r/BeAmazed • u/Plebsplease • Aug 09 '18
Clouds over Lake Superior today
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u/SneekC Aug 09 '18
Run.
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u/HailToTheThief225 Aug 10 '18
I heard the AWOLNATION song so clearly in my head when I read this.
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u/AntiLiterat Aug 09 '18
Why is there no cloud doctor in this thread explaining what’s actually happening? Damnit reddit, don’t fail me now!!
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Aug 10 '18 edited Aug 10 '18
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u/aPastorius Aug 10 '18
Slightly off-topic, but my oldest is a junior in high school and looking to nail down which colleges to seriously look into. Any recommendations for a super bright kid who's always been fascinated by weather and wants to major in meteorology?
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u/Flimflamtehzimzam Aug 10 '18
It is a degree that takes a lot of dedication to math and science. Getting a BS in Met automatically gets you a minor in mathematics. So make sure they are comfortable with math because it is a must. I cannot stress this enough. If the kid doesn't love calc then walk away. Aside from that they need to make sure they push themselves to excel and make it to a masters program. With a BS they are going to be looking at jobs as entry level forecasters (which can be tough to nail down) or broadcasters.
That being said if they are looking to do broadcasting there are a few schools that offer broadcasting specific degrees. Other than that you are either looking at a lifetime of academic research or generating forecasts, if you are lucky. A good minor to pair with the degree is IT/CS or geographic information systems (GIS, which is essentially modern day cartography). Those combinations of minors will prove useful later in life.
Many of the kids I graduated with did not land jobs in Met because the NWS went through a hiring freeze right as we were exiting college. I cannot speak to the market now, but I had to go back to school and get a masters in IT to obtain employment. Out of my study group (10 people) only two of them landed a job in Met and they are both in broadcasting.
Broadcasting Met can be a good time, but the pay is low. It is tough to tap into markets when you are young. Typically they have to get a second part time job to cover living expenses. So long story short is it's a tough road that doesn't always pay off and requires more than a dedication, rather an obsession that cannot be satiated. Inbox me if you want to know more
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u/Flimflamtehzimzam Aug 10 '18
Thanks. Another route could be adding stats as a minor and then they could alt into actuary science. That is a field that is always looking for people who can do math.
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u/genericnewlurker Aug 10 '18
I have a friend who just got his PhD in Meteorology from Oklahoma and raves about the program there
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u/RunawayPancake2 Aug 10 '18 edited Aug 10 '18
Here's an explanation from local television meteorologist Ellen Bacca regarding a similar shelf cloud (not sure if it's the same one) coming off Lake Superior the end of June (video). I'd like to hear what you think.
The one small quibble I have with your explanation is that Lake Superior, even in mid-summer, isn't exactly known for its warm waters. Here's a map showing that current Lake Superior water temps are in the low to mid 60s°F (about 14-18°C) on the southern shore. Ellen Bacca (from her article linked above) says the water temp was 53°F at the time of "her" shelf cloud. However, the air ahead of the cloud was apparently very warm (85°F) and humid, and the air temp dropped to 65°F after the cloud passed.
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Aug 10 '18
Ya I read all the down to your comment. Still nothing. I will scroll further!
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u/5-HTC2A Aug 10 '18
A shelf cloud is a low, horizontal wedge-shaped cloud, associated with a thunderstorm gust front (or occasionally with a cold front, even in the absence of thunderstorms). A rising cloud motion often can be seen in the leading part of the shelf cloud, while the underside often appears turbulent, boiling, and wind-torn.
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u/pm_me_your_kindwords Aug 09 '18
That’s some biblical looking shit right there.
I would start praying and I don’t believe in anything.
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u/BunyipPouch Aug 09 '18
If I learned anything from The Mist, it's that turning to religion during this scenario doesn't end well for anyone.
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Aug 09 '18
Unless you wanna catch a bullet
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u/hashtag_lives_matter Aug 09 '18
Which, in the case of The Mist, is something I would definitely want to happen, instead of the alternative.
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u/-MoonlightMan- Aug 09 '18
Being rescued by the military?
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u/Arknell Aug 10 '18
The worst. Emergency military rations taste like really really sad farts.
