SkyPix

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

Flint Hills HP

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Following a few hours of non-atmospheric sightseeing in northeastern Kansas, waiting for storms to form along a slow-moving, partly stalled boundary, storms erupted all along it in quick succession.  That wasn't a desired outcome in an environment that favored nice supercells if that didn't happen.  So we made the best of the mess, intercepting the first embedded supercell to roll up the line.  It … [Read more...]

Whale’s Mouth and Core

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Manifesting nicely the cliché, "History may not repeat, but it does rhyme," this turbulent underside echoes another I photographed one state to the south and nine years earlier.  The visual similarity is uncanny!  However, this time the process leading to essentially the same "whale's mouth" scene was much different:  the rear-flank downdraft of a large, outflow-dominant, heavy-precipitation … [Read more...]

Turner Falls, Frozen

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Most of the year, southern Oklahoma’s Turner Falls spills Honey Creek 77 feet down a steep slope of travertine.  Water rich in calcium carbonate has deposited the travertine atop Ordovician limestone bedrock throughout most of the Quaternary period.  The waterfall ices over like this every time there’s an extended spell of below-freezing temperatures with shots of bitter cold embedded (single … [Read more...]

Lava Fountain Arch

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In 2025 at Kilauea, the rocks went up, and the rocks went down.  At 2,000 degrees, most still molten when they hit the ground, they lit up the sky and heated the air above and around.  Tremendous pressure needs to underlie any reservoir of liquid to force it through a 50-foot-wide vent, Bernoulli-style, to heights topping 1,000 feet.  That's especially true when the liquid is heavy as stone, … [Read more...]

Late-Season Looker

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Up from late morning in Denver, on day 1 of a tour, we stabbed north across northern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming and the western Nebraska Panhandle.  Almost to the South Dakota line we landed, to an uncertain but (given development) focused target area for conditional supercell potential near a boundary in marginal moisture, and ended up with the best-structured storm of the entire weeklong … [Read more...]

High Plains Western Sunset Sky

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Doesn't it make sense that, on the opposite side of a "High Plains Eastern Sunset Sky," we get the "High Plains Western Sunset Sky" too?  Yet somehow the two skies and landscapes, shot just four minutes apart from a few dozen feet across a country two-lane, looked greatly different.  This view was more stark, ending on a treeless land that looks as if it could go on for infinity, and a sky nearly … [Read more...]