Shot in Wyoming and South Dakota by photographer Nicolaus Wegner in the summer of 2013, this video for National Geographic is an incredible look into the thunderstorms and mesocyclones — powerful vortexes of air within thunderstorms, creating a supercell — that roll across the northern Great Plains.
In the archives, more storms and these videos:
• Make a cloud in a bottle
• Why So Many Cloud Types? How to identify clouds
• Lightning captured at 7,207 images per second
via Bad Astronomy.
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