Nice cloud !

[FlyBoy1960]

was driving home yesterday afternoon and grabbed this photograph looking towards the east. This is a cloud out over the ocean just off the Gold Coast.   Pretty powerful activity going on, the photograph doesn't really do it justice

 

[onetrack]

Wowee! You wouldn't want to get caught up in that, would you!! 

 

I can recall reading about a pilot in Germany many years ago, who flew a glider into a cumulonimbus cloud. The glider broke up with the vicious air currents in the cloud, and the pilots body was found miles away - encased in ice!!

[FlyBoy1960]

32 minutes ago, onetrack said:

Wowee! You wouldn't want to get caught up in that, would you!! 

 

I can recall reading about a pilot in Germany many years ago, who flew a glider into a cumulonimbus cloud. The glider broke up with the vicious air currents in the cloud, and the pilots body was found miles away - encased in ice!!

 

The same happened to a young Japanese paraglidder pilot who was flying out near Manila in New South Wales. The temperatures were close to 40° and they found  her frozen body 24-hours later apparently still rockhard except for the thin layer of skin which had thawed out.

[facthunter]

Cumulus whopperus, Keep well away especially from under and ahead of the "anvil" where you'll usually get hail sometimes in clear air,