AUG 19,2010- Richmond Hill

[Smokin Joe]

Looking northwest Elgin mills and Leslie

[Smokin Joe]

Looking up into these clouds is amazing..... Big wind gusts had to be 80k not much rain yet

[Smokin Joe]

The main precip missed to my northeast to give me these shots.

[Smokin Joe]

These were all twisting into a centerpoint in the base. Looking up into these clouds it gives major vertical motion visuals almost looking more like a downward motion don't know if it was an illusion or what

[StarryNite]

awesome pics Joe! must have looked amazing in person!

[Itchy]

Originally Posted by Smokin Joe

These were all twisting into a centerpoint in the base. Looking up into these clouds it gives major vertical motion visuals almost looking more like a downward motion don't know if it was an illusion or what

I have noticed a few times a pocket in a shelf cloud that begins to show intense lifting motions causing some cinnamon swirls in the base etc..... Also if a shelf is intense enough there are times it can become inflow dominant again and even become tornadic!

There is an amazing storm in chaseday.com that shows a huge shelf turning back into a massive wall cloud in the archives..... really cool

[Smokin Joe]

I guess what I was seeing was the storm being outflow dominant? It was dying out.....I didn't hear any thunder associated with this but there was a shelf cloud at first.......u can see it in the right side of this pic I think. Anyways some cool clouds for
Not having to go anywhere for once. Hardly a storm but thought I'd share the pics anyways

[Derecho]

Very nice!

[DarkSky]

SmokinJoe: what type of camera are you using? Can it take larger images? Those are great shots but unfortunately I can't tell much from them due to their very small size.

I'd set it so that you're sending at least 1000 pixel-wide images to the site. 1000-1200 wide is usually pretty good, without taking up massive space.

Most people run their PCs at between 1680-1920 wide, so a 1000px wide show will fill most of their screen. The forum is set up to not allow shots much larger than that anyway. (I think I have regular users set to about a 1200px wide maximum)

Cheers!

[Smokin Joe]

Im using an iphone.......my pc needs work so i cant use it or the one at work for any of my own pics........if there is a way to resize them from the iphone let me know........i have an hd video camera but no way to post stuff on here so i just use the iphone for this for now i figure better the little pics than none at all.....i can see how this is frustrating though lol