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Meant to tell you, Quasi, that lightning map you linked to was fascinating.

Ya, can sit and gawk at it for hours :+) …it’s good to tell where the real storm action is at.

Those clouds mean business, yes they do.

Shouldn’t be at all surprised. That there’s a wall cloud, and the tail is going vertical. Tornado probability about 80%.

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Brought back some memories. “Sending out for type”, stats, etc.

Cheerio!

Righteous weather, that’s what it is!

I still remember the storm that sank the EDMUND FITZGERALD. The town in Wisconsin I lived in at the time was 400 miles from the sinking site, but we had sustained 80 mph winds, even so. Gas stations had metal signs mounted on springs at the corners of the lots, to advertise cigarettes, gallons of milk, etc. he wind kept them pressed flat aginst the pavement of the lots.

That resembles a wall cloud, precursor to a tornado. Bing image search offers a nice selection, but this one looks closest to yours.

Here’s another good one of the storm coming in over Camber Beach.

I direct your attention above the cloud bank to what look like three flat, smooth disks of clous. They’re a little hard to make out in this shot, but that’s what was most striking about the storm by the time it got to us (we’re several miles inland from the sea). It was like a big orange buzz-saw blade.

Helluva thing.

One morning several years ago I was driving into work and saw the most ominous wall of black cloud in the east that seemed to go up to the stratosphere. It looked like Orodruin was hiding in that thing. It was long, too, stretching north and south as far as I could see from the top of an overpass, and it looked to me as if it was a curtain (a huge, black, threatening curtain) separating California’s Central Valley from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The sun was rising behind it and it was really amazing. I’ve never seen anything like it in these parts–totally clear where I was, and then THAT in front of me.

I really love weather that is interesting and just on this side of dangerous.

Where I live, you get a $500 fine if your sprinkler runoff hits the gutters. We’re in a drought, due to Global Warming. A couple clouds like that would be nice to see, assuming there was some rain in ’em and not just pretty colors.

We have actually had a few sprinkles come through the last few days, which is highly unusual for July in these parts. But, yeah, $500 fines and ratting out your neighbors is all the rage these days.

There was rain later in the night, but that thing didn’t have much in it. Just a few ripe splats.

Found this picture of your storm on reddit. Looks amazing, but I suspect the colors were tweaked a bit.