42 Awe Inspiring Photos of Extreme Weather

by Bill Jones

This popular post was originally published August of last year. I wanted to share it with our new readers who might not have had a chance to venture into our archives yet.

Mother Nature can really unleash some fury when she wants to. Its amazing how something can be so destructive and beautiful at the same time. Here are 42 examples of some of the most beautiful extreme weather photography I have ever seen. Enjoy.

Jim Reed
I wanted to start off with the king of extreme weather photography, Jim Reed. Jim’s photos are considered some of the best in the world. Make sure and check out his new book Storm Chaser: A Photographer’s Journey – http://www.stormchaserbook.com

Mike Hollingshead
Mike shoots some of the most incredible storms I have ever seen. Make sure and check out his site http://www.extremeinstability.com. He has a ton of terrific shots. Check out his prints also.

Eric Nguyen

Alan Nyiri

Joe

Marty Pouwelse

Kenneth Fugate

Extreme Weather

PhotoNinja

Extreme Weather

Dennis Jones

Extreme Weather

Mike Theiss

Extreme Weather

Ultimate Chase

Extreme Weather

Ngy Thanh

Extreme Weather

iblue

Extreme Weather

Hurricane Ike

Extreme Weather

OKWeatherWatch

Extreme Weather

Jorn C Olsen

Extreme Weather

Woman in Snow

Extreme Weather

Ice Storms

Extreme Weather

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For those who would like to share their extreme weather photography please feel free to join our flickr group and add your images to the pool. Make sure and tag your weather images with “TPA_Storm”. From the pool of images we will be selecting the best examples of extreme weather photography and showcasing them in a future article. This can mean some great exposure and your images will be inspiring photographers from around the world.

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52 Comments

Black said:

Wow ! That’s impressive.
Gloson said:

Wow… These photos are simply impressive! I love Nature!
Lord Narmo said:

Those photos are really amazing !
PNFphotography said:

These are AWESOME thank you for sharing them….
Nora Reed said:

Wow, I am still shocked by a lot of these. They are just incredible. I would love to know the locations of some of these, especially the ice storm photos. Where ever that is, I don’t think I want to live there. Nature can create some pretty incredible phenomenons. We just have to roll with the punches. Thanks
Henry said:

Wow! Some of those cloud shots just look crazy.
Evil Mammoth said:

There are few things that look as terrifying as a supercell thunderstorm.
Lianne Mckeown said:

Wow these pictures are awe inspiring and so impressive!! I would love to be able to shoot pictures of this kind of weather!
steve jackson said:

amazing pics, ive been in some of those, theyre scary stuff, brave photographers.
marsha charlebois said:

Just incredible!!!
Lee sun-young said:

wow!! Sometimes any pictures very scary!!
Donghwan Kim said:

wow…. very wonderful Is that photograph fact?
Bill Jones said:

All of these pictures are real. Its crazy how much danger someone will put themself in to get the shot. Check out the video of Jim Reed running up to the tornado. Crazy stuff.
Korea(Heo seok-hyun) said:

Wow! This photo is very impressive! I live in South Korea has four seasons. South Korea looks so very beautiful. But this picture is seen as a kind of a disaster. I have not seen it once the weather is one of the ocean.
lee83ys said:

Wow! Some of those cloud shots just look crazy.
Globalshots said:

Realy love this set, thanks for sharring
yoxx said:

awesome…
LIM said:

wow.. like this weather never in korea
inho said:

wow! 엄청나게 멋지네요..

저런사진을 목숨걸고 찍으시는 분들도 대단하다는..
조정환 said:

우와 해외 사이트네요…멋진사진 많이 보고 갑니다
delade said:

Great post thanks for sharing. Congratulations to the photographers, for these great shots! Storm chasers, please be careful and mindful of the danger out there; we can live without the spectacular shots but, not without YOU. =)
Aninditha Arale said:

Subhanallah..
정성호 said:

우와…. 멋진데?

Those photos are really amazing !
raftinginganges.com said:

WoW!!
designiac said:

WOW, I didn’t even know clouds like the “Mammatus clouds” in the photos from Jorn Olsen existed. Beautiful and strange.
Myles Steyn said:

Just Amazing!
Donna said:

Being from southern California I have NEVER seen anything like these photos in person. Totally awesome!!!! Thanks for sharing.
3szt3r said:

Cumulonimbus Mamatus… – and I’m still in the process of picking up my jaw from the floor…
Thanks a lot for this collection! and for the blog as well!
Lilian said:

just amazing…

the second from the bottom with the ice storm looks like Geneva, can that be?
Brad said:

Awesome photos! I’m glad I was nowhere near any of those storms.
Windy May said:

Some of those shots are absolutely amazing. Fantastic collection of mother nature’s wrath and glory.
배정탁 said:

Those photos are really amazing !
wow this is truth??
신기하넴 ㅋ
Jan Middleton said:

Mother Nature in all her majesty always amazes me.
Bonita said:

OMW!! those lightning images are absolutely stunning! Especially the blue & purple sky with the trucks, from “extreme instability” – that’s the most beautiful lightning shot I’ve ever seen!!

I followed the link through to the site, but where can I find that exact image?
carolina said:

wouuuuu impressive as our nature reacts … photographs are incredibly beautiful but also incredibly terrifying
love from chile
JNB72 said:

I’m a newbie to photography and some of these have blown my mind. AWESOME, but I now realize I have a lot to learn.
Mila said:

Only one word. Wow.
Kae said:

love love the shots! amazingly beautiful!
thalia said:

i’m feeling so lucky and i think the nature likes me so much.the pictures are incredible and amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stefy said:

these photos are incredible i haven’t seen like this before in my life. i wish u the best .
Sarah said:

This pictures really put things into perspective! Thank you for sharing them! Peter Lik is a world renouned photographer who captures incredible shots of nature, if you are not familiar check out some of his work: http://peterlik.com/photography/horizontal
Mariá Concepción said:

AWESOME!!
Katja Nina said:

awesome and very scare selection there.
Ice storm pics reminded me time when I tried to get my car out or similar weather conditions, luckily less icy though.
Art of Concept said:

Really awesome photography!! I loved the post ending with ice storms :D Spectacular photos!
juan said:

woww.. these pictures are stiking, yet extraordinary, we note the work of photographers
Lokanin said:

There are some brave photographers around! You would not get me anywhere near of those tornados! Fantastic pictures.
MikSas said:

Fantastic composition, though some (if not most) look they spent much time in post-production (strips the “rawness”, imho).

Nevertheless, all are smashing photos in my book!
Gergana said:

I lived in Switzerland for 7 years, and I clearly remember this ice storm in Versoix!!! One cold winter…
camerarumors said:

truly nice images. thanks for posted this
neha said:

the photos r very nice.i didnt ever saw these type of photos.thnks for sharing them
photo hints said:

What inspirational photography! Totally scared of what the planet is capable of throwing at us though!!
sivamanojk said:

excellent ,terriffic and dynamic