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Big West African supercell from space
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Chris Kennedy
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Nice find, that thing is huge
Jody Radzik
EF2
I bet there was some really good mammatus under that anvil.
cdcollura
EF5
Good day all,
Impressive stuff ... 75,000 foot tops, like I mentioned in another thread, are possible over the tropics due to the higher tropopause.
Also interesting is the dusty SAL (Saharan Air Layer) - The low-level haze you see if you look at the lower clouds (poking through the haze layer) in the lower portions of the picture.
Impressive stuff ... 75,000 foot tops, like I mentioned in another thread, are possible over the tropics due to the higher tropopause.
Also interesting is the dusty SAL (Saharan Air Layer) - The low-level haze you see if you look at the lower clouds (poking through the haze layer) in the lower portions of the picture.
Ryan Wichman
EF3
I saw that picture this morning. Pretty weak sauce. I don't chase anything under 80,000 feet.
That is a rather old picture, IIRC. Daily Mail loves to dig up old pictures and write articles about them as if they're new - Usually without doing much research beyond paraphrasing a Wikipedia article on the subject. They usually game Digg with these as well.
Here we go: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lbf/?n=iss_thunderstorm
Here we go: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/lbf/?n=iss_thunderstorm
The picture may be old, but it sure is COOL!
David Drummond
Member
Cool pic. Gotta love this part though:
Invisible to anyone on the ground? I could swear backsheared anvils and overshooting top identification was part of storm spotter training everywhere.
Invisible to anyone on the ground? I could swear backsheared anvils and overshooting top identification was part of storm spotter training everywhere.
Jared Farrer
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I am not sure they are saying this cumulonimbi is 75,000 feet, I think they are saying they can reach as tall as that which in the tropics of course they can due to the taller tropopause.
I cant tell you how tall it is without looking at a sounding. But you can see a towering cu right beside it punching up through the anvil. Given its summer for the northern hem, it probably is 70,000 or so tall!
Amazing picture, I wish we had more of those. I wish we had more supercells shot from this angle! LOL.
I cant tell you how tall it is without looking at a sounding. But you can see a towering cu right beside it punching up through the anvil. Given its summer for the northern hem, it probably is 70,000 or so tall!
Amazing picture, I wish we had more of those. I wish we had more supercells shot from this angle! LOL.
L.B. LaForce
EF2
LOL..that is it quite an amazing shot I must say. Nice find!
jladue
EF1
This is a nice picture but I don't think the convection is overly impressive compared to what we usually consider chaseworthy. In fact, most likely this storm was not rotating. It may have had a nice upwind anvil but if the wind at anvil level wasn't strong then it wouldn't have taken much of an updraft to generate that kind of upwind growth.
Joe beier
EF1
That shot is pure amazingness ... brb buying a spaceship
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