Helsinki thunderstorm approaching 8.8.2010

[RTSchofield]

Like that scene in Independence Day when the ships approach.



[DiabolusInMobile]

For a moment there was a huge eye in top right corner. Spooky.

[MrGhinni]

Koko ajan välkkyy ;D Olisin jo kuset housus tuol :)

[bren320]

the best video congratulation

[chocolatemonster07]

Must have been great to watch, i've seen storms similar to this when in Austria.

[BsAs8Ros8Coa]

After the blast of wind the day gets a little Green

[BsAs8Ros8Coa]

we have the same storm in buenos aires,they bring a looooot of wind, and rain...here is normal This type of storms in summer and spring

[jasminetigerlily1]

if you look at the clouds on either side at 1.07 it looks like 3 mouths

[Mrgettygirl]

It's the end of the world *o*

[iovnzu]

The same storm hit Estonia as well on the 8th of August...

here are some footages (they are not mine though)

/watch?v=HaLTVDQ4ukI

/watch?v=c21rUlx2jOQ

[GearsOfWarAnimations]

and so the thick skin of the clouds, speckled with the veins of lightning, swallowed Helsinki in one

[Helsinki112]

Nice vid :)

[pvtryan3419]

never seen any thing like this

[PhysStud2006]

Menacing!

[Electrodudeify]

wow



[LoquendoVideosXD]

twister????????? WTF!!!!!

[MrKananmuna]

very bad thunder

[TheHeppu]

I was on a plane when that one arrived... Thankfully the plane landed before it would be in the middle of that storm!

[Nitro78410]

i would of loved to be there and witness this



[MrVahinko]

This storm was truly one to remember. My bigsister was visiting me and suddenldy we were like: "Why the fuck did the sun just disapear?" Aah shit, it was insane(weatherwise).

[Makaronimano]

Olin ite 30 km päässä ja sielläki oli kunnon rähinä päällä.Näytti maailman lopulta ku tuli stadista päin.Keltasta,punasta ja mustan värisiä pilvii ja näytti et taivas olis tulessa.Tänä kesänä tulee varmaan ainaki yks samanlainen myrsky..

[TheRelaxingEnd]

hyvää shittii

[williamwilbur]

what was all that sand stuff from?

[RajatonOfc]

Tää on hyvä, et näit on kuvattu ni saa jälkikäteen kauhistella. Kiitos!

[cripplehawk]

That's not a thunder Storm it's Thor and he's pissed. Apparently Loki Stole his Mjöllnir (Thor's Hammer) and is hiding out somewhere in Helinski. Thor is just looking for him so he can kick his ass.

[KagamiLolita]

It looks like a huge mass of water... Tsunamic :Oooo

[sotamies99]

so this was maybe comed up lieto after turku...and it was comed up in lieto night have video about tht not in youtube...sry my english

[EmeraldSparkz]

this is ridiculously cool!! id shit my pants no doubt !

[pixelperu]

I y was very scary that afternoon.... the day turned like in night... and was very noisy.. I have just a 3 min video :(

[pixelperu]

I y was very scary that afternoon.... the day turned like in night... and was very noisy.. I have just a 3 min video :(

[pixelperu]

I y was very scary that afternoon.... the day turned like in night... and was very noisy.. I have just a 3 min video :(

[Armuotas]

Looks awesome, the ground is still sunlit and above is total mess !

[djnovax]

I love it! <3

[SIEBERTOJANEIRO]

We also had super cells in the Netherlands last year

They were on 10/11 July, 12 July and 14 July..

And let me tell you.. they were great.. we even had a small tornado in the north of The Netherlands..

We already expected, cause the temperature raised up to 36-38*C..

A temperature we didn't have in many years....

Now pray to god for a 38*c hot summer!!

[coolifegirl]

the power of nature is incredible and invincible

[MrGusten10]

Lokks like a derecho to me with all that dirt kickin up infront.Nice filming!Wow very powerful lightning too!

[MrGusten10]

Lokks like a derecho to me with all that dirt kickin up infront.Nice filming!

[Koaslice191]

Scary-fast...it looks positively EVIL.

[taantumus]

I remember this storm and how everything had this weird orange tint just before it got completely dark and the skies started to pour down.

