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Chisos Mountains Stratocumulus

2019-01-29 By Roger Edwards

Chisos Mountains Stratocumulus

Unusually moist conditions for a normally hot, dry time of year kept the Big Bend desert floor bounteously abloom, and supported stratocumulus clouds in the top of the boundary layer, where they were penetrated by the Chisos Mountains. Strong surface heating and destabilization mixed these clouds away within less than an hour. That heating also weakened already meager capping in advance of storms that would move out of the Mexican high country to the southwest, and greet us elsewhere in the park.

20 E Terlingua TX (21 May 15) Looking SSW
29.3365, -103.2586

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: Big Bend National Park, Chisos Mountains, clouds, convection, deserts, mountains, National Parks, stratocumulus, Texas, 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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