🇫🇷 French storm chasers

End of thunderstorm discharge above the Palais des Papes and the Pont d’Avignon

A gorgeous storm arrived on our position, on the Landes coast after a very hot day, and accompanied by a rather powerful outflow

A lightning bolt from the blue behind an elevated thunderstorm in southwestern France

A severe storm developed over the Mediterranean coast, next to the Camargue region. An impressive mesocyclone with lots of CG lightning approached my position.

The Roanne storm cell approached my position. Some cows made a graceful pose for the picture.

Anvils of cold air mass thunderstorms at setting sun

After I watched another supercell during that evening, a new storm arrived with a trajectory about ten kilometers further north. So I took the direction of Digoin.

On the Mont Bouquet I watched the evacuation of a strong and isolated storm.

A storm system in the south of France drains off to the Riviera. From the Calanques the sky becomes clear, with the illuminated cumulonimbus far away.

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

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

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

Downburst and double lightning strike near Savona during a night storm.

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.

Back to the highlight of the 2020 storm season

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

Double CG lightning strikes a few hundred meters away, very close to the small island of Bergeggi in Liguria.

Six lightning strikes, four of them are in clear sky. I love mediterranean storms: always impressive and photogenic storms

CG lightning behind a powerful storm in Berre-l’Etang, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Impressive spectacle with with extranuclear lightning off Sainte Maxime.

Epic thunderstorm in the south of Vercors, France

Another shot from amazing afternoon supercell storm near Blaye

During a stormy evening near the Massif Central, with numerous supercells and large hail, an impressive wall cloud approached my position. This storm generated large hail up to 7 centimetres.

Stunning lightning strike approximately 1 km away during an overnight storm in Grau d’Agde, Hérault.