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Published: 2004-07-17 23:24:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 10215; Favourites: 236; Downloads: 728
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Today, it was a very hot, humid, almost suffocating summer day, at the end of which a serious thunderstorm rolled over the entire country. You could litterally see the storm front rolling overhead... it looked really weird, like a wall of clouds was quickly closing in and filling up the evening sky...Ok, you'll never again hear me say that the sky in Holland is completely uninterresting
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weather is so unpredictable. thats the beauty of it. I remember I used to live in Fort Lauderdale Florida and everyday, the sky would be different. very nice, photograph!
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That is a cool pic you got of the clouds, its as though I'm there looking at it?
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Thanks, and thanks for the 
I'm glad that the photo makes you feel like you're there, that's quite a compliment, it was a bit of a lucky shot, to be honest...
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magnificent sky indeed.
well done
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Thanks
And now I'll be adding some of your works to my fav-list; I stumbled upon your gallery earlier today, but I had to finish my work-day, so I added you to my devwatch, if you don't mind
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i totally see a couple of faces in that cloud lol
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lol
Hmmm, I never looked at it that way... but now that you mention it...
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Always see your name at Liek's place (she my aunt) Never came here to take a look myselve.
Great work.
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Thanks, and thanks for the
Next time you see your aunt in person, say "hi" to her from me, ok?
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Thanks, and thanks for the
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WOW! Amazing how strong it looks like <33
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Yups, I thought so too... it was rather overwhelming, made me feel pretty insignificant, kinda like a tiny ant
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Thats a wonderful shot,truly amazing!
But this remind me the last summer when my mother I went out to take a walk, and then suddenly such a similar cloud appeared on the sky,and we immediately ran home like fools.
In Luxembourg these things are also very rare...
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*grin*
I can imagine that you'd get to a shelter as soon as possible when seeing a thing like this
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This image is being featured in my journal for JANUARY 2006.
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Hehe, it was even more scary for someone living in a country where these sort of things usually never happen
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Thanks, and thanks for the 
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Thanks
You have some very pretty shots in your gallery as well
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that's not real, that's sooooooooo awsome!!!!!!!!! my god that a perfect shot...i have no words 
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Oh, it's real allright... I didn't know what I was seeing either; this kind of stuff usually NEVER happens here in Holland... thanks for the compliment though
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wow, holland, that's so random! but its amazingly beautiful and you deserve more than a comment like that for a picture soo awsome
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Thanks, it was just a lucky shot though... if my parents hadn't informed me that I should grab my camera, I'd probably have missed it altogether, I was far more busy with listening to music and computering
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parents, what would be do without them?
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Probably still suck on our thumbs and eating way more candy than that's good for us
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=nnys-daughter said: "That's actually literally called a "wall cloud", and you're right to be scared, those things can harbor tornadoes. "
I have to correct that it is not a wallcloud it is a shelfcloud. You can see here a grafic of a thunderstorm [link] you can see the wallcloud is located in the updraft part of a thunderstorm, an you can see it only when the thunderstorm has already passed you. The Shelfcloud is in front of a Thunderstorm.
Here is a picture of a Shelfcloud: [link] and here is one of a wallcloud [link] it is right that a tornado comes out of that but on your picture i see a shelfcloud.
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that's a shelf cloud coming in my friend and breaking off and creating roll clouds...FYI
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That's actually literally called a "wall cloud", and you're right to be scared, those things can harbor tornadoes. The formation of a wall cloud or mesocyclone foreshadows the formation of a tornado, though they're very rare. Usually you just get a lot of wind and rain or hail.
What a nice shot! I love the aqua color radiating down from the clouds! And the view, few weather photographers are brave enough to get that close.
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Well, since the clouds were passing straight over my house, I didn't really have much choice as far as "getting close" is concerned 
But it *was* something I had never seen before though, so exciting nevertheless
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I wouldn't expect a tornado in Holland either, but stranger things have happened, albiet rarely.
Tornadoes have occured in ever country and on every day of the year (not both though), except jan. 16.
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Hehe, you seem to know quite a few things about tornadoes
I've dug up some statistics, and a tornado occurs in Holland about once per century; even then, it's never anything stronger than an F0 tornado on the Fujita scale, so that's (luckily) in no comparisation to the "real" tornadoes that occur in the US or similar countries which frequently suffer from tornadoes.
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Yeah, Holland wouldn't have that kind of weather. The midwest USA is perfectly set up, with land and sea on either side, for severe storms...
Here in washinton state, we get 3-4 tornadoes a year, usually an F-2 or F-3... and a few funnel clouds.
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Hehe, it looked more dangerous than it actually was...
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Waarom heb ik deze nooit eerder gezien??
Geweldig was dat hiero?
Niks van gezien
Super shot
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Jups, dit was een staaltje natuurgeweld in Nederland
Heeft toch redelijk uitgebreid in kranten en dergelijke gestaan... 'k heb nog wat meer foto's op internet gevonden:
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