Eric, the eeriest thing I've seen in the skies thus far came while I was flying around the leading edge of a massive mesoscale convective complex that was ruining days from Denver to Yankton SD. I got the distinct feeling that I'd glimpsed something mortals were not meant to tangle with. I've also a seen a proto-tornado from above while flying through a storm with a former cloud seeder. Yet we felt nary a bump or bubble as we punched through.
Of course mortals were meant to tangle with nature and anything in it, or what's a brain for?
As to looking down on a tornado while in a storm, the lack of turbulence plainly was due to global warming--the air had been heated sufficiently to spread the molecules apart form each other, absorbing the shock waves of the turbulence before they could get far.
I love cloud formations like that. The inner firefighter says, "Hmmm, smells like money." To which the other voices answer, "Whoa, check out the updraft in that cloud!" "Oooo, nice light show." "The rain smells so good." Yeah, there's a lot of voices in there. 0>;~}
The gods in the sky are angry. One shouldn't anger the gods for frivolous reasons.
Then there's the crazy guy that comes about every generation that goes out into the wilderness trying to find a god to kill. Such as people chasing storms.
Wow. Surf's up, some areas with tall grass.
ReplyDeleteSome of those formations make we want to go fly up in them and see them up close. But my wife won't let me. [sigh]
Eric Hines
I saw skies like that as a child a little to the east of where that photographer works out of now.
ReplyDeleteAlways exciting when a cell boils up and punches through the troposphere.
Eric, the eeriest thing I've seen in the skies thus far came while I was flying around the leading edge of a massive mesoscale convective complex that was ruining days from Denver to Yankton SD. I got the distinct feeling that I'd glimpsed something mortals were not meant to tangle with. I've also a seen a proto-tornado from above while flying through a storm with a former cloud seeder. Yet we felt nary a bump or bubble as we punched through.
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Of course mortals were meant to tangle with nature and anything in it, or what's a brain for?
ReplyDeleteAs to looking down on a tornado while in a storm, the lack of turbulence plainly was due to global warming--the air had been heated sufficiently to spread the molecules apart form each other, absorbing the shock waves of the turbulence before they could get far.
Eric Hines
Awesome photos. I would not want to fly anywhere near those clouds.
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ReplyDelete*snicker*
I love cloud formations like that. The inner firefighter says, "Hmmm, smells like money." To which the other voices answer, "Whoa, check out the updraft in that cloud!" "Oooo, nice light show." "The rain smells so good."
Yeah, there's a lot of voices in there.
0>;~}
The gods in the sky are angry. One shouldn't anger the gods for frivolous reasons.
ReplyDeleteThen there's the crazy guy that comes about every generation that goes out into the wilderness trying to find a god to kill. Such as people chasing storms.