Actually, according to the weatherman, these did not foretell any bad weather at all! It was a "ribbon" of cool air sandwiched between two layers of warmer air. A lot of moisture was trapped between these layers and formed the clouds you see. About 30 minutes after these were taken it became a beautiful sunny day. The whole thing lasted less than 45 minutes, I missed photographing the first few minutes of it. That was a shame because you could actually watch the whole thing forming. Reminded me of the "Nexus" in one of the Star Trek movies. As I mentioned earlier here it was far more beautiful than frightening. A once in a lifetime thing in Iowa, glad I got to see and record it.
BTW: I'm kinda like the nuts in the movie "Twister", it would be very hard for me to hide in a basement, and miss the spectacle. ;-) Don > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Ann Sanfedele > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 9:19 PM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: PESO:One more cloud. > > > Don Sanderson wrote: > > > > Not quite so heavy handed a conversion: > > > > http://www.dsanderson.com/4.jpg > > > > Don > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > So how far were you from an actual tornado touch down? > > I saw clouds like this in Wyoming back in 1993 - not quite > as spectacular > but really scary as I was driving alone on the highway - > fortunately they were > going the other way and they also faded fairly quickly - but > I do believe it > is the sky saying I might have a tornado coming on. > > ann > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
