Weather Photos/Videos

Cloud to ground lightning strikes


Rime ice/frost on the top of Mt. Washington, New Hampshire
(the worst weather on Earth)

Video from weather channel documenting Mt. Washington's horrific weather including high winds above 200 mph!



Blizzard conditions over the great lakes


February snow in Hawaii (Mauna Kea)- 2/28/12
The graphic below shows California's horrible drought this winter




Tornado that struck southern Illinois on 2/28/12

Damage associated with this storm shown below




Interesting storm cloud pattern in New Zealand

Nimbostratus cloud sequence from my hotel in Panama City Beach this past spring break! This storm produced very heavy rain and lots of lightning.

(All photos are copyrighted by Matthew Drahnak)

Wind speed map that I created using ArcMap for surface winds on February 29, 2012. Data was collected from http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/ml/gis/index.html





Campus microclimate maps I created using ArcMap, all data was collected using GPS units from campus.

 Dew Point, no vents

 Temperatures outside without steam vent anomalies

Temperatures with steam vent anomalies

Kriging Value map for Temperature values with vents

Kriging Value map for Temperature values with out vents

Kriging Value map for wind speed in mph

Tornados hit Dallas April 3,2012, Semi truck being thrown into the air in the middle of the photo

Chart showing record high temperatures for March 2012

This is a forecast that a meterologist should never screw up

Raw footage of the four feet of hail that fell in Texas on April 11,2012

Shelf cloud in Alabama



We have had less tornados so far this year than last year. This is due to the southeast tornado outbreak last year!

Below are maps I made using different interpolation methods for temperature data on April 18, 2012. This was for Advanced GIS.

The first map I created was using the IDW interpolation method

The next method I used was the GPI method

This map was made using the LPI method.

Ordinary Kriging

Simple Kriging

Universal Kriging