Nature & Wildlife Pictures & Videos
Warm masses of air are coming from the Gulf of Mexico, meet obstacles and rise above the skyscrapers. And at height colder air turns them into the clouds. Then they “slide” down on the opposite walls of buildings, where the clouds heat and then dissipate. Source
If you could sit back and watch clouds and the sky move all night and day, what might you see? One answer from the island of Tenerife, captured over the course of the year, includes sequences that are not only breathtaking but instructive. Visible in the above time-lapse movie include clouds that seem to flow [...]
The aurora borealis/australis is awesome, even from the ground, but seeing the northern lights from space is even more awesome. Source Source
A National Geographic crew was filming elephants in the desert for their amazing series Great Migrations when they were interrupted by a giant 4 hour long sand storm that completely blocked out the sun. Naturally they decided to film from inside it rather than take cover. The result is an amazing video.
The video shows an amazing 15 hour time lapse of the night sky from Paranal Laboratory in Chile.
Mammatus clouds (named for their similarity to a woman’s mammaries) look more like a threatening apocalyptic doom cloud, these images show Mammatus clouds from around the world.
Unlike the Swiss Ice Storm featured a month ago, these pictures show some heavy snowfall. The snow is overtaking cars, buses and even buildings. Source
These pictures show a massive looming sand storm over a military base in Iraq on April 26, 2005.
The video is a little shaky, but at around 1 minute hail the size of softballs starts firing into the pool and it starts to look like something our of a Navy battle movie.
This giant storm took place on July 13, 2009 in South Dakota. The images are from the actual photographer who chased the storm and the shots are fantastic…