[Marens777]

crazy, it was in estonia too, that same storm, i was in forest and that was scary

[waqarzaman]

HOW MUCH RAIN DID HELSINKI RECIEVED DURING THIS STORM ANY IDEA ??????

[zepurplefawx]

Now you know what goes around in the finnish parlament... THE ANGER

[observer0904]

What were those fast moving objects? Starting at 1:26 3 ufos entering from right screen. And then again at 2:08 from left screen. They look to be too fast moving for birds. Aytbody else caught this?

[SiiliKarhu]

@observer0904 lol they are seagulls

[TheSeve99]

the bolt come down in chuch in porvoo

[hailoaola1]

it`s scary :O

[UnclePutte]

So beautiful.

[SanRocheDx]

mmmmm thanx ..usa.. thanx HAARP  mmmm HAARP HAARP

[MegaGuineapigfan]

I was in that storm and we had to go to the basment to be safe!!!!! I know Freaky

[23thunderstorm]

holy... that's a beauty

[asmartbajan]

Notice how dark it gets dark just 5 minutes into the video! Great clip but It would have been better if the microphone was covered to protect it from wind noise. At first I thought the sound of the wind was thunder. If you had just listened to the lady and shut the door!

[dittofitto]

nice vid! (terkkui turust)

[megaprouduction1989]

DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY

[BlackOpsIntroduction]

Olette kusessa.

[Zachariazh]

that looked like a end of the world rly scary

[KILL3RPANA5]

SHIT THAT AINT SHIT COMPARED TO THE ONES IN AMERICA.

[AnnaAbreu1001]

mm...

[TheMetalification666]

And I got to this video by a slayer video? Wow

[tuputacola]

no mames !!!!!!!!

[Kan2209]

It's eating helsinki... And then it's going to eat me! OH MY GAAAAAAAWWWWDDDDD!!!!!

[jiclxibad]

hevens comig down !! ahhh

[southernsandman]

@kceovaisnt: Don't waste your time feeding the troll. You are probably arguing with a 16 yr old. I'm sure you DO have better things to do than enlighten a snotty teenager hiding behind a screen.

[mokla808]

Melkoista salamointia.

[locouk]

I bet those crane drivers have never evacuated so fast in their lives! Great video, thanks for posting.

[sdgsdgsdgsd3]

@locouk i think most cranes have weather radar in the cabs so in case a change in wind speed

[locouk]

@sdgsdgsdgsd3 Due to recent government cutbacks the operators are given a used parachute in case of emergency. Weather radars have all been sold to help cover the health service.

[smartymos]

Our plane was coming in to land at Helsinki when this happened. We had to pull up at the last second and divert to Tampere 150 miles north. Our hotel was on the left of this video. I was not amused:(

[orchimaru123]

why cant that happen here

[H4ruOnna4]

hoping that no one was hit by that furious thunder,thats really scary,first time to

see it in my entire life and in youtube.

[xixaxoxuu]

i was half expecting UFO's to come out just like the scene in Independence Day. Lols. :)

[orchimaru123]

holy crap i wonder how was it like to be in complete darkness



[StyrofoamCancer]

@orchimaru123 Yeah, wouldn't it be crazy if it was like that for half of every day?

[jysluggo]

Why are you speaking English in Finland? You also have no accent. Did you move to Finland from America?

[janism24]

day and night

[AndreESCT]

Nice Shelf, nice SVR-TSTM! 

[ukko83]

Its like big ass hand coming towards helsinki :D

Have to move there asap cause i love thunderstorms...

[olyansincs]

One word: ARCUS.

[k3phr3n]

the mouth of the monster

[Rainkkoat]

God damn hell; it's worth pointing out that Finland is one of the most environmental conscious countries of the world powered by green techs; if that happened there, what is left to the US or China in exchange? MANKIND IS ITSELF, MISUNDERSTOOD U.U

[muovishamaani]

Great video! Nice orbs/UFOs between left towers, time 0.20.....

Of course its natural!..

EVERYTHING IS OKAY IN FINLAND!!!

