Stormy Germany

[Matteo CalzÃ]

Wonderful pics of the yesterday storms in Germany ! My goodness, what Shelf clouds ...

http://www.gewitterwelt.de/temp/4.jpg

http://www.gewitterwelt.de/temp/7.jpg

http://www.subway-toolbox.com/kk/DSC00830.JPG

http://www.subway-toolbox.com/kk/DSC00833.JPG

http://www.pixum.de/int/img.php?u=andreher...4&ts=12616&np=1

http://www.pixum.de/int/img.php?u=andreher...4&ts=12616&np=1

http://www.pixum.de/int/img.php?u=andreher...4&ts=12616&np=1

http://img40.photobucket.com/albums/v122/a...uis/17juli5.jpg

http://img40.photobucket.com/albums/v122/a...uis/17juli1.jpg

http://www.meteopics.de/bilder/13.jpg

http://www.meteopics.de/bilder/15.jpg

http://www.meteopics.de/bilder/18.jpg

http://www.meteopics.de/bilder/14.jpg


Gretz :shock:

 

[Laura Duchesne]

Wow those are amazing shots! I had no idea Germany had such photogenic storms. Very scenic over there too! Thanks for sharing! 8)

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

That's quite cool! However -- Germany must have like a hundred castles dotted all over the country. If I lived in Germany and I knew a shelf cloud was coming, I'd run, not walk, to the nearest castle. Imagine a shelf cloud rolling in with a castle as the foreground!

-Ryan

 

[Richard Halter]

Germany can get some awesome storms. Munich was struck by a hail storm in the mid 80's that was almost as damaging as the Dallas hail storm from 1995?

 

[Matteo CalzÃ]

Germany can get some awesome storms. Munich was struck by a hail storm in the mid 80's that was almost as damaging as the Dallas hail storm from 1995?

Yea, july 12th, 1984 ...

http://www.naturgewalten.de/hagel840712.htm

 

[Tim Vasquez]

Germany is where my interest in meteorology/storms began, with a squall line that truly appeared "out of the blue" back in 1976 . The anvil was being carried perfectly parallel with the line, perhaps even behind it, which is something I've rarely seen here in the U.S. The first thing I saw that punctuated the blue sky was an arcus cloud and a white wall of Cb. Twenty minutes later hail covered everything.

They do get some good ones in Germany.

Tim

 

[Bridget Beddow]

Clouds

Those are some amazingly beautiful shots - The color in them is gorgeous!

 

[Matteo CalzÃ]

Ohoh ... look this Meso that was on Berlin an half hour ago ! nice funnel without contact with the soil, but heavy rotation

http://prognose.met.fu-berlin.de/pub/meso1.jpeg

Pic of Jan Hoffman

 

[Bernard Hulshof]

Ohoh ... look this Meso that was on Berlin an half hour ago ! nice funnel without contact with the soil, but heavy rotation

More tornadoes in western Germany last Sunday:
[Broken External Image]:http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,372619,00.jpg
[Broken External Image]:http://www.skywarn-nrw.de/Tornado180704_part3.jpg
More pictures/movies of this storm and it's aftermath:
http://www.stormcenter.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24

The shelf cloud mentioned in the original post, formed over The Netherlands. The squall line had a length of about 750 km. Some pictures:
http://www.meteonet.nl/fotoverslag17072004.htm

The day before yesterday, multiple water- and landspouts formed over The Netherlands: [Broken External Image]:http://www.weatherpictures.50g.com/pictures/temp/spout.jpg

On July 8, I encountered a rotating wall cloud during a chase in The Netherlands:
[Broken External Image]:http://www.weatherpictures.50g.com/pictures/2004/07/t08072004023.jpg

Yes, Europe does get it's share of severe weather
Estofex (http://www.estofex.org) recently started collecting European severe weather reports. They only just started, so not many reports so far, but keep an eye on it!

Bernard