Time Lapse Clouds and Sky Over the Canary Islands

Canary Islands Time Lapse

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 [...]

Northern Lights from Space

Aurora Borealis from Space

The aurora borealis/australis is awesome, even from the ground, but seeing the northern lights from space is even more awesome. Source Source

One year in 40 seconds

1 year in 40 seconds

A time-lapse compilation of images showing the same spot throughout the year, it’s pretty fantastic to see the changes that the landscape goes through over just 1 year’s time. One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

Inside a Desert Sand Storm

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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.

Landslide

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This video is a compilation of some epic land/mud/rock slides. It’s pretty amazing to see a bunch of dirt toss around trees, cars, and even houses.

Mammatus clouds

Mammatus Clouds

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.

Iraq Sand Storm

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These pictures show a massive looming sand storm over a military base in Iraq on April 26, 2005.

Huge Hail Hits Pool

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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.

Massive Midwest Storm

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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…

Ice Storm

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These pictures show the aftermath of a January 2005 ice storm in Geneva, Switzerland. Temperatures were reported to be around 14° F with winds up to 60 MPH.