Best Anvil shots- post your best

[Wayne Hlinicky]

Here is one looking north from my house. This is just north of Guthrie, Oklahoma. It later produced an F1 around Stillwater, Oklahoma in open country.

 

[Martin North]

Nice anvil with flanking line...near Belfast, N. Ireland.

 

[John Mason]

Here's a bonny one

Over here in Wales, when Northerlies blow in winter due to low pressure centered to the E of the UK, the cold air that comes along is unstable to the warm sea temperatures, often sufficiently so to trigger intense convection. This will form in a quasi-stationary line from the sea between N Ireland and SW Scotland southwards, so that it clips the end of the Lleyn Peninsula in NW Wales, is then out at sea until Pembrokeshire and sometimes is established across the outer Bristol Channel and SW England. This line permits the greatest "fetch" of cold air over warm sea. Precipitation consists entirely of snow and hail in the classic examples, with over a foot of snow possible in the convective line's narrow path as storm afer storm conveyors along it. In UK meteorological slang the convective line is referred to as the "Pembrokeshire Dangler", based on its shape on the radar when in full flow

This shot, taken at first light on a late November morning, shows the Dangler in full blast! This line was electrically active when I went to view it: later that day a lad was struck by lightning while sledging on the deeply snow-covered Prescelli Hills in Pembrokeshire. He was in hospital for some considerable time.

Cheers - John

 

[Maggie Kahman]

I think we have a winner!!

 

[Maggie Kahman]

I want to show you some of my better cloud pictures. My passion for severe weather photography started in the summer of my senior year. I started out using a disposible camera, so the pictures arent the greatest. With an exception of a couple pictures i took on June 12, 2004.

The most extreme form of mammatus i have ever seen. I like how the
sun is hitting them. This picture has not be altered in any way.

Im in love with this picture. I have always thought it would make a
great postcard.

 

[David Mikulec]

July 23, 2003 Boyle County, Kentucky

 

[Mike Hollingshead]

I want to show you some of my better cloud pictures. My passion for severe weather photography started in the summer of my senior year. I started out using a disposible camera, so the pictures arent the greatest. With an exception of a couple pictures i took on June 12, 2004.


The most extreme form of mammatus i have ever seen. I like how the
sun is hitting them. This picture has not be altered in any way.


Im in love with this picture. I have alway thought it wauld make a
great postcard.

Nice Maggie. Those were taken the same day as the "famous" extreme mammatus photos. http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/nebraska/june2004hastings-mammatus.html

Pisses me off I was chasing the storms that day in southern NE and never got behind them to see those.

 

[Tim Vasquez]

May 26, 1997 - just east of Norman OK

This is the anvil of a baby storm that means business. It went on to put down multiple tornadoes.

Enjoyed seeing John Mason's shot of UK storms... the radar and the visual image from someplace outside North America was quite a treat.

Tim

 

[Patrick Boomer]

Beautiful photos everyone! Wow there is a lot of eye candy in this thread.
Here are a pair of Alberta Foothills anvils.
1st one is from July 29/05, east of Olds, AB. 2nd shot is of a tornadic storm east of Drayton Valley, AB on July 29/07.

 

[Howard Kirby]

Some great shots in this thread. Here are a few more anvils form The UK:

 

[Maggie Kahman]

Some anvil pictures for ya. Also, how do i go about copyrighting my photos? Do i just put "c mKahman 2007" Just wanted to know for future reference

 

[Tim Vasquez]

how do i go about copyrighting my photos? Do i just put "c mKahman 2007" Just wanted to know for future reference

You should start a separate thread for this so as not to derail this one, but you automatically have a copyright just by creating the picture. Just mark it with a copyright and claim it that way. If you wish to register it and make it official and get certain legal protections then, google for "copyright office" and you can find more info on how to file a copyright claim.

Everyone else: replies should be started in a separate thread.

Tim

 

[Ryan McGinnis]