Skylapse.org: 17 July 2010 Tornadofest

Chaser friend Skip Talbot created this lapse ... probably my favorite storm lapse to date. This one really hurts ... since I busted (in relative terms) near Storm Lake, IA. A remarkable lapse that illustrates many, many storm-scale features -- a must show for any mesoscale course. The "heat" ramps up about 3:45 pm. Hold on to your chair!

Purpose

The skylapse.org blog is a collection of video embeds, animated gifs, and other illustrations that reveal atmospheric features that may be normally subtle or elusive in real-time, but come to life when the time-lapse technique is applied. The sole intention of creating the blog was to generate a library of ready-to-use visual atmospheric illustrations for pedagogical purposes. While some of the imagery in the blog is my own, most are derived from video sharing sites and, subsequently, embedded or hyperlinked. Please use the "labels" feature below to quickly find examples of phenomena.