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Photographer Mike Olbinski spent four years chasing storms before he finally found what he was looking for—a giant, rotating thunderstorm known as a “supercell”.
Olbinski captured this beautiful yet terrifying time-lapse of the supercell near Booker, Texas. Supercells usually occur over vast, empty plains such as the Great Plains of North America.
He said, “I've been visiting the Central Plains since 2010. Usually it's just for a day, or three, or two... but it took until the fourth attempt to actually find what I'd been looking for. And boy did we find it”.
“No, there was no tornado. But that's not really what I was after. I'm from Arizona. We don't get structure like this. Clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth”.
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Photographer Mike Olbinski spent four years chasing storms before he finally found what he was looking for—a giant, rotating thunderstorm known as a “supercell”.
Olbinski captured this beautiful yet terrifying time-lapse of the supercell near Booker, Texas. Supercells usually occur over vast, empty plains such as the Great Plains of North America.
He said, “I've been visiting the Central Plains since 2010. Usually it's just for a day, or three, or two... but it took until the fourth attempt to actually find what I'd been looking for. And boy did we find it”.
“No, there was no tornado. But that's not really what I was after. I'm from Arizona. We don't get structure like this. Clouds that rotate and look like alien spacecraft hanging over the Earth”.
Click to watch the video below:
[via Vimeo]