SkyPix

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

Crown of Glow

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This was an evening full of pleasant visual surprises, capped (no pun intended) by this last magical touch of sunset glow atop towering cumulus. I have always loved the contrast in hue between the warm pastels of the last rays of the sun, the dimming blues of the background sky, and the muted grays in convective towers beneath. A series of these towers extended southwestward along a dryline from a … [Read more...]

Side Cascade, Gljufurarfoss

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Gljúfurárfoss tumbles off the same cliffside as the better-known Seljalandsfoss, and a few hundred yards away.  This isn’t even its main falls, which tumble into a hidden rock chute and slot canyon, but a wondrous little side discharge framed by lush vegetation and adding to the overall spillage.  Iceland contains countless many such watery marvels! 1 N Seljaland, Iceland (16 Aug 14) Looking … [Read more...]

Pileus Capping Overshoot

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This distant but splendid specimen of double-layered pileus formed atop an explosively convective, overshooting flanking tower for a heavy-precipitation (HP) supercell in northeastern Oklahoma.  Behind the big tower, and above the anvil, we can see a small segment of another overshooting top.  Knuckle clouds roll under the anvil on both sides of the big tower.  This whole scene just before sunset … [Read more...]

The North Faces

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Woods of the Western Crosstimbers stood in a forlorn and shadowy beauty, in the final flurries of a New Years Day snow dump.  Riding a north wind, some of the very wet, sticky snow accumulated on the sides of the trees, as well as atop and beneath.  At the bottom of the snow lay a soaked layer that dripped when shoveled, while even the top parts oozed water when squeezed—testament to both ground … [Read more...]

A Supercell’s Sunset Dawn

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This cumulonimbus had a narrow updraft and forward-flank core area,  opaque enough to see the subtle refracted reds of sunset through both the updraft tower and precip core at right. But it was merging with a larger cell just to its north (right side, out of picture); and the combined storm would rapidly wind up into a tornado-producing supercell after dark.  Just when I thought I was taking in … [Read more...]

Mammatus Field over Wheat Field

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Ripening wheat waved in the inflow of a supercell whose updraft whirled eruptively to my back.  The storm pumped out an extensive anvil with rings of mammatus, and commanded due attention to its rotating base, except for a few moments now and then, when an observer was compelled to look around and appreciate the entire panorama of cloud forms. 6 NW Ryus KS (19 Jun 7) Looking SE 37.5618, … [Read more...]