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Showing posts with label Weather - Unusual events. Show all posts
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Saturday, January 14, 2017

TALL PILLARS OF LIGHT DANCING ABOVE HOUSES IN FREEZING CANADA - The phenomenon is caused by a combination of city lights and freezing temperatures

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Extraordinary images show 'light pillars' dancing above houses after sunshine and snow combine to create rare effect
  • Stunning pictures have shown rare light pillars forming over Canada after freezing temperatures of -18C
  • They are caused when moisture in the air freezes over and remains stationary in vertical shafts towards sky
  • They then reflect artificial light coming from the street and create an effect similar to the Northern Lights   


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Sunday, December 25, 2016

ICY FOG TSUNAMI RISES OVER GREAT LAKES town of Duluth Harbor, Minnesota

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DAILY MAIL Residents of Duluth Harbor, Minnesota, were witness to a spectacular phenomenon Sunday, as a wall of 'steam', hundreds of feet high, rose from Lake Superior.  Created by warmer lake waters evaporating in the -18 degree air, the churning cliff of fog was stunning but harmless.
 
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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

SNOW FELL IN THE SAHARA DESERT - A SNOWBALL IN HELL CHANCE?

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Stunning: The pictures were taken in Ain Sefra, in Algeria, yesterday afternoon
Villagers stunned as snow falls in the Sahara for the first time in 37 YEARS 
 
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Sunday, December 11, 2016

MYSTERIOUS BLUE CLOUDS OBSERVED OVER ANTARCTICA

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The mystery of the glowing blue clouds over Antarctica: NASA spots strangely early 'night clouds'
  • AIM spacecraft saw 'night-glowing' clouds forming 50 miles above Earth
  • Phenomenon tied with earliest start date yet recorded over Antarctica 
  • These clouds are composed of ice crystals and seeded by meteor debris
  • When they reflect sunlight, they have a 'shocking' blue colouring 
  • According to NASA, Nov 17 marked the start of noctilucent cloud season in the Southern Hemisphere.  These are Earth’s highest clouds, and sit between our planet and space in the mesosphere.

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Monday, October 24, 2016

BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY SOLVED? Hexagonal clouds creating terrifying air bombs of 170mph winds and 45ft waves may be to blame for the disappearance of ships and aircraft, scientists say

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  • Bermuda Triangle has been blamed for hundreds of missing vessels
  • The 500,000km square patch in the North Atlantic Ocean is still unsolved
  • Scientists now believe the clouds and weather phenomena are to blame
  • The so-called air bombs can create waves of up to 45ft, experts have said 



  • Continue reading and watch National Geographic Documentary Video

    Wednesday, August 3, 2016

    STRANGE AND AWE-INSPIRING CLOUD OVER WINDMILLS, AS SUPERCHARGED STORM PASSES OVER THE NETHERLANDS

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    Jonas said: 'It was very unique, usually strong storms occur around afternoon or late evening but this one arrived with perfect timing at sunrise.
    The images were taken over the windmills of Kinderdijk, Netherlands by photographer Jonas Piontek, who stayed awake all night waiting for the storm to arrive.  The storm arrived at sunrise and created this strange orange and purple scene.  The same storm produced over 100,000 lightning strikes over the English Channel.

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    Thursday, October 22, 2015

    THE MOMENT A GIANT WATERSPOUT DESCENDS OVER THE ITALIAN PORT OF GENOA - Captured in dramatic pictures by a Russian tourist

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    No escape: As the tornado moves closer to the Italian coastal town, it grows in size and power
    Dark, blustery clouds can be seen filling the sky as the twister hits the ocean, with dramatic flashes of lightening and rumbles of thunder taking place in the background.
  • Tourist Evgeny Drokov from Russia captured water tornado hitting the bay of Genoa, in Italy, while on a family holiday
  • Incredible series of images show the giant water tornado as it descends on the coastal town

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    Friday, October 16, 2015

    MIRAGE OR HIGH TECH EXPERIMENT? - SIGHTINGS OF A CITY FLOATING OVER CLOUDS IN CHINA - Captured on video - Not the first occurrence - Can be explained scientifically as a phenomenon called FATA MORGANA, but conspiracy theories went into overdrive

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    CHINESE TV news reports have told how thousands of residents in TWO areas reported separately seeing a huge city form in the skies.

    Thousands of people were said to be stunned by the apparition

    Onlookers, some who are said to have videoed the bizarre event, were said to be mesmerised  as a towering city of sky scrapers appeared from the clouds.

    Continue reading, see more images, and watch videos of this 2015 event, and of a similar sighting over Nigeria in 2011.

    Thursday, June 4, 2015

    OMINOUS FOG BANK CAME ASHORE IN NEW JERSEY LOOKING JUST LIKE A TSUNAMI - Seen off the coast of Sea Girt

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    Tusnami? This ominous weather feature, spotted off the Jersey Shore on Sunday, is actually a harmless wall of fog
    It looks like a scene from a disaster movie - a wall of destruction roaring towards and unprepared beach, with nothing but diminutive lifeguard towers in its way.
     
    But this tsunami lookalike is actually harmless fog, caused by a rare combination of warm and cold air over the New Jersey shoreline.
     
    The intimidating images, captured Sunday afternoon in Sea Girt, a town of less than 2,000, shows the ominous weather formation hovering just off the shore.

