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  • A bolt of lightning strikes a couple miles away. Normally this farm field is dry, but after a very rainy week it was covered by floodwater. This storm rolled through near Spring Lake, IL.<br />
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Date Taken: May 30, 2013
    Flood and Strike
  • A severe thunderstorm approaches over a corn field near Morton, Illinois. A shelf cloud can be seen on the lower left and the anvil extends to the top right.<br />
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Date Taken: June 23, 2013
    Morton Thunderhead
  • I wasn't expecting to see such a scene on this day, since the storm chances were low. But once I heard the thunder rumbling at 11am, I quickly left the house. After driving southeast I let the storm overtake me near the town of Kenney, and shot this panorama shortly before it started raining.  This time of year the corn is often 8 feet tall which restricts the view of approaching storms. I have to look for somewhere else to shoot such as this field of soybeans.<br />
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Date Taken: July 14, 2014
    Kenney Thunderstorm
  • This thunderstorm formed ahead of an outflow boundary near Goodfield, Illinois. The updraft at the beginning was strong enough to keep the rain aloft. Then suddenly, a column of sinking air within the thunderstorm rushed to the ground, bringing strong winds and torrential rain. This is known as a microburst. It is a very localized event that can be difficult to predict. For a pilot, a microburst is the most dangerous part of a thunderstorm. Microbursts have caused numerous plane crashes, they are especially dangerous when an aircraft is trying to land.<br />
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Click 'Videos' above to watch a time lapse of this scene.<br />
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Date Taken: May 28, 2014
    Wet Microburst
  • This has always been one of my favorite local views. But after the biggest snowfall of winter it was looking especially beautiful
    Snowy Barns of Banner
  • After the microburst occurred the rain continued to increase. The lowering on the right resembled a wall cloud, but I'm not certain what it was. <br />
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Click 'Videos' above to watch a time lapse of this scene.<br />
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Date Taken: May 28, 2014
    Torrents of Rain
  • Shooting stars fill the sky during the Geminid meteor shower above the Mississippi River Valley. In the 2 hours after the moon set, I counted about 90 meteors. I also enjoyed watching Comet Lovejoy rise through binoculars and with the naked eye. The comet and it's tail can be seen over the haze on the lower right. I couldn't have asked for better weather for this meteor shower. Wind chills were -15 the night before, and a big snowstorm was arriving in the late morning. But in between the skies were clear with mild temperatures in the mid-20's.<br />
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Date Taken: 12/13/13
    Gifts from Gemini
  • After chasing this storm past Morton, Illinois, I took this picture north of town. The mammatus clouds were boiling overhead as the shelf cloud quickly approached. I saw a couple cloud to ground lightning bolts come out of the shelf cloud. But despite how threatening it looked, the storm died out shortly after I took this picture. It was nice while it lasted.<br />
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Date Taken: June 23, 2013
    Dark Shelf
  • On June 23rd, just outside of the tornado capitol of Wyoming, this noodle touched down. When the storm first formed in Chugwater, the clouds were spinning so fast it felt like I was watching a sped-up time lapse in front of my eyes. Tornadoes require several ingredients to form and if you have too much or too little of one then they won't happen. The Laramie Range west of here is a reliable source of lift to get updrafts going. Moisture has been more than abundant this year, as any Wyoming resident will tell you. But until this week, wind shear for severe storms was lacking. Though severe storms happened on the 3 days prior to this, cool temperatures prevented enough atmospheric instability for them to live up to their true potential. But then on Friday all the conditions came together just right for a long lived tornadic supercell. Wyoming hasn't had a day like this in several years. The storm was not one and done. It put down at least 8 twisters, depending on who you ask. Many of them were brief, but also photogenic. There was no damage reported, at least not until the supercell crossed into Nebraska.
    Twister Between Farms
  • Dwight Farm Dusk
  • Up Farm Creek
  • Stormy Farm
  • I'm not sure what this farm implement is called, but I liked the way it looked with the milky way behind it.
    Wheels in the Sky
  • Puffy cumulus clouds float across the sky as they build into small thunderstorms. These storms passed over the farm fields of rural Mason County.<br />
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Date Taken: August 11, 2014
    Fluffy Clouds
  • Horses graze above a farm in the foothills of the French Alps.
    Horses of Plancherine
  • A severe thunderstorm quickly approaches over a farm field. The red color underneath is from dust kicked up by the 60+ mph winds. The storm also brought large hail, heavy rain, and lots of lightning.<br />
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Date Taken: May 19, 2013
    Approach of a Monster