The ingredient based explanation for supercell thunderstorms cites
moisture, wind shear, instability and lift as the reasons for their
formation.
I prefer to focus on the big picture.
Supercell thunderstorms
are a manifestation of nature's attempt to correct an extreme
imbalance.
The ever ongoing effort to reach equilibrium, or entropy, is
what drives all of our weather, and the force with which the atmosphere
tries to correct this imbalance is proportional to the gradient.
In
other words, the more extreme the imbalance, the more extreme the storm.
This collection of timelapses was gathered over the last six years
from Texas to North Dakota and everywhere in between.
The project
started out as wanting to be able to see the life-cycles of these
storms, just for my own enjoyment and to increase my understanding of
them.
Over time, it morphed into an obsession with wanting to document
as many photogenic supercells as I could, in as high a resolution as
possible, as to be able to share with those who couldn't see first-hand
the majestic beauty that comes alive in the skies above America's Great
Plains every Spring.
After more than 100,000 miles on the road and tens
of thousands of shutter clicks later, this is the result.
I hope you
enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed creating it.
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