🇩🇪 German storm chasers

Awesome lightning strikes over the Chiemsee.

A strong thunderstorm over Altötting, Bavaria.

It was very impressive. An unstable air mass with excellent shear and sufficient moisture was able to form this supercell.

As the supercell moved southward along the coast, multiple CGs brightened up the sky on the backside of this storm.

After a calm night storms were firing up close to the coast of Tuscany.

Shortly after a powerful supercell hit the city of Civitavecchia, an impressive lightning show began.

In the afternoon the very moist air mass at the coast of Lazio exploded and an isolated supercell formed near Orbetello.

Very low wall cloud of a supercell north of Port of Civitavecchia, also known as Port of Rome.

Powerful supercell over the Port of Rome, Lazio, Italy.

The photo was taken just a few moments after a powerful supercell began to rapidly intensify.

This was the first storm during a high-shear setup with multiple supercells in Northern Italy.

Downbursts are strong downdrafts that are often associated with intense heavy rain and hail. As soon as the downdraft reaches the ground, it spreads sideways, and the wind can reach hurricane force.

Crazy lightning show in the Friuli Plains near Lignano, North Italy

Nothing happened for a long time that day over rural Nebraska. Just some weak thunderstorms.

In an environment with very good shear conditions some very photogenic LP supercells developed over Thuringia and Saxony, and we were able to intercept one of them at Sangerhausen in the southern Harz region.

Powerful cell south of Munich with nice structure, which was producing some great CGs and crawlers at this time.

Mesocyclone structure on an HP supercell west of Bad Tölz, as it was moving east close to the mountains. At this point the supercell reached its peak intensity with lots of close lightning strikes

Such an amazing experience after waiting for more than two hours in the Bavarian landscape. This storm managed to form these insane structures in only 15 minutes.

After becoming outflow-dominant, the HP supercell quickly changed into a severe line of storms, giving us still some good structure.

Ahead of a cluster of storms a powerful supercell developed in the Oberammergau area in the early afternoon.

The Bavarian edge of the Alps did its magic again.

A beautiful wall cloud came over the mountains of the Bavarian Alps with frequent lightning all around it.

An intense hail core rushed to my position near Rosenheim together with some close-up lightning strikes.

Shelf cloud over North Germany at the coast of the Baltic Sea near the lighthouse.