! shame on freeloaders shame on you!!!
Ya have to agree, if anyone out there deserves some $$ for their work, It's Reed and the crew!! It's not like they sit on their asses and collect!! That's why I hesitate to try to download any of these guys stuff!! I'll buy em straight up!! but yeah... fdk the entertainment industry unless they chase storms!! hehe
Hey Brady, You should get Tornado Glory, it's a little dated now, but it's really good! I have seen it a gazillion times!
after listening to WWL radio for about 2weeks, I felt obligated to donate $100 to N.O. (red cross) but its a very nice gesture of you to do that but just giving respect and telling other people about the site helps him just as much. let the big news stations pay the $$$ they can affort it, I pitty anderson cooper, I used to see him as a hero (after katrina) but I read a interview with him and reed b4 cooper was famous and he said he didnt get it; stormchasing. now I remember cooper hangening of a pier in florida in the middle of hurricane wilma,,,he doesnt get it????
i still have to buy and see tornado glory haven't seen it yet and i would still buy reed's videos cuz i think they would be good
kenny, could not find July's blog photos in the calendar....you wanna send me the pic via email? My email is on my site on the home page down the bottom.
Mike
uhh I didnt think this through completely, considering reeds continuing efforts to keep this site up to date/current he deserves a whole lot of respect and actually donations cause its costing him money to keep this site online.
Oh I try to plug this site everywhere I go!! I even recruited a local chaser who peeks in from time to time!!He'll help next summer!!
With the way this country is going!! Storm statements are probably gonna read like this in a few years...
Posted By Reed | August 26, 2007 @ 7:33 PM #
285
WWUS53 KFGF 270031
SVSFGF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
731 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2007
NDC067-270045-
/O.CON.KFGF.TO.W.0034.000000T0000Z-070827T0045Z/
PEMBINA ND-
731 PM CDT SUN AUG 26 2007
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 745 PM CDT FOR SOUTHERN
PEMBINA COUNTY...
AT 731 PM CDT...WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED A FUNNEL CLOUD. THE FUNNEL
CLOUD WAS LOCATED NEAR HOOPLE...OR 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF GRAFTON...
MOVING TO THE EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE FUNNEL CLOUD WILL BE NEAR...
ST. THOMAS BY 740 PM CDT...
10 MILES SOUTH OF GLASSTON BY 745 PM CDT...
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A STURDY BUILDING.
A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM CDT SUNDAY EVENING
FOR NORTHWESTERN MINNESOTA.
THIS WARNING HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BUY GEICO. 15 MINUTES COULD SAVE YOU 15% OR MORE!!
Hey Caleb, no, it's all staccato lightning. Sheet lightning is a dreary to photograph!
Mike
if an EF5 would be heading towards my location I wouldnt abandon my car, I would use it to get the hell out of there. over here we dont get tornado warning we dont even have acces to a velocity radar.
This one ended up being an ef4!! I don't think it's fair that a tornado get that kinda rating for eating up a trailer park!!!
lol, I reported a funnel cloud over amsterdam once on a dutch weather site but they just told me to stop writing in caps.
Hehe!! I think I heard that before, Heidi told me if I report one, Make sure caps are off!! hehe
its pretty insane. we had hurricane force winds, extreme downbursts, tornadoes, waterspouts, highest stormsurge since 1953, wallclouds, shelfclouds and large hail all this year.
Now all ya need is some Blizzards!!
Bring it on!
When I was standing under this shelfcloud(shaking) I kept saying to myself be carefull what you wish for. lol at some point I thought tornadoes were spinning up all around me, a clear sign I was hanging around this site to much. hehe
I known what ya mean!! How do you think I felt when I caught this!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFWc1eegZL4
I was going nuts!! hehe
Or this one about a half hour before the one above!!
http://s195.photobucket.com/albums/z285/shadetree6981/?action=view¤t=100_2768.flv