french supercell... not utopic

[DELIGNY Vincent]

:shock: look at this 2pages about 28 june 2005 in south west of France:

:arrow: 1rst page: http://ppfeyte.free.fr/orages/orage28juin05-1.htm
:arrow: 2nde page (the best): http://ppfeyte.free.fr/orages/orage28juin05-2.htm

the author is a friend ... not me

 

[nickgrillo]

Excellent stuff! Congrats...

 

[Ben Cotton]

J'ai oubli trop beaucoup de francais. Je ne peux lire les mots. Oh well, great photos. I'm very impressed.


BC

 

[B Ozanne]

Those photos are great. What is that little arrow pointing to on that second set of photos?

 

[Khristian Snyder]

Could it be ball lightning???? :?:

 

[Kurt Hulst]

It looks like a possible Firework. But i couldn't tell ya i dont read french

 

[Bill Hark]

Than you very much for posting those images. I always like to see supercells.

I cannot speak French, but Babelfish can give an approximate translation.
Click on the following link and input the website URL to get an english translation.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Bill Hark

 

[DELIGNY Vincent]

What is that little arrow pointing to on that second set of photos?

:arrow: it's a "fusée antigrêle" = a rocket against Hail
more than 10rockets are drop for protection about vine ....
but the hail has been all the same about 3cm...

For translation you may use google also :
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=+h...Flanguage_tools

 

[Andrew Khan]

I still do not understand what it is.

 

[Kurt Hulst]

Whoohoo i was right though not a firework something simular i guess as it was still propeled airborn by some means.

 

[Stuart Robinson]

FYI here are the forecast issued by ESTOFEX (Europe SPC) for the 28th June. This was a moderate risk day.

http://estofex.met.fu-berlin.de/outlook/ht...06280118cf.html

http://estofex.met.fu-berlin.de/outlook/ht...06281649up.html

 

[Gaetan Cormier]

Originally posted by Andrew Khan
I still do not understand what it is.

If your talking about the arrow, let me explain it to you, maybe you just misunderstood Vincent..

The Arrow point to a rocket that was captured by the author of the photos (here's a close-up:

In France, because of all the wine makers, they need to protect their vines against Hailstones. So during big Supercells, they shoot dozens or so of these rockets into the storm cloud to hopefully destroy or reduce the size of the hailstones so it doesn't damage the vines. It's just that I don't know if there's a chemical product in the rocket payload to help reduce the hail...

Hope this helps

 

[Andrew Khan]

Thank you for explaining this to me, Gaetan. That is very interesting that they do that, but their are so many hail stones, that it would be hard to make ALL of them smaller.

 

[David Draun]

Those are some excellent pictures of a beautiful photogenic storm. It looks almost Lp-ish at times. Great wall cloud and beaver tail. Are those funnel clouds I see?

 

[Andrew Khan]

I believe they are. What the heck is this?