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Let's admit, our Mother Nature could be easily titled as one of the most—if not the most—prominent artists on the face of the earth. The masterpieces she creates each and every day never fail to inspire us and make us feel things. Unfortunately, though, our daily lives and busy routines often distract us from noticing them. Luckily, there are people who do their best to remind us how magical nature truly is.
Kirill Bakanov (@WeatherSarov1 on Twitter) is a guy from Russia who has a Twitter account dedicated to sharing daily updates on the weather in Russia. Each of his posts includes an impressive picture presenting the mesmerizing piece of art the weather conditions that day have created. With that being said, Bored Panda invites you to look through some of the most fascinating Russian weather updates from Kirill Bakanov's Twitter account. Besides, we had a chance to ask Kirill some questions—you should definitely scroll down for the interview.
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Martin Roy 4 years ago
I saw a light pillar in Toronto Canada in the past month, approaching sunset.
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That is just bueatiful. The world can be so surprising, they look like UFOs!
M O'Connell 4 years ago
Moisture laden air is forced up to higher altitude by the geography where it condenses into ice crystals and forms a cloud.
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Sinkvenice 4 years ago
Wow, that's so beautiful. They look like someone's sculpted them from clay.
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"My name is Kirill. I have a science degree in ecology and geochemistry. Five years ago, after a severe storm which hammered my city, killing two people, I started to be interested in meteorology and severe weather," the owner of the Twitter account told Bored Panda.
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Cheryl Carter 4 years ago
That is amazingly beautiful! It is perfect. It is if it had a ruler and blueprints!! WOW! Nature truly captures me.
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Roxy Eastland 4 years ago
Wow. Kamchatka is so mysterious and enticing to me, I found out charoite crystals came from there so I looked it up on an atlas. So remote and I've come across nothing in documentaries or books about it. I'd love to see more of what it's like there, the scenery and the wildlife. The geology seems to be pretty interesting too!
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Hermione Granger 4 years ago
It’s a bendy rainbow just like your username!!! 😂
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I used to call these sun dogs. Just the simple one with 2 bright spots, 1 on either side of the sun.
Samuel Chen 4 years ago
Ok one: holy tacos how does that even exist! My mind is blown. Two: 1th
Robin Mayhall 4 years ago
Incredible. I'm so glad those of us in other parts of the world can see this!
When asked, how the idea to post these weather updates came to him, Kirill told us this: "I realized that to get more complete information on meteorology it was necessary to interact with scientists and amateurs from all over the world. That's how I discovered Twitter. When I started browsing Twitter, I saw that there is very little news on natural disasters from Russia, or it comes with a big delay. In 2018 I decided to share news from Russia with foreign readers."
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Average Grizzlies Fan 4 years ago
You could say that these were ice sculptures and I would believe you.
BluEyedSeoulite 4 years ago
I'm from Northern Indiana and this happened to us a few times. The roads weren't plowed anyway so we just waited for the sun to melt the ice. Usually took just one day
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Trav May 4 years ago
"Uh, boss, I won't be in today." Boss: "I don't think anyone's going to be in today."
Diver Driver 4 years ago
Only thing worse is if the freezing rain occurred at work!
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Daria B 4 years ago
As seen by the face of the car in the right photo, they try to be tough, but not everyone makes it.... u.u
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Steve Cruz 4 years ago
Denver has had freezing rain -- not this bad -- but it turned all the streets and sidewalks into sheets of ice that were impassible even by emergency vehicles. Sand trucks tried to spread grit and just slid out of control on the slightest slope.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
Imagine rushing to your car at 7:30 am on a Monday morning to drive to work and finding... this. I'm screaming inside on behalf of all those poor people who had to defreeze their car somehow.
H Edwards 4 years ago
I remember this happening in the UK one time back in the 90s, it was incredible. Everything covered in a layer of ice, although not as thick as in this picture. Made walking anywhere practically impossible.
Tiari 4 years ago
We had something similar in Germany in 2012. The trams did not work for three days, because the power lines and the tracks froze faster they could unfreeze/scrape them.
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"Дорогая, я думаю, нам нужно больше фенов ..." Translation: Honey, I think we need more blow dryers..."
Jessica 4 years ago
how do u function with this happening? is this a permissible reason to call off work? I have no idea how u would de-ice a car so frozen
Jennifer Crompton 4 years ago
We've had this happen in Northern Illinois and yes, everyone stays home. The roads aren't drivable anyway. It was the only time I remember that there wasn't even mail delivery that day. I've lived through many blizzards and the mail carrier always shows up even if they're late.
