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Elevated Whale’s Mouth

2026-03-04 By Roger Edwards

Elevated Whale's Mouth

Swerving this way and that, a strange but explainable cloud formation hovered over the north-central Nebraska Sandhills like a giant, fluid abstract painting.  The core at right — earlier stronger, but now dying — produced a shelf cloud atop a deepening layer of stable outflow from other storms that already had cooled the airmass near the surface substantially.  Still cooler, yet still buoyant, condensation rise from the edge of the core into the underside of the “whale’s mouth” texturing, rendering a feature driven by double-outflow processes.

5 SW Kennedy NE (9 Jul 25) Looking ESE
42.5054, -100.8941

Filed Under: Gallery of Outflow, Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: arcus, clouds, convection, Great Plains, Kennedy, landscapes, Nebraska, outflow, Sandhills, shelf cloud, 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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