Cameras capture weather gone wild

I can hear the Hollywood voice trailer now:

“In a world of wild weather, watchful electronic eyes capture the savage beauty of extreme weather.”

OK, so I won’t be writing for Hollywood anytime soon. But I thought it might be worth occasionally checking in on some of the planet’s best accidental weather images.

Surveillance and security cameras designed for other purposes often capture viral weather images. Here are a few good images I’ve seen recently.

Manhattan snow squall

This time-lapse video from the top of One World Trade Center captures what is described as an impressive snow squall blowing across the Hudson River into Manhattan.

Note the rapid drop invisibility as the squall hits Manhattan.

Lake Erie lake-effect squall

Speaking of squalls, I couldn’t ignore this impressive and scary shot from Buffalo, N.Y. That’s a lake-effect snow squall moving across Lake Erie. It’s a reply to the original Manhattan tweet.

Haboobs

No, it’s not a typo. Haboobs are dust storms driven by gust fronts from strong and severe thunderstorms. This one from Lubbock, Texas, last June was impressive.

Haboobs occur in desert areas with loose soils. Gusts front often over 70 mph can kick up loose soils thousands of feet above ground level.

Here’s one along Interstate 8 in Arizona.

Here’s an incredible image of a haboob swallowing downtown Phoenix, Ariz.

Finally this home doorbell video of a tornado along the North Carolina coast during Hurricane Dorian.

Stay tuned, we’ll do these again. If you have any great weather images ping me @MPRWeather