HOLY F...... OMFG IT'S APPROACHING

Cool vid, if you guys like this stuff will make some this summer here. We have at least 4 storms similar to this during the summer. I love them, it gets completely dark in 10 minutes and everything is over in 20-30 minutes, I love when hits while I am driving, you can get the feeling of doom.

That was mega

No, no, no. It was ULTRA!!!

nice

I bet there was cool lighting display

What better way to make you feel alive than a good storm blowing over you?

The power of nature baby! Bring it on....

Sonisphere Finland Hit By Storm, But The Show Must Go On
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We all survived Sonisphere Finland. An amazing experience for all of us who were there -- bands, crews, and fans alike.

At around 3:45 PM, during the set change on the main stage after Slayer and before Alice, with Alice's crew setting up the gear, and Maiden's crew beginning to set up THEIR gear behind Alice, a tornado-like "weather event" hit the festival site, with the two stages right in the bullseye.

At the second stage, Iggy & The Stooges were about to go on, and Motley's crew were setting up their gear to follow the Stooges.

Both stages got hit hard, with the second stage rendered useless when part of the ground support (which holds up the lighting, sound and roof) collapsed. On the main stage, the huge Sonisphere backdrop was ripped off the back of the stage, and crashed down onto Alice's equipment truck.

Thankfully, nobody on either stage was seriously injured, though there were a lot of cuts, scrapes, abrasions, headaches, and frayed nerves.

What had been a warm sunny but muggy day turned ugly within minutes, as the storm rolled in with high winds, dark clouds, and violently intense rain and, suddenly, hail, as the wind swirled, the trees swayed, and it became dark as night.

Everyone was yelling to get off the stages NOW, forget trying to save the gear, run for safety.

Within minutes, the skies cleared and everyone raced back onto the stages to make sure everyone was OK, and to begin checking gear. Luckily, no band members or crew were seriously hurt, some crew suffering scrapes, cuts, bruises, abrasions and a lot of frayed nerves.

Unfortunately as many as forty of the fans at the festival were injured during the storm, a few of them seriously, and everyone is hoping that they recover.

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because they have nothing more interesting on the forum.
The bright users have stop posting interesting stuff.

Looks like Hilo.

Well i wouldn't be standing around i would be GTFO there fast.

I saw something similar - this year in Montreal.

Epic storms lately. I blame Russia and it's freaky heatwave.

Thor is approaching and he's furious
The gods of north has awakened

sickness

Holy F@#$ This shit Was Pinned!

nope1!!!

yes there was...

you can at least acknowledge GLP, Wii.....

And don't cross us, we may bite. btw we are all ockers, it means an Australian. We had a front like that hit Ocean Reef{Perth suburb) in March, hailstones the size of oranges.

Culture... G'day

It's A Derecho.

I remember last year one rolled through Southern Illinois and did a crap load of damage to my home town. The town was completely trashed within 15 minutes of the wind picking up to nearly 110 mph, and then it was all over. We thought it was a tornado and we all were hunkered down in the basement of the church down the street.

The city of Carbondale about 15 minutes west of here was so bad that they were out of power for a long time and there was some 3 million dollars worth of damage to the entire city of like 30,000 people.

Everybody called it the inland hurricane because it looked like a hurricane on radar.







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That looked like a mean storm! Ignore some of these posts OP good to hear from someone in Finland (Loving the global community here) xx

how common or uncommon are these kind of storm for Finland?

Their normal for the entire Northern Hemisphere normally in June and July. They feed off hot weather.

That was impressively fast moving, I've watched hurricane bands move in slower.

Once in a Decade

A storm like that happened here today in Florida. The sky turned red like I’ve never seen in my life. The clouds where moving really fast and low as though they where rising up from a fire. I pulled over because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, and then about ten other vehicles pulled over behind and in front of me on different sides of the road.

My four-year-old son said, “ Take a picture mommy.” But I didn’t have my phone. Unbelievable.
It looked like a giant meteor had hit the earth somewhere in front of us, just glowing and smoking. The weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.
I got home in time for the lightning and thunder, both where so powerful.
Lightning seemed to be right on top of us, very bright. And the thunder blew my curtains in with the percussion.
The most unusual thing I’ve ever experienced.

That is such a cool storm! Thanks for posting it - glad I watched.

It started in Latvia, then came over us like a freight train at max speed and hit Finland next. Never seen anything like it.

Some smaller places are totally ruined, here in Estonia and in Latvia as well. Roofs flew away from entire towns, all the windows busted and trees down. It's pretty insane even for an August storm.

Storms are like disco dance. I run allways outside with iron and all kind metal things, when there is storm going on. Its cool when lightning hits to you, im sure everybody does same thing as i, do you???