    Movie scenes like this one are now part of our fantasies and nightmares:
    Disaster movie: the fog looks similar to this scene from Deep Impact showing a tsunami hitting New York
    The unforgettable scene from the film Deep Impact

    See illustration explaining this phenomenon

    Saturday, December 13, 2014

    GRAND CANYON RARE EVENT - CLOUDS MAKE A BRIDGE creating the illusion that you could walk over the void.

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  • Spectacular pictures show a sea of dense clouds filling the Grand Canyon because of rare weather system
  • Clouds make it look as if you could walk across the Grand Canyon
  • Temperature inversion causes colder foggy air to be trapped underneath a warmer band of air on surface of canyon
  • Rare phenomenon caused an eerily beautiful effect, astounding tourists at the ancient valley in Arizona
  • A thick blanket of fog rose from the foot of the Grand Canyon, creating an eerily beautiful effect for thousands of tourists visiting the breathtaking Arizona valley

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    Thursday, July 17, 2014

    FRIGHTENING UFO-SHAPED SUPERCELL CLOUDS OVER ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO - NEAR AREA 51

    An enormous supercell in the shape of a UFO looms over Roswell, New Mexico, close to the secret U.S. military site Area 51
    In the alien invasion movie Independence Day, the spaceships which obliterate Earth's great cities emerge from vast storm clouds just like these.  

    So it's fitting, then, that these portentous swirling supercells appeared over Roswell, New Mexico, near the U.S. military's secret Area 51 base, where it is widely believed a UFO crashed in 1947. 




    A small, lonely structure is dwarfed by the storm cloud as it rolls overhead in the New Mexico desert
    Jody Miller, from California, tracks down extreme weather conditions like these, risking life and limb to photograph what are incredible examples of the power of nature.


    Read more and see pictures
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2695668/Well-Roswell-Enormous-superstorms-shape-UFO-emerge-home-Area-51.html


    Pictures - Jody Miller, Barcroft Media, Daily Mail

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    Friday, July 4, 2014

    LIGHTNING STORM CREATES AMAZING MUSHROOM-SHAPED CLOUD THAT LOOKS LIKE A NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLOSION

     Eerie: The mushroom cloud looms over the hills of southern Sardinia

    Lightning storm creates terrifying nuclear bomb-style mushroom cloud in the skies above Italian island of Sardinia.
     
    Residents of the normally-sunny island of Sardinia could have been forgiven for running for the hills when this terrifying mushroom cloud appeared in the skies during an intense thunderstorm. 
     
    But while it may look like the aftermath of a nuclear explosion the awesome cloud was a purely natural phenomenon - a giant storm cell lit up from the inside by a series of lightning bolts.  The stunning set of photographs was taken by 27-year-old photographer Stefano Garau who captured the incredible moment from the balcony of his house after noticing the storm moving in fast.
     
     
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    Wednesday, July 2, 2014

    FROM NEBRASKA TO THE LAND OF OZ? - Tornado lifts up house with family in the basement, turns it around, then places it back on the ground - Everyone safe.

    Unbelievable: The home landed back on its original foundations, but it was turned 180 degrees. A father and his two young children managed to survive in its basement

    There’s no place like home! Amazing image reveals how Nebraska tornado picked up entire home and returned it back in one piece as family SURVIVED in basement

  • The tiny prairie village of Pilger, Nebraska was all but wiped off the face of the earth June 16 when twin twisters ripped through the town of 350
  • Striking footage shows a structure being lifted in the air by one of the twisters and then placed back to the ground
  • Many believe the structure was a Pilger home that was found turned around 180 degrees after the twisters
  • Corey Savage miraculously survived in the basement of that home along with his 4-year-old daughter and toddler son

  • Here is what is believed to be that same house up in the air.

    Nature's fury: Many experts believe this shocking footage shows a home being picked up and spun in the air be one of the twin twisters that ravaged the town of Pilger, Nebraska on June 16
     
    Read more and see additional pictures -
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2676057/Amazing-image-reveals-Nebraska-tornado-picked-entire-home-returned-one-piece-family-SURVIVED-basement.html

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    Sunday, May 25, 2014

    GIANT FOG BANK MAKES LAKE MICHIGAN DISAPPEAR FOR A COUPLE OF FISHERMEN

    Approaching fog bank - Photo Andrew Ballard
    NORTHERN MICHIGAN -- Spencer and Andrew Ballard didn't catch fish but instead caught an eyeful on Lake Michigan on Wednesday.   The father-son pair from Frankfort saw an enormous bank of fog roll over them in what Spencer Ballard, 59, said was a beautiful, "once-in-a-lifetime event."  And they took a video.
     
    But the actual experience was more impressive than the video.  "We couldn't see anything and the wind was crazy -- it wasn't like anything I've seen before," said Andrew Ballard, 25.   "There were cool lulls where we were in a clearing with rainbows all around us."

    Tuesday, April 1, 2014

    BRITAIN COVERED IN LAYER OF SAND FROM 2000 MILES AWAY SAHARAN SAND STORMS

    Unusual atmospheric conditions have blown up sandstorm from Africa.  Thin layer of dust seen today in areas including Cornwall and London.

    Britons woke up this morning to find their homes and cars covered in dust from the Sahara Desert.  Unusual atmospheric conditions have blown up a sandstorm from Africa - and a thin layer of dust was seen today in areas of southern England including Cornwall and Greater London.  The Met Office has forecast a ten out of ten level of air pollution for London for tomorrow and Wednesday, with warnings that the dust will this week cause one of the worst smogs of the year.
     
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