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Columbus, Ohio, heading east on 270

Hi! I’ve never posted on reddit before but i just got a memory on my phone of a cloud my dad and I saw on a road trip last year. I tried googling around to see if i could figure it out but I also just want to share how beautiful it is! Does anyone know what type of cloud this is?

Sweet storm

I see the little bit of rain and thunder to the east of Greenville, NC…. but what is the rest of the green that is showing throughout this area of Virginia? This is the radar in Wakefield, VA

Following a discussion on the TRX Discord server, I decided to try my hand at defining the boundaries of different "tornado alleys" or climatological regimes using actual data rather than just vibes.
To map these regimes, I performed clustering on 2° geographic cells using significant tornado data and parameters from 1950-2025, including monthly seasonality, local time of occurrence, storm motion direction, the proportion of F2/F3/violent tornadoes, era-adjusted path characteristics, outbreak clustering, and spatial proximity.
Ultimately, the analysis revealed that there's no single "correct" configuration of tornado alleys. Five-, seven-, and eight-region models yielded comparable results, and even my preferred clustering produced a low silhouette score of around 0.18. In short, because tornado climatology shifts continuously across regions, setting hard geographical boundaries is inevitably artificial.
Nonetheless, I believe these represent the most defensible regimes.

As you might've noticed, some regions weren't explicitly categorized because they fell outside my classification scheme:
The Upper Ohio-Allegheny area aligns more closely with the Northeast than the Lower Ohio/Hoosier region, though it features a higher proportion of violent tornadoes than the Northeast. It serves as a transitional zone into Hoosier Alley rather than a simple blend of the two.
Northern Minnesota functions as a northern-tier summer regime and represents the strongest candidate for a sub-regime. It combines High Plains-style seasonal concentration with intensity and outbreak traits typical of the Upper Midwest.
Southeastern Colorado / Northeastern New Mexico is a distinct transition zone displaying a climatological profile intermediate between the two main Plains regimes.
Extreme Southeastern Georgia acts as a coastal hinge zone, predominantly exhibiting Gulf-Florida climatology while gradually acquiring Piedmont/Mid-Atlantic characteristics further north and inland.

I’m trying to learn high/low pressure zones and how they move. The summer in Europe seems to be over but is there a possibility these high pressure zones will bring some nice weather?

Anyone please explain this thing what is this heavy rain outside and when I go to see then the RGB colour clouds sudden appear for long time and then the intensity is very high

Edit 2: Thank you for enlightening me on this bizarre scene of light and physics. I now understand! :)

Edit: Enough Reddit for today since y’all wanna take things so literally, and act like the sun is actually setting on the east, and call me the idiot just, bc, i asked a question. it’s called a question… abt weather? and I explained what im curious abt.
sorry y’all cant see past your own unintelligence into my intelligent human learning. (i see the sun set nearly every night and literally have never seen it once look this bizarrely on the complete other side, so ofc i’m curious as to knowing why it looks this way. Thank you.)

I was recording a thunderstorm as I realized the sun set… …was… …on the east… side..?

First 2 pictures are of the same house, during a thunderstorm, at 8pm, and on different days.

The first was taken on Tuesday (how it always looks)… …with the sun setting on the west side in-between the house and trees like always…

…The second one was Last night…

…no sun set at all there…

wanna know why?

Because the third pic is from Last night, too, of the very missing sunset being actually on the complete opposite side of the house… …and i'm literally using my compass and it’s pointed directly east at where the sunset was… …idk whats going on…

So may anyone please explain whats going on here..? kinda tripping me out💀😅

The video wont post

Note: tomorrow the whole country will probably be painted red, after all, another heat wave is arriving in the middle of winter.