Beauty, or ugliness, is in the eye of the beholder, especially when it comes to cloud forms. In this case, I’d call it both, rendering a weird and somewhat otherworldly sky unlike any I’ve seen in a very long time. The supercell started out high-based, its outflow strong enough to loft countless thousands of tons of openly exposed, west Texas topsoil, its inflow slowly growing intense enough to do the same. Where the inflow and outflow converged, from distant middle to lower left, the dust was the thickest. Meanwhile, above that, a spiraling, low/middle-level cloud band formed that doesn’t have a formal name, that I sometimes call “ring of Saturn”, and that I’ve seen around a few other supercells.
3 W New Home TX (23 May 19) Looking W
33.3275, -101.9637Dusty Supercell with “Ring of Saturn”
Beauty, or ugliness, is in the eye of the beholder, especially when it comes to cloud forms. In this case, I’d call it both, rendering a weird and somewhat otherworldly sky unlike any I’ve seen in a very long time. The supercell started out high-based, its outflow strong enough to loft countless thousands of tons of openly exposed, west Texas topsoil, its inflow slowly growing intense enough to do the same. Where the inflow and outflow converged, from distant middle to lower left, the dust was the thickest. Meanwhile, above that, a spiraling, low/middle-level cloud band formed that doesn’t have a formal name, that I sometimes call “ring of Saturn”, and that I’ve seen around a few other supercells.
3 W New Home TX (23 May 19) Looking W
33.3275, -101.9637