Awesome Weather

We’re not quite sure of the science behind lightning that fires upward to the sky, but we can tell you we’ve never seen it before this video, captured several years ago by Tom A. Warner over Rapid City, South Dakota.

Nick Kosir isn’t just a weatherman, he’s a weather don. Watch him explain what he does to the tune of Make it Rain. He really needs to work on his swagger though. Right now he’s more Shy Ronnie than Weezy.

North Dakota’s Valley News Live invites kids to help report the weather. They were pleasantly surprised by William Hallman, who seems to have done his homework. Now he just needs to stop squinting.

Bystanders watch vehicles drive through the foamy floodwaters in Queensland, Australia when a car seemingly materializes out of nowhere. We’d like to see David Copperfield do that. (Thanks Dion!)

Berndnaut Smilde creates miniature clouds indoors by regulating the room’s temperature, humidity and lighting then using a fog machine. Images by Onur Dag and Cassander Eeftinck Schattenkerk.

Casey Neistat shot this eye-opening video of the devastation by riding bikes around NYC right in the midst of last week’s monster storm. He had to edit it at a Starbucks due to the power outage.

No matter what your opinion of the megafest is, you have to hand it to the Lollapalooza organizers for getting the capacity crowd out of the path of this dangerous storm and safely back to raging.

Digging out from a snowstorm is rarely fun, but we’d be pretty stoked if snow shoveling were as exciting as it looks in this game. We always wanted to kill some snow zombies with our shovels.

Combining awe-inspiring and humbling footage of massive waves with the dubstep remix of Clint Mansell’s dramatic Lux Aeterna, you’ll want to dim the lights and hit full screen mode for this one.

Is the craziness at 1:05 CG magic from Youtuber denisfarmer or nature truly gone wild? Beats us. Maybe those old maps with personifications of wind were more fact than fiction. (Thanks, Martin!)

A nasty set of thunderstorms in Fort Worth, Texas, set off a chain-reaction of exploding powerline transformers across the city in this amazing video captured 5 miles away and 34 floors up.

Watch this haunting footage shot from inside a moving vehicle as the recent tsunami hit Japan. Thankfully, the driver managed to escape without injury. Rainbows aren’t always a good omen.

Not, it’s not a collaboration between two indie bands. But it is a wonderful combination, a lazy dust devil gently uncovering a strawberry field, turning the sheets into an impromptu sculpture.

(Language NSFW) With our HQ in Chicago, we know a thing or two about the great Blizzpocalypse of 2011, and one thing we did not do was dare to step outside in the middle of the storm like these fools.

We know the snow has been awful this season. Heck, we’ve got to dig out from 2+ feet outside our doors right now. But no matter how much snow has fallen, we have no idea how it made this happen.

(NSFW: Language) We’re not sure if these guys intentionally drove their car into an ominous-looking storm, but the entire car takes serious damage when the hailstones start to hit.

This intrepid (or insane) bus driver in Nicaragua has got a serious pair of huevos on him – watch as he decides to navigate the raging flood waters on the road instead of waiting for them to recede.

Go to work, go to school, stop complaining and praise the Lord: this is only one highlight from the entertaining (albeit expired) weather report Megan McGlover of Atlanta put together. (Thanks Tim!)

Get swept away in the adrenaline-charged Tornado Alley, which documents Storm Chasers host Sean Casey’s thrilling quest to experience a tornado’s destructive power at point blank range.

When Belmar, New Jersey got slammed with over 2 feet of snow this weekend, Michael Black had the forethought to let his time-lapse camera capture the snowfall. Here’s 32 inches in 38 seconds.

While filming elephants in Mali, National Geographic cameraman Bob Poole and his companions were caught in a massive four hour dust storm. It looked like they were just outside the gates of hell.

What’s worse than being caught in a tornado? Being caught in a flaming one. Gusts of dry wind combined with wildfires in Aracatuba, Brazil to form a dancing “whirlwind of flames” several feet tall.

If you ever thought about sitting in your vehicle in the middle of a tornado warning, you might want to think again after you watch this video, captured by an amateur videographer in Russia.