Lucas Adler Photography

Jaw-dropping supercell in the Nebraska Sandhills.

A short time after this image, we positioned for the tornado in the inflow notch. Extra seconds of contemplation costed us to encounter wind-driven baseballs, destroying our beloved Dodge Durango.

Chased with

June 2024

(power lines removed during post-processing)

Last year in Italy with Julien. We ran for our lives after the next bolt landed just a few meters behind us. Fun times!

Incroyable foudroiement excessivement proche photographié conjointement par .adler.photo & durant la nuit du 23 au 24 Octobre 2023 près de Chiavari en Italie ! Vous pouvez observer sur la photo le phénomène de déplacement du canal de foudre de l'impact de gauche dû au puissant Sirocco qui soufflait au moment de la prise de vue. #

A week has passed since I landed back home.

2024 brought me in the path of the most beautiful thunderstorms I have ever seen. This year, motherships were many, and made up for the lack of scoring a beautiful tornado.

This tornadic flying saucer stood still right outside of Boise City, OK in the middle of the night. The structure was perfect: sculpted mesocyclone, RFD wrapping around the wall cloud, crisp inflow tail… this thing was flickering non-stop to the sound of tornado sirens.

I could not sleep that night.

May 30, 2024

Tornadic supercell at sunset today, dropping a positive bolt as it gained strong inflow.

I saw two tornadoes on this supercell. First one was more likely a landspout nested under the flanking line, the second one was a rain-wrapped mesocyclonic noodle.

Seagraves TX, May 30, 2024

Ultra-branched desert lightning

Active Red Sea Trough of October 20, 2022, Sinai Peninsula (Egypt)

Triple strike on the sea this morning

There’s nothing like waking up to the sound of thunder and rushing to the beach to enjoy a good show. Gotta enjoy these winter mornings while they last! Soon, there will be no more rain until the fall…

Swipe to see zoomed-in images of the impact points with multiple upward leaders.

Anak Krakatau

The child of Krakatoa is the beast that grows where Krakatoa used to be. Ever since the cataclysmic eruption in 1883, Krakatoa grows again.

The Child is just as mean as the parent. In 2018, our local fixer recalled, an eruption-driven collapse triggered a tsunami that divided the population of the small town we stayed in by two. The poor man had to climb up a coconut tree and endure the flow of debris which marked his body for the rest of his life.

I did not sleep much when we camped inside the caldera. Captivated, frightened and crippled by a timely sciatica, I could not look away. Around 3am, a Vulcanian eruption began.

January 2023

Yesterday delivered the best storm structures of the year in Israel.

This textured play between the sky and the sea occurred last night as a squall line classically broke on the land breeze front, ingesting ambient vorticity. This was one of several supercells and bow echos that could be seen all over the Mediterranean coast of Israel yesterday.

A setup to be remembered!

February 15, 2024

Sakurajima

Lava glow during a nighttime eruption

March 2023

Perfect beach weather in Israel lately!

Dryden tornado
Windmill for scale

June 2, 2023

Dusty beast in southern Texas last year

June 2, 2023

LP supercell stacking plates in New Mexico

May 31, 2023

Colorful scene as a marginal supercell transitions to linear mode in the plains of New Mexico.

June 3, 2023

San Jon monster supercell, between between two tornadoes. My all time favorite storm!

May 24, 2023

משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם - The Israeli monsoon

The SE Mediterranean « return of the wind and rain » fits the definition of a monsoon. Although less famous than its Indian and SE Asian counterparts, the Israeli monsoon is of major historical and religious significance. We even have a blessing for it, that we say during the winter months. It caught my attention from a very young age, well before I could understand its meaning - ‎« who causes the return of the wind and the descent of the rain » ‎משיב הרוח ומוריד הגשם

It’s no coincidence these thunderstorms are structurally reminiscent of the SE Asian monsoon storms.

December 2023

Direct hit on a tower in Tel Aviv

December 13, 2023

Supercell above Tel Aviv earlier this week.

Yet another case of full-blown supercell riding the land breeze in seemingly unfavorable dynamics. The mechanics of winter supercells here in Israel are fascinating.
The mesocyclone hovered just off Tel Aviv for about an hour.

December 13, 2023

With my friend , we experienced last month an intense lightning sequence in the coastal mountains of Liguria.

This double impact fell some 200m away.

The left channel (zoomed in the second photo) got pushed away by the strong scirocco, and resulted in a visibly separated and parallel channel. The details captured are exceptional: rare flame-like features within the second channel, most likely bits of plasma pushed by the wind as the channel decayed.

This sequence culminated with the next impact, which struck just a few meters behind us.

Benkelman

A brilliant example of an occluded tornado minding its own business in clear sky, fully separated from the parent supercell.

הגיע זמן 🇮🇱

The first rains are welcomed as a blessing here in Israel.
May they bring better days for our region ✌🏽

Today in central Israel. An amazing display of extra-cloud lightning and greenish sky.

Mammatus extravaganza

June 2, 2023

Classic supercell in the remote highlands south of Fort Stockton, Texas.

June 7, 2023

Peeking into the crater of Tangkuban Parahu on the island of Java, Indonesia.

Storm-force winds were blowing up the 2000m volcano, with monsoon clouds occasionally clearing the view to a geological wonderland.

Standing there, on the edge of the crater, truly feels like being on another planet.

Semeru

January 2023

Heavenly storm in the New Mexico shire

May 25, 2023

An incredible run south to the Mexican border led me to witness a tornadic supercell exhibiting its naked, tornado-producing updraft.

This rare tornado/structure combo was the pinnacle of my 2023 storm chasing expedition in the Great Plains.

Swipe to zoom on the first touchdown of the Dryden, TX tornado.

June 2, 2023

Elevated

May 24, 2023

Nebraska Sandhills

June 2023

Isolated supercell from above yesterday evening - Italian Piemonte

July 12, 2023