A few weather pictures from traveling

Neamhshuntasach

I found a memory card from a phone i had from traveling when i was at college in the states. So got to experience a bit more extreme weather than we get here in Ireland and managed to capture some images. I should have a lot more but i can't find the memory cards. Thought you might appreciate them here.




The above is from Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. There is a phenomenon that happens there where lightning strikes for over 10 hours a night for about 150 days a year or so. An unbelievable sight to see.




I think this is either Caracas or Bogota. I tried to take lots of pictures of lightning at different times and places but was never really that successful as i was only using a mobile phone. If i had of brought my camera i'd have had better ones.




I believe this is Tortuguero in Costa Rica judging by the pictures before and after it on my memory card. If so it took me over an hour to get it before the storm came over the beach and began striking where we had been sitting drinking.




This was in Colorado in June while i was on a road trip to Denver. Found out from the radio that it didn't do much damage and no one was killed.




A storm rolling in over Lake Atitlán in Guatemala. The breeze came from nowhere and it was some of the heaviest rain i ever seen. Mudslides began happening minutes later.




Hurricane Ivan passing by Havana in Cuba. It missed us but battered the Pinar Del Rio province further west.

Paddy.1

Absolutley stunning pictures:eek:. The storm over the lake and the last one in Cuba are overwhelming!!!! You were very lucky to capture such magnificent shots. Thanks for sharing them, they are wonderful.:)

Hal1

Great pics man!, we need more shots like these in here.

Takeshi_Kovacs

Pretty damn good picture for a camera phone..
That Lake Maracaibo is a very interesting place as well, with all that lightning, hopefully i will get to visit it sometime

Supercell

Wow, great pics!, that tornado one would have me over the moon on its own.

Thanks for posting them.

Neamhshuntasach

Takeshi_Kovacs wrote: »

Pretty damn good picture for a camera phone..
That Lake Maracaibo is a very interesting place as well, with all that lightning, hopefully i will get to visit it sometime

Yeah it's a place you should really try get to if you ever find yourself close enough to Venezuela.

The camera was a sony ericsson k750i which was pretty good for back in 2005. The last 3 were taken with a proper digital camera though. I received a package from a mate in San Diego with stuff i had left over there when i left. I have other memory cards here but i'll need to find a camera for them to work on to see whats on them as the one it belonged to got stolen in Lima. I should have some more storm pictures on them and I'll upload if i do.

Hal1

[quote=Neamhshuntasach;55521523 I have other memory cards here but i'll need to find a camera for them to work on to see whats on them as the one it belonged to got stolen in Lima. I should have some more storm pictures on them and I'll upload if i do. [/quote]

You could buy a memory card reader, there cheap enough too €10 - €20.

Neamhshuntasach

Hal1 wrote: »

You could buy a memory card reader, there cheap enough too €10 - €20.

Thanks. I'll have a look at that if they don't work on any of my mates cameras.


Also i think that hurricane might have been actually Wilma.

nacho libre

Those pictures are truly excellent. Thanks for uploading them.

Snowbie

Missed this thread, great snaps.
In this image you have two type of lightning strikes.On the left is a -CG(cloud to ground) and a +CG on the right. The right is the more powerful return strike originating from the surface right upto the top of the cloud.
Remember lightning never strikes down its the return stroke that we witness when negative charges from an electric field created in the base of the cloud meets the positive charge from the ground and returns.Lightning is detected as a sudden change in the static electric field.

In this instance the strike on the right meets the positive charges from the top of the cloud resulting in a more powerful lightning strike.Rare in Ireland.