<3

[funkinsanity]

esto es solo consecuencia del cambio climatico, el planeta se equilibra a la buena o a la mala

[UfoEstland]

cooool =)))))

[AmoLanciano]

O.o

[ragw33d]

for daylight to nighttime in space of a few min

[niclashbg]

2 people pressed the wrong button

[shangrilaresort]

We were on our final approach to land at the airport when this storm struck. Landing aborted at last minute and had to divert to Tampere. The really crazy thing was it was daylight on one side of the aircraft and pitch black on the other!!

[speedotorpedo1234]

@shangrilaresort were you on the the easyjet flight that had to get a coach to helsinki, if you were i was on it too!

[shangrilaresort]

@speedotorpedo1234 Sorry I've not replied before. I've only just noticed your comment. Yes I was on that Easyjet flight. As luck would have it I got off the coach from Tampere just as the the last shuttle bus to the city centre was pulling up.

[OHTHERE]

Looks like, the " Gates of Hell " ... opening up. Great video!

[klaudioa7xhc]

esto es el colmo hasta cuando vamos a tolerar que los estadounidenes

hagan lo que qieran con nuestro planeta tierra

maldito proyecto haarp

[labinotejupa07]

HAARP 100 %

[KevinFili]

75 likes?? I mean - what the fuck?

[DaniHeroic]

What if the prophecies really start?! That would be even more scary...

[nemanjapuhalo]

The Flood

[andre3355]

jesus

[chilleffect]

@andre3355 yes?

[andre3355]

can you loan me just 20 000 000euros?thanks

[DGSE]

all those clouds full of water that Russia is waitin for...

[supermonster54]

I live in finland but not in Helsinki.

[jfatsnorlax]

cool shit

[kittywonka]

@Shailnar45 -- I grew up in the Midwest and this was one of the scariest storms I've been in. It came in so fast and the wind kicked up something fierce with constant and multiple lightning strikes as well was booming thunder. My husband, who is Cuban, was also amazed at the storm and likened it to hurricanes (although I think he just hadn't been in a proper thunderstorm in ages). It was, in a word, impressive.

[baracine]

What was the exact time? Also see my video of the same storm over Hietaniemi Beach: e_doIsFnqeg

[oldbikefilms]

beautiful



[Offlian]

Jesus, I thought that was a tidal wave for a second and it freaked me out.

[ChrisLARun]

@Offlian haha, me too!

[honeyrose06]

Well it did generate a tornado at Pori

[LovetteCher]

Where I lived before, it took 5 minutes to make a thunderstorm so loud you couldn't hear ANYTHING over it. The thunder literally never paused booming, and there was always lightning in three or more places.

Where I live now, it takes a half a day for the sky to prepare a quote storm unquote that lasts five minutes.

[royodell]

The Eastern Seaboard is tame compared to this..

[COURTANAYsayshey]

nothing happens in california. it just gets mildy hot ahahahahhahaa

[invalidbuffalo]

Is that wind or thunderclap clipping the microphone?

[pobthiti]

Its a supercell!!! A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone; a deep, continuously-rotating updraft. Of the four classifications of thunderstorms (supercell, squall line, multi-cell, and single-cell), supercells are the overall least common and have the potential to be the most severe.

[Marcus477]

@pobthiti Ehm.. thank you for the supercell (not requested) quick lesson, but how can you say that it's a supercell? Any concrete element? A bit of shelf isn't enough.

[kceovaisnt]

@OpheliaOgaard If those 20 years have been spent looking at the sky it doesn't quite count. A shelf cloud is a type of arcus cloud that appears on the front edge of a storm. That large cloud that separates the light shade to dark clouds at the first 15 seconds of the video is a classic shelf cloud. Marcus477 is right. The presence of a shelf is not enough to say supercell. location wise, I doubt there is enough instability. Yet these types of storms produce the most wind damage save for tropical

[kceovaisnt]

@OpheliaOgaard Do you have a thesis or capstone project for us to see? I somehow doubt that someone who has your attitude or who cannot identify a shelf cloud on a derecho has such a degree. If you indeed were an MS you would have returned argument pertaining to the presence of a shelf cloud as you claimed there wasn't one. Arguing the point by declaring you have some qualification just proves that you either don't have said degree or that you aren't fit to make a counterpoint or perhaps both.

