Cobus van Zyl Storm Chaser Photography

17/12/2024

17 December 2024, Roodeplaat, Pretoria
My current views of an incoming storm system.

10/12/2024

Clash of the Titans, 10 December 2024, Roodeplaat
This is going to get interesting!

10/12/2024

10 December 2024, Annlin
My view earlier this afternoon.

10/12/2024

10 December 2024, Annlin & Roodeplaat
Some Mmamatus clouds I spotted a few minutes ago.

27/11/2024

27 November 2024 - Roodeplaat, Pretoria

Big storm systems towards the north of our location.

27/11/2024

27 November 2024 - Roodeplaat, Pretoria

Big storm systems towards the north of our location.

26/11/2024

24 November 2024 Roodeplaat, Pretoria
Total combined composite image of all the shots I got from the storm systems which came through earlier this that evening. This was my second take on this storm system.

26/11/2024

24 November 2024 - Roodeplaat, Pretoria

Coffee break time!

I captured this single shot of triple lightning strikes on Sunday afternoon at 18:27. My son and I watched this wide storm system move in from the southeast. The eastern part of the storm system was quite active with CG lightning strikes.

My settings for this shot were; 4s - F22, ISO 100, with my Nikon D5100 with a Nikon 18-55mm lens.

24/11/2024

24 November 2024 Roodeplaat, Pretoria
Composite image of storm systems which came through earlier this evening.

24/11/2024

24/11/2024

24 November 2024 Roodeplaat, Pretoria
Storm systems moving in

14/11/2024

Memories!!!

08/11/2024

Waiting for the Dragons
7 November 2024,
Roodeplaat, Pretoria

Last night's storm system wasn't that much of a lightshow. I was more interested in the cloud formations, and I've tracked this system since the afternoon.

These days I don't get much time to do storm chasing like I used to do a few years back. I miss my old chasing territory, back in the Vaal Triangle. There it was case of doing 7km through suburban areas,to get into the open country side, with endless views out for about 30-40km.

Here where I reside now is a another story, and I make do with where I can shoot from and when I can.

I managed to get a few shots from our "driveway" so to speak last night. The Mooipoort Golf Club grounds was an option to shoot from, but from what I saw on the weather apps, was that this storm system has a wide band of rain in front of it. So any proper shots of this storm system, rain free, were not possible. But, like I mentioned before, I was more interested in the cloud formations of this system.

In the bottom left corner of this composite image was what I was looking for. I saw earlier on social media, beautiful photos of Mmamatus cloud formations, which are very beautiful. But these formations to the trained eye, are usually signs of a mesocyclone lurking about with the possibility of tornados.

It seems that luck was on everyone's side last night, with no reports of any tornado activity.

Hopefully over the weekend, I will get another chance to get better shots of storms predicted for our area.

Keep safe everyone!