Photo topic: Storm and all other weather

Heron · Post by **Heron** » 27 Jul 2008, 00:17

Goodmeurnin',

Although the weather forecast didn't look promising, I still took a friend to the Joure Balloonfest on saturday evening.
I had already visited the event on wednesday evening (some pictures can be found HERE), but this time there was a snag...

Normally the first balloon starts around 20:00 hours, but at 19:38 I made this picture:

At 19:41 hours it looked like a scene from the motion picture "Independence Day":

And at 19:45 the view was like this. The little dark cloud in the middle of the picture floats exactly over the starting field:

After that I found it better to go sit and find shelter in my car...

Greetingsenzo,
Bert.

Post by **Key** » 27 Jul 2008, 00:36

Stephan Lodewijks · Post by **Stephan Lodewijks** » 27 Jul 2008, 09:45

Very impressive sight, especially what's captured on photo number 2!!! And you're right, you don't need a lot of imagination to recognise a scene from a certain film in that one!!

Regards,

Stephan

Jan Stol · Post by **Jan Stol** » 27 Jul 2008, 15:39

Hope the moderator doesn't really mind..

Same cloud from a little different perspective. I surely have seen some days with better weather

Question: Clouds like this are called 'rolwolken', am I right? (Key, I think you should know?)

Grtz, Jan

Post by **Key** » 27 Jul 2008, 23:21

Correct Jan, rotor cloud in English if I'm not mistaken. They sometimes precede heavy showers. Impressive photo!

Erik

hammie · Post by **hammie** » 28 Jul 2008, 22:40

The name of the cloud is roll cloud ( rol wolk )
One hour ago Thundercloud developing above my apartment

Jan Stol · Post by **Jan Stol** » 28 Jul 2008, 22:56

Holy smoke

That's more like a painting, nicely spotted!

Aviaphotos · Post by **Aviaphotos** » 28 Jul 2008, 23:17

My god, very nice!!!!!

Regards,

Pim

Post by **Key** » 29 Jul 2008, 08:27

hammie wrote:The name of the cloud is roll cloud ( rol wolk )

Checking some resources, I get: the name is rotor cloud, sometimes referred to as roll cloud. Oh well, what's in a name.

One hour ago Thundercloud developing above my apartment

Fantastic!!

Erik

Sowald · Post by **Sowald** » 30 Jul 2008, 02:33

A little storm we had last week here in Canada.
And no, the extra lights are no UFO`s.
No idea how to prevent this.
Any ideas??????

cHabu · Post by **cHabu** » 30 Jul 2008, 02:51

Hiya,

I was probably not that far from where Bert was (Exit Joure-West, on top of the over-pass) and made two with the compact camera, just before we went back to the camping in De Veenhoop.

I also have two short movies but am not sure those are allowed here... (Key ?)

Thankfully i did make some pics on Friday (not online yet).

Hope next year will be better...

Bye, Chris.

Javindo50 · Post by **Javindo50** » 30 Jul 2008, 10:55

Sowald wrote:And no, the extra lights are no UFO`s.
No idea how to prevent this.
Any ideas??????

Could be the reflections of a UV-filter used (in case you had one in use on your lens).

Sowald · Post by **Sowald** » 30 Jul 2008, 15:01

Thanks Rob,

I indeed use a UV filter.
Next time I will try without it.

Thanks very much,

Rob.

Tropical · Post by **Tropical** » 30 Jul 2008, 15:04

In the beginning of the night it looked like this all the time:

I've never seen it as heavy as this!

mipo72 · Post by **mipo72** » 01 Aug 2008, 16:33

Hi,

I saw you are searching for the name from a " roll cloud " or in Dutch Rolwolk.

As far as i know the name from those clouds is " Shelfcloud ".

Bye the way some very nice photos you all made.
i realy like the lightning shots.

Grt,
Michel
(Weer terug van vakantie uit de Achterhoek).