Visually spectacular "sculpted" supercell thunderstorm near Woodrow on high plains of eastern Colorado earlier today (6/8/24). This storm featured a blue-green & ground-scraping shelf cloud (& dust storm beneath) so wide I could not fully capture even with wide angle lens! #COwx
This photo is a snapshot from my smartphone camera (those have gotten pretty good, apparently!) but an even wider angle shot from my DSLR will eventually show up on my Instagram account (on which, BTW, I *only* post photographs of clouds!). https://www.instagram.com/weather.west
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@weatherwest Wow, what a picture! Nature is so amazing and fascinating - I never stop being surprised and interested, no matter how devastating it might be for humans, animals or plants.

Mother Nature rocks!  

@weatherwest that must be the storm that the news was warning about
@weatherwest Nothing to see hereโ€ฆ Donโ€™t Look Up! Or Down!
@weatherwest "the one time I need a 10mm fisheye lens"

@weatherwest if you rotate the pic by 180ยฐ it looks like a huge stone falls into water.

Great capture!

@weatherwest While storms do of course have enormous destructive potential a storm like this rolling in overhead just is a very special feeling ๐Ÿ–ค
@weatherwest HOLY SMOKES WOW.... ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿคฉ
@weatherwest wow. That is a *lot* of energy on display.
@weatherwest
๐Ÿ˜ฏ....vilken bild...๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘...โœŒ
@weatherwest Nice pic. If there was a God, and if he had wrath, this would be a manifestation ๐Ÿค”
#physics #chemistry #thermodynamics
@weatherwest that's gorgeous! ๐Ÿ˜