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Average Grizzlies Fan 4 years ago
I wonder who has the orange lightsabers!
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Julius Martin 4 years ago
when suslu beams them up, light beams are left for a few seconds
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Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
Planes get hit by lightnings quite often. Electronics are grounded so it's very very rare the plane would crash or harm anyone on board. They get checked upon landing but there is normally no damage.
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olivier FRESSE 4 years ago
The planes are in fact faraday cages. As long as they are metallic ... This is a problem with composite airplanes which have to incorporate metal mesh on the surface of non-metallic parts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage
Monika Rhodes 4 years ago
Most of the times they do- they're grounded so the lightning just 'passes' through.
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Faith Nicole 4 years ago
That is a terrible thing to happen . With an incredible photo of lightning in the process. Praying nobody was hurt/killed
"Most of the photos and videos I find on Vkontakte (most popular social media in Russia), Instagram and Facebook. I use keywords to search for news. For example, смерч (tornado), ураган (severe wind) etc. I also monitor the situation on volcanoes and thunderstorm activity," Kirill told us. "Approximately 5 percent of the content I do myself."
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Cheryl Carter 4 years ago
Isn't this kinda rare? They don't happened very much, right? Stunning!
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Kyle D 4 years ago
Well thank goodness they remembered to put the wipers up so they wouldn't freeze to the windshield.
Jaclyn 4 years ago
What do you even do with this? Get a bunch of friends together for a hairdryer party??
Johanne Trudeau 4 years ago
I hope the person is not in a hurry to get anywhere because it's gong to take a while to get out of that cocoon!!
When asked, what he enjoys the most about posting these updates, Kirill told us this: "When I post the news, first of all, my goal is to tell the world about beautiful and extreme weather events in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. When a post gets a lot of views, I understand that people need such content."
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Aragorn II Elessar 4 years ago
Lord of the Rings is better. For Game of Thrones, if I wanted to watch porn, I’d watch porn. I’m trying to follow the plot, and boobs keep getting in the way.
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Average Grizzlies Fan 4 years ago
When the storm starts: download-5...12979.jpeg 
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Marvin HeartofGold 4 years ago (edited)
Oh good, I'm not the only one to decorate for Christmas before the end of November
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Capelli rosa e patate 4 years ago (edited)
Unfortunately I doubt it. Norilsk is hardly a fitting place for humans to live. It was actually built by gulag prisoners way back when. It stays in the negatives for months and months, not to mention that due to their mines, the air, soil and even the rain is poisonous.
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s. vitkovitsky 4 years ago
Possibly noctilucent means bright at night, and I'd like to know how this cloud does that.
Margaret Mayhugh 4 years ago
Just guessing but days are long in June this far north, so maybe reflecting ambient light from an incomplete sunset? I know far enough north the sun will move close to the horizon but not quite set, so maybe if you're right on that cusp it'll look dark but the clouds could still reflect sunlight from it being so near the horizon
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SirPatTheCat 4 years ago
Since this was the picture as the one above but from a different angle wouldn’t it be funny if you could see the other photographer in the distance off to the right xD
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Average Grizzlies Fan 4 years ago
It'll be hard to get to the pot of gold. It's at the bottom of whatever type of body of water that is (sorry, I don't know names).
Alison Marchand 4 years ago
One time while driving I saw what looked like the end of the rainbow. My friend in the passenger seat and I were noticing this rainbow for a little while then all of a sudden in one of the breaks in the trees the rainbow appeared to dip down into the clearing. Like it was in front of some trees and behind some others. Super weird, and glad I had a witness so I knew I wasn't seeing things 😅 but yeah, this would be a tough one to reach
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
Next time I go to Russia, I won't go in the summer! Apparently all the cool stuff happens when it's cold!
fainasKeturatis 4 years ago
no wonder Russians are that strange - they are living in a fairytale.
Bettye McKee 4 years ago
Kirill Bakanov, A thousand thanks for sharing these magnificent photos with us.
Petra Schaap 4 years ago
fabulous pics! I can imagine some of these things would scare the sh!t out of people back in the old days and that they started to invent gods etc :-)
Jo Choto 4 years ago
Next time I go to Russia, I won't go in the summer! Apparently all the cool stuff happens when it's cold!
fainasKeturatis 4 years ago
no wonder Russians are that strange - they are living in a fairytale.
Bettye McKee 4 years ago
Kirill Bakanov, A thousand thanks for sharing these magnificent photos with us.
Petra Schaap 4 years ago
fabulous pics! I can imagine some of these things would scare the sh!t out of people back in the old days and that they started to invent gods etc :-)
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