Anvil crawler
by Oliver Schlenczek, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany
This kind of lightning is often observed from squall line thunderstorms. In this case, a squall line with a length of more than 1000 miles crossed the Central Plains of the United States. This photo was captured in Okmulgee, Oklahoma in the wake of the thunderstorm, looking southward.
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- North America (751)
- Northern America (588)
- United States of America (391)
- Exact location (-95.9601 W, 35.6105 N)
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1800 × 1200 px;
image/jpeg; 1.2 MB
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Canon EOS 450D
Taken on 16
May
2009
Submitted on 28 February 2015
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Oliver Schlenczek (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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