Category: Observations
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Twisters
Dust Devils: There are basically three kinds of twisters, hurricane, tornado, and dust devils. Hurricane originates over warm ocean water in tropical late summer. Tornado occurs along with thunderstorms, between cold and warm air masses. Dust devil, on the other hand, comes on typical clear sunny days, and, unlike hurricanes and tornadoes, it is mostly…
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Lightning Slow Motion
Following videos were created with frame-by-frame clips from youtube video Lightning Strike at 103,000 FPS, created by @theslowmoguys. The original video was taken at 28.5K frames per second, or at 35 micro-seconds interval, and plays at 24 frames per second. Even when it is played at 1000 times slower details of lightening can still be…