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NEW!

Vince Doran from Western Australia recently sent me these stunning images taken whilst chasing.  Beautiful lightning shots and they highlight the wonderful paths it takes as it finds earth!  Vince's images promote drama, power and wonderful colors.  All photos used with permission & copyright Vince Doran, Fathom Productions.

 

 

 


Rowland Beardsell here in Darwin snapped these awesome strikes whilst chasing.  Rowland is an observer with our weather bureau and travels interstate to regional and city weather centers undertaking observations.  These images were taken from Nightcliff Jetty.

 

 

and this also from Rowland taken from Batchelor Airport about 70km south of Darwin one evening chasing some active storms.  How do you like your cows, fried?

 

Samantha McPhee from Darwin got some incredible images from the past few days in Darwin during some insane lightning displays.  These images were also taken from Nightcliff Jetty here in Darwin and these are first attempts!!  Truly inspirational stuff.

 

 

Renate Wilke, a fellow chaser from Germany also captured a rarely seen lightning type that is not often photographed...upward lightning!  I've never seen it and never photographed it, so I'm pretty excited about posting this image here!


Darinka Braidotti and her husband Mick and son, Michael were in Darwin chasing in January 2009 and she captured this ripper CG over Darwin at 3am!  They live in Wollongong New South Wales in Australia and chase supercells regularly. They're regular visitors to Darwin during the storm seasons and have become great friends of ours.

A few shots of mine the other day 2008/9 with large storms and wicked turbulence!  It's the first time I've seen this type of thing...downdraft wind expanding the cloud base and actually opening the 'dome' like something akin to a space craft!  Insane!

Twin lightning strikes photographed through the windscreen of the car returning home from a chase - blinding heavy rain and constant CG's - nabbed this great shot whilst driving!

 

 


 

NEW! Brisbane and Sydney on the east coast of Australia have been getting some very severe storms (supercells mainly inland) with massive 7cm hail, wild winds and even a tornado.  Paul Head was visiting the Gold Coast in Brisbane recently and captured these fantastic lightning images from a storm offshore.  He was certainly in the right place.  I've got one more to post but I'm having trouble loading it, but I'll add it soon!  Thanks for Paul's wife Ajsa for sending them to me so I can show the world!  Here they are and very well done Paul - you should become a storm chaser!

 

 

 


 

 


Mike R from Canada sent me this image below from Taylor district in Red Deer, Alberta.  Mike had taken several lightning photos from an insane storm that produced some of the best lightning action I have seen in a long time.  Many thanks for Mike for allowing me to post this photo (image subject to copyright)




 Rob MacDonald from Manitoba, Canada sent me these recent pics from July 2008 of some lightning in a wonderful thunderstorm he chased.  Manitoba made the headlines a little while ago when it got hit by an F5 tornado...(Images subject to copyright)




(Above image shows beautiful composition with the upswept areas of the cloud)



(A very picturesque strike)



(Image above is my personal favorite - fantastic photo.)
The following photos are supplied by Michael Bath from Northern Rivers in New South Wales, Australia.  Michael is an active and vastly experienced storm chaser and you can view Michael's photos and video footage at  australiansevereweather.com.au &  http://www.lightningphotography.com/



















The following photos are a selection from renowned storm chaser Jimmy Deguara from New South Wales, Australia also.  Jimmy's expertise in storm chasing and observation is well documented, he travels each year to the USA to Tornado Alley..  You can view more of his photos/videos at http://australiasevereweather.com/photography/jimmydeguara.html and australiansevereweather.com.au  One photo in particular is a damaged house from the U.S Greensburg EF5 tornado in 2007.










Here's two photos from  Kenny A and Mik L from Canada.  Very long CG that is nice and clean.  Wonderful shot of a supercell, note the cloud base also.   Kenny' sites are at http://edmontonweatherservice.co.nr.or/ or http://ews.pcriot.com/






Three wonderful photos below of a supercell on the east coast of Australia - big anvil and structure, also a photo of great mammatus cloud. Karina lives on the mid/western side of the Gold Coast.








Insane lightning photos sent by Shaun Galman from Lightning Ridge NSW - http://ridgelightning.com. Massively strong strikes and no shortage of vantage points!

 Here's some excellent photos from storm chasers  Darinka Braidotti and her husband from Dapto in New South Wales, Australia.   Great lighting shots - even daytime shots are hard enough to capture but Darinka has the knack for photographing them. Classic CGs and text book streamer lightning in the second last shot.  Her photos are copyrighted also, so email me if you want permission to use them and I will contact her. 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 


 

 

Here's a few shots of mine as a storm approached Darwin City last year 2007.  Note the low cloud base and shelf cloud appearing in the front and the rain/gust front coming!



 

Donated shot by someone who wants to remain annonymous from the  Northern Territory photographed this waterspout at Dundee Beach on a fishing charter boat on 24 December 2007.  I was out the same day hunting water spouts as the wind shear that day was insane and you'd think one would be around...it was but not in Darwin, more about 50km or so to the west!  Fantastic shot of something that is rarely seen at full length in Darwin.


 


Jacci-Rose Ingham who lives in Darwin sent me this brilliant photo of a shelf cloud associated with an afternoon thunderstorm as it passed over Darwin harbour.  Just beautiful storm structure as it highlights the layering and wedge formation on the gust front.

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Marcus Diaz. photographed this supercell thunderstorm taken on April 20, 2007 in Hereford, Texas. The storm itself produced golf ball sized hail in Dawn, TX..  This is a fantastic image that shows supercell qualities - structure, size, updraught power and the colours are great.