Jaw-dropping image of enormous ‘supercell’ cloud in Glasgow, Montana | Mail Online
It looks like something from the film Independence Day.
But although it may seem like an alien mothership, this incredible picture is actually an impressive thunderstorm cloud known as a supercell.
Windswept dust and rain dominate the storm’s centre while rings of jagged clouds surround the edge.
A flimsy tree in the foreground looks like a toy next to the magnificent natural phenomenon.
via Jaw-dropping image of enormous ‘supercell’ cloud in Glasgow, Montana | Mail Online.
I was at the Glasgow airport the summer of ’62 when one of these super cells came over. It caused a lot of damage to aircraft parked outside and caused one cropduster to flip his plane when he tried to land in a cross wind before the big wind let up. One old fabric covered plane had holes punched through from top of the wing to the bottom. A couple of feet of hail piled up in from of the operations building.