Rain Bomb: Rare 'Wet Microburst’ Caught on Camera in Stunning Timelapse

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Rain Bomb: Rare ‘Wet Microburst’ Caught on Camera in Stunning Timelapse
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A STORM chaser captures a huge burst of wind and rain which explodes in the sky and crashes to the ground. Shot on August 8, this dramatic timelapse was shot by photographer Bryan Snider, 29, in Tucson, Arizona. The incredibly detailed footage shows a weather event known as a wet microburst which occurs when a cooled column of air sinks rapidly through the middle of a thunder storm. The unique storm phenomena affects an area of no more than two and a half miles and can generate winds of over 150 mph. New Mexico-born Bryan lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona, as a full time videographer.

Videographer / Director: Bryan Snider, LSM
Producer: Mark Hodge, Chloe Browne
Editor: Joshua Douglas

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  1. I live in Tucson and I’ve been in two of those, first one kind of started off like a tornado, the clouds were green and spinning above me so I went inside and seconds later it landed, it sounded like a freight train driving by my house, there was so much rain when I looked outside after it was finished there was around a foot of water in my backyard, there was a bunch of tree and roof damage and a lot of hail. The second one took place the same year as the one in the video and once again there was a lot of damage, the winds were so bad it flipped an F16 over in the base. Those storms are intense.

  2. Wet/dry microbursts do not "often" generate winds up to 150 MPH – more like the straight-line winds of 70, 80, or 90 MPH. Much stronger microbursts can reach 100 MPH or higher, but I would never say that they "often" are 150 MPH. In fact, those speeds would be exceptionally rare.

  3. Rain bomb is another madeup term for a billions year old phenomenon.

    The boy crying wolf climate commie rat fink alarmists are fading fast in the face of facts.

  4. I'm pretty sure if you ask the people in Arizona they would say this happens pretty regularly and it's no big deal. But yeah I put a British accent on it and now it's climate change.?☺???

  5. It happened on lake major in italy some time ago, we were in the car luckily, suddenly literally a waterfall from sky hits us, and we could see anything, a poor guy fell off his bike and almost died by a car

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