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Early Supercell Growing Mustache

2022-08-11 By Roger Edwards

Early Supercell Growing Mustache

My late friend and scientific colleague Al Moller said, “Beware storms with mustaches!”, a storm-spotter caution referring to the early stages of wall-cloud development.  This young supercell, with midlevel rotation gradually developing downward, was in the process of growing one from the detached, fractocumulus scud chunk rising atop rain-cooled forward-flank air.   The core at right, and lift from the early-stage mesocyclone, were responsible.  Alas, this high-based storm endured too much of its own outflow, and that from other convection that had passed to its east (behind us), and never realized a more mature supercellular stage.  Instead, it merged with backbuilding convection to its southeast, and turned into a pretty but rainy mess.   Just a couple days earlier, and a couple miles from here, I shot a beautiful twilight storm with a nice pyrotechnical show.

6 W Sharon Springs KS (6 Jun 22) Looking W
38.901, -101.8522

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: clouds, convection, fractocumulus, Great Plains, Kansas, landscapes, scud, Sharon Springs, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, weather, Weskan

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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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