SkyPix

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

Smoke on the Water

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Welcome to the first and rarest juxtaposition of two SkyPix categories:  Burnscapes and Water Works.  If this looks like a grim scene, it was.  Smoke from several devastating regional and local wildfires, mixed with blowing dust raised off west Texas and New Mexico by the same high winds that fanned the flames, finally settled into the near-sunset inversion layer over Lake Thunderbird.  Itself … [Read more...]

Sunset of the Southern Plains

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Flaming brilliance brightened the west aloft for just a few minutes one late fall evening, not just over central Oklahoma, but much of the southern Plains, thanks to an extensive deck of richly textured, variably thick cirrus.  These moments are the little snacks of priceless sky time that satisfy the appreciative yet hungry observer riding the long timeline from smorgasbord to smorgasbord on the … [Read more...]

Requiem for Homestead and Storm

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Moving into stable air mostly not of its own making, a dying storm recedes southeastward, with a double rainbow above a long-abandoned High Plains homestead.  Here stopped to say goodbye to a storm that nearly became a sustained supercell, but couldn't, await another storm that was becoming supercellular to the west-northwest, and pay respects to a culture and generation as long gone as the house … [Read more...]

3 Contrails Crossing

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No, this isn't some bizarre, psychedelic rendition of the British Union Jack.  Instead, here was a rare confluence of three crossing contrails, but in sunset light and superimposed at one spot.  Perhaps they weren't so linked when the last was created, but the contrails vary in age, from the oldest, fattest and most widely dispersed (upper left to lower right) to the youngest, narrowest and least … [Read more...]

Morning on Rippled Lake

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Soon after sunrise, the night’s shadow still lingered on the far-shore hillside, with light breaking through overhead clouds to reach the water and illuminate ghostly columns of “sea fog” gracefully slow-dancing across the surface.  A passing boat sent out linear ripples that acted not to disrupt, but instead enhance the scene to a level of marvelous uniqueness. 3 SE Braggs OK (31 Oct 25) Looking … [Read more...]

Dance of Tornadoes

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A "roaring bowl" became somewhat rain-wrapped temporarily, extending into this view, when a satellite tornado formed along the mesocyclone/rear-flank-downdraft interface northwest of the main tornado.  That's the position I've seen all five of my satellite tornadoes originate:  somewhere northwest or north of the main tornado, and all on major outbreak days.  The satellite vortex dissipated within … [Read more...]