[Part 1 of 2] On a humid late-autumn morning, a seemingly ordinary cold front made quite the spectacle of itself! This was one of the most impressive non-thunderstorm shelf clouds I’ve seen: front-lit by a southeastern sun, set beneath wispy cirrus, and above a rolling landscape of semi-rural acreage carpeted by the autumnal fawn and dun of dormant grass. Surface heating and vertical mixing hadn’t set in much yet, allowing mostly smooth, laminar flow over cold air to form this sharply defined arcus. [Go to Part 2]
Norman OK (17 Nov 21) Looking W
35.1924, -97.373