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Showing posts with label extreme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label extreme. Show all posts

April 11, 2015

Crazy Pictures of Storms from around the World

Crazy Pictures of Storms
Lightning in Zirje, Slovenia

Extreme weather includes unusual, severe or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. Often, extreme events are based of a location’s recorded weather history and defined as lying in the most unusual ten percent. In recent years some extreme weather events have been attributed to human-induced global warming, with studies indicating an increasing threat from extreme weather in the future.

May 11, 2014

Dust Devil images

Dust Devil
Dust Devil
A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small (half a meter wide and a few meters tall) to large (more than 10 meters wide and more than 1000 meters tall). The primary vertical motion is upward. Dust devils are usually harmless, but can on rare occasions grow large enough to pose a threat to both people and property.

March 3, 2014

Eruption volcano Plosky Tolbachik on Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia

Eruption volcano Plosky Tolbachik on Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia
Eruption Volcano by RIA Novosti/Alexander Sokorenko

The Plosky Tolbachik volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula burst into activity on November 27  last year after laying dormant for 36 years.
The peninsula has a high density of volcanoes and associated volcanic phenomena, with 19 active volcanoes being included in the six UNESCO World Heritage List sites in the Volcanoes of Kamchatka group, most of them on the Kamchatka Peninsula.
The highest volcano is Klyuchevskaya Sopka (15,584 ft), the largest active volcano in the Northern Hemisphere.

February 26, 2014

Powerful tornado in Oklahoma

Powerful tornado in Oklahoma
Tornado in Oklahoma 

Tornado outbreak occurred during the afternoon and evening hours of the May 20, 2013, and was the last day of a three-day stretch of significant severe weather. This event also produced the most deadly and devastating tornado of the year for Oklahoma and the the United States.

February 23, 2014

Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive tropical cyclone

Hurricane Katrina   source

Hurricane Katrina was the deadliest and most destructive Atlantic tropical cyclone of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season. It was the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Katrina was the sixth most intense Atlantic hurricane ever, part of the 2005 season that included three of the six most intense Atlantic hurricanes ever.

February 22, 2014

The most fascinating photos Supercells Storm by Camille Seaman

Supercell Storm
Supercell Storm by Camille Seaman      

American photographer Camille Seaman has spent a lot of time exploring the world and finding connections between humans and nature. Many of her works evoke an emotional relationship between the viewer and the dramatic moments captured within the natural world. The Big Cloud series features a handful of storms, specifically called supercells, that Seaman has chased throughout the middle part of the United States, ranging from Texas to North Dakota. While most of us would be turning and running in the opposite direction from these dark and gloomy skies, Seaman puts herself at high risk in order to document the dusty winds stirring right before her—and now our—eyes.

February 21, 2014

Green lightning during the eruption of the volcano Chaiten in Chile

Green lightning during the eruption of the volcano Chaiten in Chile
Eruption Volcano by Landov


Green lightning strikes as the Chaiten volcano erupts in Chile. The eerie lightning strikes may be what scientists call 'streamers,' only visible when occurring in a cloud of volcanic ash.

February 19, 2014

Incredible Volcano and Waterspout Hawaii

Volcano and Waterspout Hawaii
Volcano and Waterspouts by Bruce Omori

The eruption of Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano inspires the formation of a waterspout in this undated photo. Waterspouts can emerge the way traditional tornadoes do, but not always. Many are created when near-surface winds suddenly change direction under a cloud that is producing a growing updraft. Unlike a tornado, a waterspout vortex and funnel cloud are created from the ground, or water, up.

January 14, 2014

Volcanic Eruption in Grímsvötn, Vatnajökull, Iceland

Volcanic Eruption in Grímsvötn
Volcanic Eruption in Grímsvötn by Jon Gustafsson

Iceland's most active volcano, Grímsvötn, erupted on Saturday for the first time since 2004, hurling a plume of steam and ash nearly 20 kilometers (12 miles) into the sky. People living next to the glacier where the Grímsvötn volcano burst into life were most severely affected, with ash blocking out the daylight and smothering buildings and vehicles.