I used to be scared of thunderstorms. But now I love them after getting used to them last summer in Piedmont and Rapid City, South Dakota and Park City, Utah.
opposite for me. i used to love thunderstorms because i liked chaos and destruction as a kid. i moved to kansas, and saw a tornado for the first time. ever since, thunderstorms are just too normal to be fun.
I wish I had a camera to make videos like this. It was actually relaxing. Seeing those lower clouds suddenly move in from the complete opposite direction was awesome. I wish I coulda recorded the electrical storm we had last weekend. I bet that looked awesome coming in. I like when a storm clears out just before sunset, and everything is highlighted in bright orange or pink. And to think......our worst storms ain't nothing compared to ones on other planets.
@@michaelolsen2348 I’m just using a GoPro, so if you can afford one, it’s a good investment. We’ve had several sunset storms this year that were pretty impressive, there was an orange and purple one last month that was surreal, and a severe storm last year that was magenta. I’ll look for them.
GoPro 8 using a night lapse, except when I moved the camera to the back to get a better view of the strongest storm cell and used the timewarp setting, although I can’t remember what the rate was, maybe x10 or x 15.
@@non-influential Thank you for the information, in fact it was good footage from the rear view, it was actually possible to follow the arrival of the heavy cloud
Where I live, this year spring is more bout dust storms and wildfires than thunderstorms. Sometimes it's June before the big storms come because of the arid conditions
@@non-influential Alberta. Spring is typically very dry, and this year is extremely dry as we came out of a snowless winter, unable to maintain a stable snowpack. Sometimes we get a big storm during the melt in March or April as the air is filled with the moisture of melting snow which is not the case this year. Otherwise it's not until the green up in May when strong thunderstorms begin. During extreme drought it can be well into June before severe thunderstorms would get going. About the only differences between the plains in Alberta and Arizona would be how hot it gets. Temperatures have been just warm enough to get a storm going but the dewpoint is south of -10C(14F) and humidity as low as 10-15%. Further south and east, moisture from large bodies of water such as the gulf of Mexico will trigger outbreaks well before the landscape turns green. The Coriolis effect prevents most of it from curving this far west. It happens but only during the peak of summer when the low level jet is strong enough to curve all the way here. A pattern I call "the dragon's breath" as it resembles a dragon blowing fire on the Rockies on the dewpoint maps.
