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Foothills Crepusculars

2024-08-19 By Roger Edwards

Foothills Crepusculars

Brilliant crepuscular rays, carved out by foreground towering cumuli, contrasted themselves nicely against the dark shadow of a remnant anvil overhead, and background storms in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northeastern New Mexico.  This sparsely inhabited area of the High Plains between the mountains and I-25 is seldom traveled by storm observers, given that a dryline sets up well east of here for most of spring, then by the time favorable moisture backs into the mountains, stronger shear/instability combinations are displaced well to the north in Colorado and/or Wyoming.  However, this area can offer memorable scenes when the occasion arises!

7 NNW Springer NM (8 Jun 22) Looking WNW
36.4554, -104.6493

Filed Under: Visual Effects Tagged With: clouds, convection, crepuscular rays, fractocumulus, Great Plains, landscapes, mountains, New Mexico, Sangre de Cristo Mountains, scud, Springer, storms, thunderstorms, towering cumulus, 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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