16 Photos Of Terrifying Weather That Make Me Feel Very, Very, Very, Very Small
1.These arcus clouds looming over Cincinnati in 2022 that looked like a tsunami.
Arcus clouds are horizontal clouds that are associated with severe thunderstorms, high winds, and hail.
2.This hail from San Luis Potosí, Mexico in 2019 that were the size of melons.
3.This 100% grade-A genuinely horrifying waterspout off the coast of Carolina Beach, North Carolina that...
...came onto land and turned into a tornado in 2011.
4.These lightning sprites over a supercell in Hay Springs, Nebraska, which I can definitely see people mistaking for an alien invasion.
Lightning sprites happen in Earth's mesosphere 50 miles into the air. They're triggered when lightning hits the ground and are formed to quickly disperse the electricity vertically. While they aren't a unique weather phenomenon, they are incredibly hard to catch on camera because they usually only happen for 1/10 of a second.
5.This wind turbine that wilted from the gusts of a Texas tornado in 2022.
6.The forest fires in Spain and Portugal in 2017 that created enough ash to block out the sun in parts of the UK and France.
7.Fire again? Nope. These skies are from a sandstorm that engulfed Dubai in 2018.
8.This sinkhole in Naples, Italy in 2021 that collapsed in a hospital parking lot.
9.This lightning coming from the volcano Eyjafjallajokull's erupting cone in Iceland in 2010.
10.The American side of Niagara Falls almost completely frozen over during a cold snap in 2018.
11.This fire whirl during the California wildfires of 2020.
In case you're not versed in weather terms, a fire whirl is a fire tornado.
12.This massive landslide caused by a magnitude 7 earthquake in Hokkaido, Japan in 2018.
13.This heat wave in Rovaniemi, Finland (Santa's official home town) in 2018 that caused the reindeer to hit the beach.
14.The unprecedented storm surge from Hurricane Ian in 2022 on Fort Myers Beach, Florida.
15.This downburst in Texas from 2019 that is honestly terrifying.
A downburst is when a large core of rain falls rapidly to the ground.
16.And finally, this haboob approaching Khartoum, Sudan in 2017.
Haboobs are large-scale dust storms that most commonly occur in the Sahara.
