Weather and Sky Gallery :: Miscellaneous Corona seen around the sun in the northern Colorado mountains. Downed telophone poles from the 135+ mph chinook windstorm of January 1982. Blowing dust lofted to great heights over Boulder, Colorado associated with a strong cold front. Contrail at sunset. A haboob, or dust storm, over eastern Colorado. Five meteorologists hanging onto a metal gate during a thunderstorm. The National Severe Storms Laboratory mobile sounding laboratory (M-CLASS). VORTEX Probe-3 vehicle with crew members. VORTEX Probe vehicles and mobile tower enroute to an encounter with Hurricane Georges. Leonids meteor shower, November, 2001. Comet Hale-Bopp, March, 1997. Comet Hale-Bopp, March, 1997. Return to The Weather Gallery index page.