Awesome Weather

A fascinating simulation created by a team of scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. The animation approximates the movements of smoke, sea salt, and dust as they traveled around the globe due to storms and wind currents in 2017. Original video here.

Lots of us stayed outside to watch the big solar eclipse this week, but this isn’t the view any of us saw. Instead of looking up at the skies, the University of Wisconsin Madison time-lapsed weather satellite imagery to track the shadow of the moon as it crossed the US.

We always thought the idea behind revolving doors was to keep the bad weather out of buildings, but in this video captured during a storm in Istanbul, Turkey, it seems the wind and rain got the better of the spinning door, and left quite a mess. Original video here.

Fortunately, it’s starting to gradually warm up in most of the Northern Hemisphere, but when it is cold out, you just want to get somewhere warm as quickly as possible. Minute Physics ponders whether or not it’s better to proceed slowly when you’re freezing your butt off.

We won’t let the irritating audio take away from Mitchell F. Chan’s Something Something National Conversation (In 2 Characters or Less), which features one of the most satisfying elements we’ve seen in an art installation – two puffy white clouds colliding endlessly in mid-air.

TopFelya captured this incredible footage at a runway at London’s Gatwick Airport, as a series of jumbo jets each manages to successfully land or take off in a dense fog that seems to swallow up the planes. The mist coming off the wings of the planes is especially eerie.

SciShow offers up a brief, yet informative look at nature’s electric fury. Learn what conditions make lightning occur, and the differences between some of the various types of lightning that we experience here on our planet, some of which most of us have never seen.

Blue Dog Films used a Canon 5d Mk3 to capture this incredibly ominous and awe-inspiring time-lapse footage of a storm brewing over Maroochydore, Australia, churning away like something from the ark opening scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Casey Neistat and Jesse Wellens of BGvsGF counted on the recent snowstorm to dump tons of powder on New York City so they could pull off this film. The whole thing is surreal. The behind-the-scenes is equally entertaining.

(Flashing lights) Photographer Nicolaus Wegner graciously shares his latest compilation of time-lapse videos of storms in the US. It has everything: massive clouds, rainbows, lightning and much more. The song is Everything by Everyone Moves Away.

A small box that mimics weather conditions. Tempescope can visualize cloudy, rainy and sunny weather as well as lightning storms using water, air and LEDs. It can mimic local or foreign weather, but you can also manually set it to one of the four conditions.

Photographer Jeff Boyce shot over 70,000 images to create this impressive time-lapse video of storms, stars and skies. No fancy hyperlapse, no quick cuts or zooms. Just a sharp and steady eye watching nature do its thing.

Meteorologist Cory McCloskey of FOX 10 Phoenix does a brilliant job keeping his composure and rolling with the punches when his weather forecast map glitches out and indicates the worst heat wave this side of Mercury.

So it’s time to dig out from the latest snownami. You could shovel by hand, or you could send off to Japan for Yuki-Taro, a robot that not only can plow snow, but that turns the white stuff into compact bricks of ice to keep things tidy.

With the crazy amount the U.S. East coast this week, James Grimaldi decided to send his drone out for a flight to capture the early winter wonderland from a unique perspective over his neighborhood in West Seneca, NY. Shot in 4K.

This lucky person was trying to leave their house to escape a tornado, but instead ended up witnessing a rare live performance of the Great Magician, Mr. Garage. Watch as it performs its trademark vanishing trick.

Vacationers on a beach in Novosibirsk, Siberia were recently taken by surprise when the skies turned dark and a major wind and hailstorm erupted, creating a scene that looks like its straight out of the apocalypse.

Designed initially for teaching students about how tornadoes form, this tabletop weather simulation device would look way cooler sitting on your desk than one of those clacky Newton’s Cradle things.

Stev Golden works on a boat. During a recent voyage off the Southern coast of Ireland, their boat encountered massive 52+ foot waves, and ~100mph winds. Don’t blame us if his video makes you sea sick.

Another stunning time-lapse clip painstakingly shot by photographer Randy Halverson, Huelux explores the skies over South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah. We had no idea you could see such spectacular aurora in this part of the world.

There’s something just so mesmerizing about chunks of ice and snow falling off of roofs. In this clip captured at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine, Texas, it seems not only to go on forever, but the chunks all look like roof tiles.

George Loegering was out hunting when he captured video of thousands of chunks of ice spinning in a perfect circle in North Dakota’s Sheyenne River. Scientists say it was likely caused when cold air met an eddy in the river.

While in upper Michigan, Jason Asselin managed to capture a rare weather phenomenon, as the sky turned yellow, then a beautiful orange, casting its light through bubbly, ethereal clouds called Mammatus. Yes, this was shot on Earth.