Europe

Positive lightning jumps from the top of the explosive updraft over the Trieste gulf

Beautiful shelf cloud from the dominant outflow supercell we chased in Croatia

Very nice structure during the thunderstorm in Bavaria.

Isolated cell behind the island of Brijuni on western coast of Istria

Close-up view of a lightning channel. Experts do not agree whether it’s ribbon lightning or not.

Storms from a free atmosphere have developed in the south of France. The electrical activity was mainly in the form of intra-cloud lightning.

Nice branched CG lightning behind the island Krk when storms were firing up in Kvarner bay, Croatia

After a hot day, numerous thunderstorms formed between the Alps and Munich.

Stunning shelf cloud over Provodovice, Czechia

An isolated thunderstorm has formed after a very hot and dry afternoon near the Cevennes mountains.

Shortly after a strong thunderstorm cell passed over our location near Fulda (Hessen, Germany), a second, weaker thunderstorm formed.

Amazing September night near Umag, when isolated storms were firing up with frequent lightnings for 6 hours non stop

Massive lightning bolt in Pula.

A supercell from the sea is coming to my position with numerous CG lightning strikes. A striated mesocyclone crossed a water surface in southern France.

Taken at Cerbaia in Tuscany, Italy on September 2, 2020

The beauty near Vicenza, a city in the Veneto region of northeast Italy

Beautiful mammatus clouds in Villanova, Modena.

Freight train passes under the awesome mesocyclone of this LP supercell

Another view of an impressive shelf cloud at the coast of the Baltic Sea

An incredible Kelvin-Helmholtz waves in South Bohemia.

Back to the highlight of the 2020 storm season

Supercell off the coast of Polignano a Mare in its most acute phase

These cloud bumps are called mammatus clouds. They look particularly impressive when illuminated by the setting sun.

The Camargue ponds pounded by branched thunderbolts, some very close, approx. 500-600 m away.