Posted on 06/13/2021 4:25:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Is that a cloud or an alien spaceship? It's an unusual and sometimes dangerous type of thunderstorm cloud called a supercell. Supercells may spawn damaging tornados, hail, downbursts of air, or drenching rain. Or they may just look impressive. A supercell harbors a mesocyclone -- a rising column of air surrounded by drafts of falling air. Supercells could occur over many places on Earth but are particularly common in Tornado Alley of the USA. Featured here are four time-lapse sequences of a supercell in 2013 rotating above and moving across Booker, Texas. Captured in the video are new clouds forming near the storm center, dust swirling on the ground, lightning flashing in the upper clouds, all while the impressively sculptured complex rotates ominously. Finally, after a few hours, as shown in the final sequence, dense rain falls as the storm begins to die out.
Today's image is a video at the source link.
Thunder Basin coughs one up for the Northern Black Hills:
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https://www.wunderground.com/maps/satellite/regional-visible/uspir
Pretty awesome but has little to do with astronomy, other than something above ground level.
It is not astronomy or muslim outreach.
A thunderstorm on Jupiter, however, would be an astronomical subject, unless you’re a denizen of Jupiter. Then the Jovian would be saying “What on Jupiter does this have to do with space??”. All things being relative, the earth was once not considered a planet...
Wow! That reminds me of the movie about invading Martians starring Tom Cruise and the brewing storm which looks an awful lot like this video.
That here on earth our interests in science are not constrained by rigid categories and if someone whose subject is astrophysics wants to share videos of impressive super cell storms no one should have any objection. Perhaps they just want to take a break from staring into the void.
Perhaps I’m just noticing a lot of those breaks. I do consider astronomy a rigid subject, if words have meaning, but not so much that I can’t see a sky full of stars in a handful of sand, if you get my meaning. Maybe not. NASA needs a little more focus. This isn’t whining, by the way. You’ll know it when you see it.
Interesting
Thanks
Wow!
That’s a lot of physics going on there. Rayleigh scattering, condensation, light refraction, phase transition, gravity, but no stars.
You can’t see stars and rain at the same time silly.
This is a photograph of atmospheric phenomena on Earth and taken from its surface. The star that the Earth orbits (not shown) drives its weather.
It is possible to see a rainstorm to the east as the sun sinks in the west!
L.L., Mtn Climber
https://www.theoi.com/Nymphe/NymphaiHyades.html
“THE HYADES were nymphs of the five stars of the constellation Hyades and daughters of the heavens-bearing Titan Atlas. After their brother Hyas was killed by a lion, the teary Hyades were set amongst the stars. The heliacal setting of their constellation in November marks the start of the rainy season in Greece and from this the nymphs were named “the Rainy Ones.”
Ulysses
Alfred Lord Tennyson - 1809-1892
“....I cannot rest from travel; I will drink
Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed
Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Through scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
Much have I seen and known—cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
Myself not least, but honored of them all,—
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.
I am a part of all that I have met;...”
I knew someone would say that!
wow, thanks for posting
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