Severe weather

[Mark W]

Saw this photo and had to share.


I suppose for the crew, the locomotive cab would be the safest place in a storm, yes? 

[Philip H]

I'm pretty sure it was part of this storm:



And given the wind speed and forcing vectors in a funnel that size . . . I'd say the safest place is as far away as possible at Run 8 - you could get thrown off the tracks by that thing.

But what do I know - I'm an oceanographer. 

[GaryHinshaw]

Whoa. That looks like something you would see on Jupiter.

[C855B]

Funny, in storm training they didn't discuss what to do if you were in a locomotive during an approaching tornado. I'll have to pose that scenario during the next refresher session.

[conrail98]

That's where magnetic uncouplers on the main come in handy,   

[delamaize]

Saw this photo and had to share.


I suppose for the crew, the locomotive cab would be the safest place in a storm, yes?

rejected by railpictures.net sky is too cloudy, locomotive slightly out of focus, headlights washed out. 1/10, would not bang.  ( can't resist sometimes)

Although, I think it's an awesome shot

[Dave V]

That collar cloud structure is not uncommon for a low-precip mesocyclone, but it's rare to get it all in one shot like that.  It's a pretty high base too.  I imagine when it gusted out it did some microburst damage.

I should also caveat that if it did produce a funnel, it's not evident in either picture.  In the train pic I see a rain shaft and perhaps microburst activity, but I'm not convinced that "stuff" behind the train is a funnel cloud or tornado.  What I think you're seeing is the collar cloud.  Very obvious, tight, low-level rotation though.  Must have looked impressive on Doppler.

But what do I know...  I'm just a meteorologist.   

[davefoxx]

Instead of, "Go home, train, you're drunk," I'm thinking, "Get the hell outta there!"   

[Dave Schneider]

I caught this video via Slate a couple of days ago.

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Looks very similar to the one in the photo, but that doesn't surprise me.
But what do I know....I'm just a volcanologist. 

[John]

Ehh .. not all that impressive .. I've seen worse ..

But what do I know .. I'm just an ex Navy Meteorologist / Oceanographer who had a rock collection once, and now does computer security 

[Mark W]

All you weatherologists might enjoy this one I took about a week ago. 


If you look really close, you can see the red crossing lights where the tree line breaks on the right, so, yeah.  Still somewhat train related.

[tappertrainman]

All of the above look terrifying to this California boy.

But what do I know, I just work in accounting.

[John]

All you weatherologists might enjoy this one I took about a week ago. 


If you look really close, you can see the red crossing lights where the tree line breaks on the right, so, yeah.  Still somewhat train related.

awesome shot .. time exposure?

[Mark W]

Shot a timelapse of 20 seconds per frames and then composited each frame that had a strike into a single image.

[peteski]

Shot a timelapse of 20 seconds per frames and then composited each frame that had a strike into a single image.

Wick'd awesome!