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Arcus over Badlands Grasslands

2024-08-10 By Roger Edwards

Arcus over Badlands Grasslands

Unlike the Great Western Derecho, which roared into the Badlands larger and more severe in intensity, yet more skeletal in cloud-form, this severe-thunderstorm complex had grown a well-developed shelf cloud for well over two hours and a hundred miles, and sent it careening through the gem of Great Plains national parks, to the dismay of campers and hikers.   As common as raging outflow is on the High Plains, and as many of these as I have witnessed, I never cease to appreciate their grandeur, nor to imagine how fearsome and unsettling this kind of process had to appear to wagon-riding pioneers and sod-house homesteaders newly transplanted from their relatively tranquil former residences in the East.  For as many of these as brought merely wildly interesting clouds, strong wind, refreshingly cool outflow and needed rain, at least as many others fronted destructive gusts, deadly lightning, huge hail, and flash floods.

6 NW Interior SD (10 Jun 24) Looking N
43.7957, -102.0456

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow Tagged With: arcus, Badlands, clouds, convection, Great Plains, Interior, landscapes, National Parks, scud, shelf cloud, South Dakota, storms, thunderstorms, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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