SkyPix

A digital photographic storybook of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards.

Fine Evening on Railay Beach

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Low tide, a young crescent moon, and sunset-splashed twilight surrounded a massive limestone stack on this southern Thailand beach, accessible only by boat or strenuous hike.  I chose “boat.”  Different vibes cover the tropics, my kind: peaceful, easy and present, smooth and warm as the moist sea breezes of low latitudes.  Jimmy Buffett had that much right, but it’s better experienced and enjoyed … [Read more...]

Snowy Night Light

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Four inches of wet snow fell in a northeast wind, coating that side of some of the trees, while providing a fitting backdrop for Christmas lights that I still had up in a few of our trees.  In these parts, most snow occurs with winds from the east, northeast or north, as those directions signal neutral to cold advection near the surface, north of a front, with warm (and moist) advection common … [Read more...]

Malay Thai Pyrocumulus

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This humble aerial peek into a hazy tropical boundary layer offers a ton of meteorology to ponder.  Flying northward over the western Gulf of Thailand, the westernmost arm of the Pacific, the first thing attracting attention could be the plume of smoke and cumuliform cloud material, shearing northward from a fire just inland from the east coast of the Malay Peninsula.  The pyro plume somewhat … [Read more...]

Summit Sunrise

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Sometimes, sleep trouble turns beneficial.  For the second time this cool season, I was awake unexpectedly early at a conference hotel, witnessing something seldom seen in my normal circadian skew:  sunrise.  It was a grand one, too, and a blessing to behold.  What a splendid way to kick off the National Storm Chaser Summit, at which I was a speaker this year! Overland Park KS (14 Feb 25) Looking … [Read more...]

Dense Core past Turbines

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Shortly before evolving into a supercell, a multicell storm dumped several heavy cores of rain (and probably hail) on parts of northeastern Colorado near Sterling.  From this vantage, near Fleming, one particularly dense core plunged earthward behind two wind turbines that framed it nicely.  These wind turbines on the Great Plains can be quite the unnatural eyesore at times, aside from the birds … [Read more...]