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This Wyoming superstorm time-lapse is what nightmares are made of

A preview of the coming apocalypse.

Photo of Miles Klee

Miles Klee

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Want to relive that scene in the last episode of True Detective where Matthew McConaughey, lost in a psychopath’s occult labyrinth, hallucinates a great funneling storm cloud? Then go log into your parents’ HBO Go account, because this Wyoming supercell is the real deal.

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Wow, Wyoming – What a thunderstorm! See time lapse: https://t.co/rv7s4VKztF (Photo via @basehunters) pic.twitter.com/Hrn7Oi822M

— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) May 19, 2014

A Basehunters crew driving from the town of Wright to Newcastle filmed the eye-popping structure as it spiraled into being, and their time-lapse video is nothing short of gobsmacking.

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Wouldn’t it be great if the end of the world looked like this? Then Bill Nye and evangelical climate change deniers could both be right. 

H/T Hypervocal | Photo via BasehuntersChasing/YouTube

 
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