Watch some time-lapse video of super-cell thunderheads taken in June over Texas this year. A thing of true beauty, but awesomely powerful and deadly dangerous as well.
A Supercell Thunderstorm Over Texas
Video Credit & Copyright: Mike Olbinski; Music: Impact Lento (Kevin MacLeod, Incompetech)
(seen on APOD)
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"For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature." -Ann Druyan
APOD got some attention yesterday with this stunning photo of a supercell thunderstorm several kilometers wide, brooding over a Montana field:
I grew up (and beyond) in the US northeast. There, the weather was pretty good at coming at us from the West, though a nor'easter blowing in from the North East (unsurprisingly) was not uncommon in New England.
With all the interest in tornadoes, I thought it would be helpful to provide some contextual data (focusing on US tornadoes).