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Chile’s Dirty, Beautiful Thunderstorm.

Posted by: Rachel Hulin Posted date: May 8, 2008 | 13 Comments

Further to our theme today, come these pictures of the “dirty thunderstorm” created by Chile’s erupting Chaitén volcano, which started spewing lava, ash, and lightning (!) on May 3rd, after behaving itself for 9,000 years. Who angered the beast?!

From the full story in National Geographic:

“The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash,
and ice particles in the plume collide to produce static charges–just
as ice particles collide to create charge in regular thunderstorms.”

The pictures, by Carlos Gutierrez of UPI/Landov, are pretty incredible. Hopefully people are staying as safe as possible. Today’s color is purple.

I love the very slight variation on the theme. They remind me of Thomas Cole and David Caspar Friedrich.

I want them on my wall, big.

Thanks, Ken.

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13 Comments

CT 5-8-2008

Wow! These images are amazing and totally surreal. I also loved the astronomy posting today. Thanks for showing us. I dig purple/NOVA day.

Deniss 5-9-2008

Just wow. Feel the wrath of the Earth! Wonderful images.

Kendal Larson 5-9-2008

Thanks for the shout out Rachel. Really, really amazing stuff, eh? And yeah – I’d like at least one on my wall too. Kendal

Graham 5-9-2008

These photos are amazing. Thanks for sharing. Graham

ImageGuy.com 5-9-2008

Friday Five – Canon Cracks, Being Rich, Nikon Lens, Weddings, and Dirty Lightning

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saragold 5-9-2008

These are incredible. I love all the weather and space related pictures this week! Something cosmic in the air?

Grid 5-13-2008

WOW seriously does anyone have these in wallpaper size OMG!!! and Yes a big one for the wall would rock to!!!

Chris 3-14-2009

http://galacticcentral.org/imagebucket/volcano.jpg I found that on my travels on the internet, a higher res version of probably the best picture there.

Giles Dawe 6-7-2009

Lovely atmospheric images, I think I could place these on my computer as a desktop wallpaper.

M 8-25-2009

“I want them on my wall, big.” http://homokaasu.org/rasterbator/

Dirty Books 9-16-2009

Dirty Books

Directed by Wesley Emerson Jr, Wesley Emerson. Cheap Sh

laptop622 11-11-2009

Thanks for the shout out Rachel. Really, really amazing stuff, eh? http://www.laptopbatteryclub.com/

Mike 4-20-2010

If you look closely at them they seem as if they all have faces.

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