hurricane Isabel

[Angela]

for Sickcert

[IslandgurlPatty]

That's an awesome photograph. !!

[Angela]

I wish I had a larger size

[Angela]

thanks

[ItsMe]

Not hurricane Isabel... see explanation below...

"Origins: Meteorologists (including Dr. Steve Lyons, the Weather Channel's hurricane expert) agree that the photos displayed above are not pictures of any hurricane at all, much less Hurricane Isabel, which struck the eastern United States in September 2003 — they depict shelf clouds or wall clouds typically associated with severe thunderstorms and tornadoes rather than hurricanes, and the water in the first picture appears too smooth for the area of an approaching hurricane. (Even if these images did depict the approach of a hurricane, they're too old to be photographs of Hurricane Isabel — these same pictures were circulating as photographs of Hurricane Claudette back in July 2003 and of Cyclone Indigo in April 2003.)

Some believe the photographs to have been taken in the midwestern U.S. or Great Lakes region, although at least one source identifies the first image as being a picture of Tropical Cyclone Graham, which hit northwest Australia in February 2003."

http://www.snopes.com/photos/isabel.asp

[SickCert]

Thanks for getting that for me Angela - a handy background for after the silly season. I was shown similar picture when i sat my seamans exams in 94/95. Your looking at really heavy rain and maybe golf ball hail. From the bad memory again the China or Japan direction maybe? Another clue that its not a hurricane is the ships direction.

Been a while keep the storm piccys coming i LOVE them!

[the_bitch]

I love that picture, looks really cool, i saved it

[Orange Door Hinge]

ItsMe, I agree. When I saw it, I thought to myself, this thing couldnt be more then a few miles wide based on the curviture of the cloud formation. A Hurricane is hundreds if not over a thousand miles wide. All you would see is black and green and grey as far as the eye could see. The earths curviture would block most of the hurricane approaching even if it was viewable.

But it's an interesting picture. I figured a large f5 water spout.