A Beautiful Timelapse Video Of A Rotating Thunderstorm In Texas

Thursday, June 13, 2013 - 14:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Slow down a supercell, add some angelic music, and it almost looks welcoming. Supercells are tornado-like, rotating thunderstorms. They can be terrifying. But this timelapse, taken by photographer Mike Olbinski in north Texas, is actually lovely. Over at his blog, Olbinski explains how he, with the help of a friend, caught the video, which is split into four parts: The first section ends because it started pouring on us. We should have been further south when we started filming but you never know how long these things will last, so I started the timelapse as soon as I could. One thing to note early on in the first part is the way the rain is coming down on the right and actually being sucked back into the rotation. Amazing. A few miles south is where part two picks up. And I didn't realize how fast it was moving south, so part three is...

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