Page 4 - Thunder Clouds News Today

He saw lightning in the distance, trying to record it when the lightning came a little bit too close. national weather service saw the video and tweeted a reminder. "one thunder roars, go indoors." not bad advice. you should know, america, lightning can strike even when there are clear skies and thunder clouds as far as 25 miles away. >> be careful. >> my wife always has great, one thunder roars, could you go outdoors? >> people who play guitars, take a look at what this guy did. ♪ >> he is fr...

What a mess. well, youre okay, i think what well do is we will take a look at some of the pictures while im talking to you now of some of the flooding thats taking place. this is about two hours from here where theyre in the process of doing water rescues. again, remember, the tornados are spawned out of the thunderclouds and the thunderclouds have a lot of rain. so thats caused some of the flash floods. so craig, as were looking at some of the pictures here of those water rescues, just remember...

Bit of a rest. but i believe there is something in the neighborhoods of 200 firefighters actively fighting. >> we talked about the brought. i know it was about 100 degrees even away from where the fire was. there was a little rain today, did it help? >> it helped briefly but we are so dry that once it gets up to 100 degrees again and the kinds of grasses we have we are right back to where we were yesterday, which is its still hot and there is thunder clouds in the area. its supposed to be 100 de...

Commercial area and burnt two or three fruit packing facilities. in the facilities theres certain chemicals that are used that are very flammable. very dangerous situation around noon today where we evacuated most of the downtown worried of an ammonia leak. but it dissipated into the sky. we got lucky. it was scary for a while. >> i can only imagine. do you know how these fires started? >> caller: they dont know for sure. theyre working on trying to protect structures at this point. they havent ...

Storms and why couldnt they this plane, fly near water to try to land? >> well in that region, the closer you go to the equator and dont forget on the southern hemisphere its their summer now and our winter up here in the north so the more heat the more vertical development you get with clouds or the thunder clouds, thunderstorms if you will. so those are going up and those were at 55,000 feet. that far exceeds the ceiling capability of this specific aircraft, and the pilot flying knows that so ...

That could override the pilots actual intent. what is your assessment of what could have happened base on the information we have? >> fly by wires, essentially what that means is the pilot puts in control input and those dont go directly to the control surfaces. rather they go to a computer which decides she put in this much input this is how im going flight controls. this aircraft limits what you can do because its a system that limits allowing you to pull too many gs or fly too high, for examp...

Not only will have you up and downdrafts and forces of nature affecting your airplane, but things like lightning within those thunder clouds can also impact your plane. lightning can cause you to have a major electrical failure in an airplane that would compound the problem. you cant see whats going on outside because youre in a cloud. you have up and down drafts and you could have lightning cause you to have a major electrical failure and not to mention things like icing that could occur probab...

Wedding, charles -- william and katherine drove themselves in i. >> we had the hottest day in london yesterday, 93 degrees. this evening the thunder clouds are gathering on the horizon so it looks like a huge downpour. i think the soft top is out. i have heard it said that william plans to drive himself -- drive his new family home from the hospital. well have to wait and see what happens there. >> every time the couple hops in a car, it is literally an ad for the british tourism bureau i think ...

Friends, anderson, that this could take weeks, months. hes never going to forget about this. >> forecasters saying that winds could reach 80 miles per hour there. whats the latest on the actual fire? >> reporter: what i can tell you is that it is 0% contained. you can see for yourself, though. thunder clouds are behind me, the winds are very erratic. thats been the biggest problem with fighting this fire, and thats what theyre looking at. but something we want to point out, anderson, is that for...

Latest updates on this topic.