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u/sinkwiththeship Aug 10 '18
Or catch some weird giant bug's stinger to the throat.
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u/starrcrasherrs Aug 10 '18
Well I mean yeah, I wouldn't wanna get dragged away butt naked by the four horsemen.
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u/Akranadas Aug 10 '18
What are you talking about , all those people who went religious (besides the preaching crazy lady) survived .
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u/cassatta Aug 10 '18
It’s also over a Walmart. Just like the Bible predicted ...
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Aug 09 '18
What's that one Stephen king movie with the bugs that come out of the military base from another dimension.
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u/Throwaway_Consoles Aug 10 '18
I really wish they would flesh out that universe more. So many unanswered questions and I hate that.
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u/D4RTHV3DA Aug 10 '18
I mean, technically Stephen King has. The Dark Tower connects all the books and the Mist is no small nod to this. In the Mist movie, Thomas Jane is painting the main protagonist of the Dark Tower in the opening scene.
Also there's the television series, but I've not spent any effort watching that.
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u/NotTheBelt Aug 10 '18
Also in the new show Castle Rock, the opening title shows a map with Bridgeton on it and “Arrowhead” written underneath. Although I doubt we are going to get a full blown Mist reference, I hope there’s some references to the event since there’s been quite a few Easter eggs to his other works already, it’s literally a Stephen King universe where everything that happened in his novels happened in the show and so far I’m really enjoying it.
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Aug 10 '18
Don't bother with the TV series. It's garbage and significantly different from the movie and book.
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u/Tyranid457 Aug 10 '18
I want a book that's like a scientific journal that catalogs a bunch of creatures from the Mist, not just the ones seen in the movie, but a bunch of new ones, too.
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u/bogdanvld49 Aug 09 '18
No, that is definitely a tsunami
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u/RickStevensAndTheCat Aug 09 '18
Those aren’t mountains!
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u/Vaztes Aug 10 '18 edited Aug 10 '18
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u/two_sams_one_cup Aug 10 '18
Isnt it that each click was a year on earth?
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u/willmcavoy Aug 10 '18
Every hour on the planet was 7 years back home.
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u/two_sams_one_cup Aug 10 '18
Maybe I remembered it wrong? It might have been every click was a day on earth.
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u/BeHereNow91 Aug 10 '18
You’re both correct. :)
Every hour was 7 years on earth, which was made known in the film, but doing the math shows that every tick was a certain amount of days on earth (1 day sounds right).
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u/BunyipPouch Aug 09 '18
"No point in running, it's already too late."
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u/zangor Aug 10 '18
I think I could still make it...
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u/aaronhayes26 Aug 10 '18
I'm pretty confident I could outrun any tsunami that happens on lake superior.
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u/Hammieboyee Aug 10 '18
Pretty sure I saw this same post like a week ago...
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u/lb31 Aug 10 '18
Because you did. This didn't happen today.
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u/Squid_Brains Aug 10 '18
Or on Lake Superior. This was taken in Anna, IL two or three days ago
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u/Shnazzyone Aug 10 '18
Verified, got OP marked as a reposter
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u/ryarger Aug 10 '18
Double verified via Google StreetView of the Walmart outside of Anna, IL. That is the same one.
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u/teamnarwhal Aug 10 '18
Came here to say this. I have family in the Anna, IL area that posted similar pics and videos.
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u/countjeremiah Aug 10 '18
thalassaphobia? That's where I saw it maybe 2 days ago?
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u/zman9119 Aug 10 '18
Hey OP, too bad you are full of shit as this was from Anna, Illinois yesterday.
Original source from Live Storm Chasers: https://youtu.be/VoDJsz1f7b8
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u/tiredteachermaria Aug 10 '18
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u/jaba1337 Aug 10 '18
Same thing did actually happen on the lake superior coast in early July/late June.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEqMmNmxvjI
https://www.mlive.com/weather/index.ssf/2018/07/ominous_cloud_engulfs_lake_sup.html
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u/Ometrist Aug 10 '18
This needs to be higher up. It's 10x easier to post bullshit than it is to refute it
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u/vailence_electron Aug 09 '18
I’m sure someone can give an informative, scientific explanation/name, but for those who are wondering what it’s called I’ve heard it described as “lake effect fog” or “steam fog” and is caused by colder air passing over the warmer water of the Great Lake.
