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Cottonwood Shelf: South View

2022-08-22 By Roger Edwards

Cottonwood Shelf: South View

[Part 1 of 3]  The merger of an outflow-dominant, large supercell with another, much younger, also large supercell resulted in a fiercely severe, rotating complex of thunderstorms.  That cluster briefly offered a wild outflow shelf scene in the golden hour before sunset, before I bailed south to shoot twilight lightning on its backside.  This sharp arcus denoted the southern rim of the outflow surge.  The full docket of gust-front clouds is visible, from the midlevel laminar-uplift zone to the front-lit shelf itself, and cold, slate-blue scud beneath.  This feature spanned almost half the sky, from west-southwest to northeast… [Go to Part 2]

2 WNW Cottonwood SD (12 Jun 22) Looking W
43.9709, -101.9484

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow Tagged With: arcus, clouds, convection, Cottonwood, Great Plains, landscapes, outflow, 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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