[kceovaisnt]

@OpheliaOgaard Okay. I'll take that as a no. If you understood meteorology you would know that mesocyclones are located in the trailing edge of the storm. That's behind the rain core not infront. The video doesn't go that far. If you are going by the lateral movement of the shelf, that is straightline winds typical in bow echos. If you are talking about the swirling fractus at the beginning, that is streamwise vortices between the moist and dry air masses and are present in all frontal storms.

[kceovaisnt]

@OpheliaOgaard Did this graduate program teach you to make points by labeling others as stupid? Sorta convenient that you never rebutted anything. But I'm glad your busy schedule didn't get in the way of looking through my other interests. But I'm not offended. The engineering world has been very kind to me. So back to you, I injected my say because Marcus477 made a valid point. Even if wrong, it doesn't deserve some kid claiming to be a MS telling him to go to school. So I took you to school.

[kceovaisnt]

@OpheliaOgaard Yes, most engineers are very crude. If your line of work held you directly accountable for the lives of thousands to millions of people and millions of dollars of invested capital in a free market, you would be just as crude.

But seeing my posts and comparing them to yours would suggest that you are the one with the hot temper. That being said, a Master of science has no business conducting themselves the way you have over a subject of which you should have the burden of knowhow.

[kceovaisnt]

@OpheliaOgaard First, I'm not a structural or civil engineer. Secondly, engineers don't actually build anything. Third, what does this incident have to do with me?

While I agree that a mistake in forecasting say hurricane paths could cost lives, no meteorologist is ever held individually accountable for it. I think you might be thinking of accountability as responsibility. If I finalize a design and stamp my seal on it, a flaw that results in injury or death could mean a subpoena in my mail.

[kceovaisnt]

@OpheliaOgaard Since you can't dispute observations well, here is some external sources. Scandinavian radar archives on Meteox.com shows a concentrated fast-moving north bound mesoscale lowpressure system with a pronounced bow echo on the leading edge. This outflow dominated squall line is what you see in the video The huge shelf cloud is evidence of the overwhelming outflow. Since supercells are inflow dominated, this one isn't such. Also according to the ESWD, no mesocyclone were detected.

[kceovaisnt]

@pobthiti That is not a supercell. This storm had the presence of a strong gust front of descending cold air along the leading edge of the storm strong enough to kick up dust. Just before the rain hit, the winds stopped and was still through the precipitation core. In a supercell there is less intense gustfront but a sustained inflow wind toward the mesocyclone along the ground while under the storm base (horizontal rain). This storm has more characteristics of a "Derecho" type squall line.

[Shalinar45]

If you come to the US, head to the Mid-West and go on a weather tour...they see some SEVERE storms that make this one look tame. Not to diminish this one, mind, just that a lot of the storms here get even wilder.

[ACMDevils]

@Shalinar45 imho the problem is what happens and where, if something common happens 1000 times in a place it's normal, if something non common in a non common place than it's NOT normal.

would you expect Miami's conditions in Alaska ?

something is changing.

[usernameunauthorised]

it's The Nothing

[anthropreneur]

Damn nature, you scary!

[ach9552]

nature, you scary!

[kanervatie]

Check out "Crazy big storm approaches beach in Hietaniemi, Sweden UK" It's the same Helsinki strom (NOT SWEDEN!) but in much more scary way. Too bad the video quality is not as good as it is in the web bage it's from.

[cartesjean]

Heyyy ,minmar thanks  very very nice video.

[mistron]

Nice to see a storm approaching like this. Have never seen a video like this from real life footage before. Nice even though it is a very bad storm.

[cool0water0boy]

independence day?

[kanervatie]

@cool0water0boy

Check out "Crazy big storm approaches beach in Hietaniemi, Sweden UK" It's the same Helsinki strom (NOT SWEDEN!) but in much more scary way. Too bad the video quality is not as good as it is in the web bage it's from.

[cool0water0boy]

@kanervatie

ok m8 i will do it

[cool0water0boy]

@kanervatie

its always fascination how this can happen

[cool0water0boy]

@kanervatie

btw can you give me the link of the vid?

i cant find it

[MissSevenn]

oh my!! That is so scary.

like something from a movie/!