Originally posted by sharkbait: those are unreal!! Are they real?
is it just me or was that like an oxymoron or something? maybe just a stupid question? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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Sorry to be the geek, but I gotta agree with RL. Those look like supercells. To see a hurricane in the center, you would be well in it - with rain and winds. If you were IN the center, you would see a wall of clouds all around you. Or so the documentaries tell me.
Maybe pics once it moved over land and broke apart and spawned tornadoes?
Yeah, not real sure.. just got it sent to me via email from a friend. It just said that they were taken from an agent in Texas and we're of Katrina making landfall. Don't know if that's what it is or not.
Having seen a hurricane come through, those look like regular thunderstorms. Hurricanes just look like grey, overcast days when they start rolling in. The only time you see a line of clouds is either WAY out from the storm or in the eye.
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i've seen the sky right before hurricane andrew came to florida (it made landfall over night) and i will never forget the vividness of all of the colors. it was orange and then greens and grays it was wild!even though i was young, that was one of the most gorgeous things i've ever seen
I agree with RL and K. I can't see that amount of farms and flat land near the coast. Maybe I'm crazy, but that could be 30 miles from my house, and not 30 miles from the Gulf.
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Gotta agree with the others. These look like classic midwestern T-storms and tornadoes. And the geography DEFINITELY says "Great Plains" to me.
They're still striking photos, though.
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Cool pics, but I don't think those are from the hurricane. I spent the first 1/2 of the week watching the last hurricane drift by. See those trees standing straight up in those pictures? Well, they wouldn't be if it were a hurricane. They'd be swaying back and forth pretty violently. Plus the clouds look different from what you'd see in a hurricane. They'd be more streaked and heading in the same direction. Although hurricanes can spawn tornados, these pictures seem to show tornados without any evidence of a hurricane.
These are not photos of Hurricane Katrina. There aren't big wide open cornfields on the MS or LA Gulf Coasts. LOL. Most are from Iowa and are supercell thunderstorms. There's supposed to be a description of the actual location of the photos at snopes.com.
Cool pics, although by now you know that's not a hurricane. Definely a supercell. I just moved from Florida and a hurricane is a summer storm amplified. Fantastic pics tho', extremely vivid. Thanks for sharing...mother nature is so cool!
They are pretty similar to the pics taken up here in the late spring/ Early summer up here when we were having biblical rains.
I'm not near the coast, and also live in a plain type area.
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Extreme weather, not a 'cane. I just saw a 'cane (Ophelia), and what I saw was: (this from my spot in Buxton)
Saturday - overcast, very gloomy (outer band)
Sunday - overcast in am, then a little sun.
Monday - sunny, you could see some rain bands to the S/SW).
Tuesday - more bands to the east. well what do you know, one of those bands caught us surfing, it went from being offshore to sideshore and NASTY in minutes. got blown off of my board tryin to make it in. the rain passed in 15 minutes, the offshores resumed like nothing ever happened.
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