Rolling thunder
Thunderstorms produce a lot of weird things, which are often easy to miss amid the urgency of tornadoes, floods and lightning. But before a storm arrives, or sometimes out of the blue, rare "roll clouds" like this one command attention as they float ominously overhead.
"It was amazing," photographer Rob Sharrock told ZUMA Press in 2010, after shooting this roll cloud over Warrnambool, Australia. "I just looked up in the sky and said, 'Bloody hell, what on Earth is that?' It seemed to go on for miles."
To see more, and to find out what causes these stormy spindles, check out the following gallery of nine rockin' roll clouds from around the world. (Text: Russell McLendon)
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
Comments
THE HIGH-FREQUENCY ACTIVE AURAL RESEARCH PROGRAM - HAARP http://www.bariumblues.com/haarp1.htm
ccording to Dr. Rosalie Bertell, HAARP is part of a integrated weapons' system, which has potentially devastating environmental consequences: "It is related to fifty years of intensive and increasingly destructive programs to understand and control the upper atmosphere. It would
cool!
I can't even imagine how many people think these are tornadoes. My mother saw one a few weeks ago and called the NWS thinking it was. All those years of being a Skywarn spotter has taught me otherwise.
HAARP much?!
WOW ships of the Covenant
When I was in the 5th grade, outside at recess after a storm, we seen several of these in the sky above us. It was really freaky to me at 10 years old.
I saw one of these in Oklahoma City back in the 80's. We watched it come right at us for a couple of miles at Seagate where I worked. When it got to us it nearly knocked us off the loading dock we were on watching it. An awesome experience...
I saw one before an impressive early evening thunderstorm in Saigon, summer of 2007.
holy crap!
Yes! actually experienced one when living out west.It was very large and green.It rolled up over the mountains and down into the valley at 90 miles an hour. Had never seen anything like it before or since.
Have you ever seen this?x
Add your comment
Sign in with one of these accounts or just add your comment below.
create an account