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19 May 2014 Sidney, NE Supercell

"Kyle" provides this truly beautiful lapse of the, somewhat famous, supercell that roamed the Nebraska High Plains on 19 May 2014.

Microscopic Lapse of Snow Formation

Very "cool" microscopic lapse of snow formation by a Russian contributor on Vimeo.

"Wyoming Wildscapes II"

Nicolaus Wegner provides this stunning movie of lapses captured over 14 months in arguably one of the most scenic states in the U.S. The last half of the movie has some of the best storm lapses I've seen. Enjoy!

15 November 2013 Australian Supercell

James Chambers of brisbanestorms.com provides this stunning lapse of a supercell near Gold Coast, Australia.

Lake Thunderbird, OK Convective Fog

Jim LaDue captured this lake-effect "steam fog" event in Oklahoma during one of the early-season, cool-air outbreaks that spread across the central U.S. The lapse provides useful illustrations of phase changes, mixing processes, and how lakes and oceans can engender precipitation.

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.