{"id":97,"date":"2008-07-12T18:13:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T23:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/?p=97"},"modified":"2023-03-20T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T15:55:08","slug":"awesomulonimbus-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/2008\/07\/12\/awesomulonimbus-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesomulonimbus Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something which you could have seen if you were in Chicago on July 10th, 2008.  Which, circumstance of circumstances, I was!  I popped in somewhere for a restroom break, and it was super nice out.<\/p>\n<p>When I popped back out (that&#8217;s how I enter and leave buildings &#8212; popping), I saw this bad boy coming at me real fast:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2836.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2836-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"That is a wall of solid storm comin atcha.\" title=\"That is a wall of solid storm comin atcha.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2836-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2836-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2836-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2836-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2836-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"It could be CG, but it's so not.  It is real.\" title=\"It could be CG, but it's so not.  It is real.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2835-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right after I pulled out my camera, I felt the wind picking up quite a bit and heard tornado sirens whir to life.  I only had time to snag those two shots before it was overhead.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"These are known as struthionimbus clouds.\" title=\"These are known as struthionimbus clouds.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2837-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a large overhanging Shelf of Swirling Stormy Darkness.  It was moving incredibly fast and super low, and the coulds right behind it were very confused, swirling around like crazy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2838.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2838-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"This formation is known as a cumuloswirlus cloud.\" title=\"This formation is known as a cumuloswirlus cloud.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2838-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2838-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2838-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2838-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2838-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"What you miss in these shots is the amazing moving 3-D-ness of all of this.\" title=\"What you miss in these shots is the amazing moving 3-D-ness of all of this.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2839-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2840.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2840-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Another shot of some spinnostratus clouds.\" title=\"Another shot of some spinnostratus clouds.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2840-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2840-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2840-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2840-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2840-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, after the initial wall passed, the cloads went up quite a ways.  I felt like I was in a giant cloud dome.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"A frisbee!  That's the simile I want.  It looks like a giant dangerous cloud frisbee.\" title=\"A frisbee!  That's the simile I want.  It looks like a giant dangerous cloud frisbee.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2841-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During these shots the wind was starting to whip things about, and it became markedly cooler.  Not long after the above shot, the rain began to start.  I&#8217;ll leave you with perhaps my favorite shot:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2842.jpg\" rel=\"shadowbox[album]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2842-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"This combination of spinnostratus and cumuloswirlus clouds is called an altocirronimbulus.\" title=\"This combination of spinnostratus and cumuloswirlus clouds is called an altocirronimbulus.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2842-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2842-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2842-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2842-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/zachbardon.com\/tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_2842-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just thought you all might enjoy seeing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something which you could have seen if you were in Chicago on July 10th, 2008. 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