Storm chaser Mike Olbinski documents his obsessive pursuit of tornados and supercell storms in this video.
He spent more than 3 months of travelling and shooting, driving more than 45,000 kilometres across 10 states of the USA and shooting more than 90,000 frames of stunning high-definition timelapse photography.
The results are incredible: “I saw the most incredible mammatus displays, the best nighttime lightning and structure I’ve ever seen, a tornado birth caught on time-lapse and a display of undulatus asperatus that blew my mind. Wall clouds, massive cores, supercell structures, shelf clouds…it ended up being an amazing season,” Olbinski writes.
Originally published by Cosmos as Pursuing the storm
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