Clearly, the subway is now closed. (Taken with picplz in New York, NY.)
Damn Nature U Scary of the Day: A tornado forms live on the air just outside downtown Springfield, Mass., over the Connecticut River.
Extensive damage to buildings and cars is being reported, though no word on casualties as of yet.
A tornado watch remains in place for much of New England until 8PM this evening.
[wwlp.]
I have no idea if this picture is real and I don’t care!
(Source: not-officialtumblrskateboarding, via wehavehopelikeananchor)
Flash…ahaaa!
Seen from the Vatnajökull ice cap, lightning streaks through an ash cloud billowing from the erupting Grímsvötn volcan
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This combination of two satellite images provided by GeoEye and MJ Harden shows, above, an area of Joplin, Mo. which includes a view of the Joplin High School toward the upper right hand corner of the frame, taken in August of 2009 and, below, the same area of Joplin is shown, including the high school, taken Tuesday May 24, 2011, two days after a devastating tornado tore through the city, killing at least 122 people. (AP Photo/Aerial imagery courtesy of MJ Harden, a GeoEye Company)
(Source: BuzzFeed)
This photo of the sky over downtown Kansas City, MO, was taken today at around 1:00 pm Central by Gary Lezak, a local television meteorologist. (via Tornado weather - Boing Boing)
This is frightening. Severe weather cut throw the midwest again this evening. Sparing Jolpin briefly but hitting other parts of Oklahoma and Kansas. (via Tornado Kills 2 Near Oklahoma City | The High Definite)
Close Call of the Day: Storm chaser William Phuoc and his buddies happened to be in the right place at the right time to capture footage of a spectacular cloud-to-ground lightning strike.
200 meters to the left, and it would have been particularly apt that this shoot took place in Darwin, Australia.
Check out the resultant snapshot here.
[petapixel.]
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Explosions In The Sky of the Day: Dozens of cloud-to-ground lightning strikes in Tarrant County caused multiple to transformers to explode in east Fort Worth, providing a fantastic light show for area residents as “fireballs” filled the night sky.
[video: doobybrain.]
Unprecedented rainfall might not be as flashy as tornadoes but the aftermath is just as devastating. With some places receiving over six inches of rain a day, entire communities in Kentuckiana and beyond are completely submerged.
Wall St. Journal : STORMY WEATHER: View of Manhattan looking south through a tinted window Thursday afternoon as a thunderstorm made its way across the city. A sunny weekend is predicted for the New York area.
Tornado Outbreak Update: As the fatality count from yesterday’s record-breaking tornado outbreak continues to rise — nearly 200 as of 10AM, with 128 in Alabama alone — attention turns to the devastation left in the wake of 155 reported twisters (to compare, the average number of tornadoes for the entire month of April is 163).
Entire blocks leveled, and hundreds of thousands without power. “I don’t know how anyone survived,” Mayor Walter Maddox of hard-hit Tuscaloosa told CNN.
As the storm cell moves east and up the seaboard, The National Weather Service has issued tornado warnings in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York.
