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Cryptic Left Mover

2020-08-24 By Roger Edwards

Cryptic Left Mover

On the way from intercepting the Faith HP hail machine toward intercepting another right-moving hail producer near Rapid City, my own course got intercepted.  This storm formed to the south of the most direct route, evolved into a left-moving, elongated, anticyclonic supercell, and traveled northeastward across the best course.  It also produced a large area of outflow that crippled, but did not kill, the Rapid City storm as the latter traveled further southeast toward the Badlands.  In the meantime, on a network of long dirt roads that get rather slick in rain, I had to deal with this somewhat annoying, yet beautiful and interesting storm that got in the way—certainly an attention-grabber.  The left-mover actually produced a modestly clockwise-rotating wall cloud (lower right) for a short time, before the entire convective area started getting undercut by both its own outflow and that flung far southwestward by the hail machine.

Elm Springs SD (4 Jun 20) Looking WSW
44.3055, -102.5288

Filed Under: The Majestic Supercell Tagged With: cemetery, clouds, convection, Elm Springs, Great Plains, landscapes, South Dakota, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, wall clouds, 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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