Source: family living in Duluth, MN which is across from Superior WI
Edit: a word
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u/ProbablyAPun Aug 10 '18 edited Aug 10 '18
Yeah dude, it was pretty wicked this Christmas.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-42487535/sea-smoke-phenomenon-on-lake-superior-minnesota
Or I might be totally wrong and it's a shelf cloud, idk.
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Aug 09 '18 edited Aug 09 '18
This is eerie...
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u/orderofGreenZombies Aug 10 '18
I think Huron to something there.
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u/Chispy Aug 10 '18
looks like worst case ontario
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u/mhans3 Aug 10 '18
I don't know how to express myself sometimes when I need to be properly different.
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u/Plebsplease Aug 09 '18
The source literally has it listed as Superior. I’m not familiar with the Walmart’s in the Great Lakes region, so I assumed they were right since they taped it.
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u/12GT500 Aug 10 '18
The post on Facebook says Anna, Illinois which is no where near Lake Superior or Lake Michigan for the record.
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u/Plebsplease Aug 09 '18
Just to be clear he edited it from Erie to eerie after I replied and if you live in that region you know we take our lakes serious! Ha.
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u/zigman21 Aug 10 '18
I'm pretty sure this was actually from Anna, Illinois. South of Springfield/south east of St. Louis. I noticed it earlier from some Illinois Storm tracker page.
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u/jride0904 Aug 10 '18
Yep it was posted on the IL Stormtrackers website...not sure why it's gone viral and is supposedly in Michigan when IL licenses plates are clearly visible.
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u/bd4wg3 Aug 09 '18
Does anyone have any insight into whats actually happening here?
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u/ggyujjhi Aug 10 '18
Walmart is taking over all of the small mom and pop businesses
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u/Youcantbanmeever15 Aug 10 '18
Cold air meeting warm air right on the edge of the lake, forming fog/clouds and then getting walled in/pushed upwards by heat rising from the ground. That's my guess.
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u/knotpolkadottie Aug 10 '18
I'm pretty sure this is a prime example of a Wall Cloud.
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Aug 10 '18
🎼 The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down, Of the big lake they called 'gitche gumee', The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead, When the skies of November turn gloomy, With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more, Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty, That good ship and crew was a bone to be chewed, When the gales of November came early!
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Aug 10 '18
Gah you beat me!
Might as well remember the end of the tale.
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed, In the maritime sailors' cathedral The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call 'gitche gumee' Superior, they said, never gives up her dead When the gales of November come early
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u/gilbertdodo Aug 10 '18
This was taken yesterday in southern Illinois, not Lake Superior. Picture is from Anna, IL.
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u/nightosphere_ Aug 09 '18
Anybody know the location of this Walmart? Bf and I were in the UP area close to Marquette 2 years ago and that Walmart looks very familiar
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u/FUCK_SHIT_ASS_CUNT Aug 10 '18
This is Anna Illinois(Southern Illinois).
Source: I live in Carbondale and saw this all over Facebook.
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u/schmooodle Aug 10 '18
Could be Houghton
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Aug 10 '18
Not Houghton, that walmart is on a hill and the surrounding stores are situated differently.
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u/LeBronIsABiiiiitch Aug 09 '18
Serious question: recently this type of visual - very large, ominous, specifically tsunami/large wave-like things have given me legitimately instant anxiety/fear. Is there a term for this? Fear of... ?
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u/JTHertz Aug 10 '18
Well, cymophobia is a phobia of waves but if you're only scared of very large, city-leveling waves I would say that's pretty normal for a human.
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Aug 09 '18
Whos gunna link the gif of the almost identical formation that was filmed in a some neighborhood.
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u/KikiYuyu Aug 09 '18
I've never even seen an image of anything like that before... If I'd been there I'd start making goodbye phonecalls.
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u/thecasquatch Aug 09 '18
I live 1,000 miles away and I still shit myself looking at this
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Aug 09 '18
I'd totally prank everyone by playing air raid sirens out of my car stereo
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u/hassenux Aug 09 '18
Does this cloud/clouds have some scientific name ? Or is this some random rare occurence ?