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Front-Lit Backshear

2024-04-03 By Roger Edwards

Front-Lit Backshear

A visually breathtaking yet symbolic scene unfolded one fine evening as NSSL’s research radar reflected a little of the sunset glow, in turn reflected from a strongly backsheared supercell over southern Oklahoma.  [This isn’t the usual meaning of “radar reflectivity”!]  The storm launched an overshooting top that, with time (below) tilted slightly westward.  Some of the overshooting dome actually extended over part of the backsheared cloud material and was rising above the clear-air notch.  In the photo below, the fuzzy area in the backshear’s notch consists of frozen precipitation (likely hail) falling from the tilted convective plume.

Norman OK (Oct 4) Looking S
35.2371,-97.4615

Filed Under: Sunsets and Sunrises, The Majestic Supercell Tagged With: backshear, clouds, convection, mammatus, Norman, Oklahoma, radar, reflectives, storms, sunsets, supercells, 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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