Sunset light cast aglow a field of middle/upper-tropospheric convective clouds and their cirriform effluent, to dazzling effect. Among the lit components: some "thunderless mammatus" clouds, which were more ghostly and wispy than the well-defined forms we often see accompanying intense, deep storms. Within a few minutes, the light and fluid flow would yield a very different and equally … [Read more...]
Foggy Steam Plumes
As of when I'm posting this page in early March 2022, this week marks the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park, signed into official recognition with the quill pen of President U.S. Grant. Yellowstone was the first national park in the United States, and in the world. The park is so vast in size and variety that no one scene adequately encapsulates its beauty and scope. Still, this … [Read more...]
The Mean and Nasty Unknown
A mesocyclone to my immediate west was dying fast, being undercut by rear-flank outflow after producing a major, intense tornado (which I barely could make out through wrapping rain, but heard quite well). Meanwhile, to my north, a new mesocyclone cranked up fast and ferociously, its wall cloud rotating rapidly and likewise deeply wrapping precipitation. No tornadoes were reported in the open … [Read more...]
Willow Tornado Zoom
Before completely wrapping in rain and dissipating, the Willow tornado's condensation cone thickened, briefly presenting decent contrast through the rain. It also made a good memory for non-meteorological reasons. Some fathers take their daughters to "daddy-daughter dances". I took mine on a daddy-daughter dancing-tornado intercept, and this was the second of three we would see on the … [Read more...]
Tilted, Tapered Cone
After two supercells merged to assume a big bell shape, the resulting combined storm produced a very brief, anticyclonic tornado on its south flank, while the main mesocyclone wrapped in rain, occluded and dissipated. The second mesocyclone following the merger was more productive, spawning two tornadoes, one of which I was able to shoot decently. Here, the early stages of that vortex can be … [Read more...]
Cloud-Streaked Sunset
Sheets, patches and flecks of high clouds blaze with the reddened rays of the day's last sunshine. The varieties of shape, texture, hue and form in sunlit clouds is endless, meaning a unique visual blessing to be appreciated with every colorful sunset sky. Norman OK (30 Jan 12) Looking WSW 35.1822, -97.4411 … [Read more...]
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