SkyPix

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

Marymere Falls, Olympic Mountains

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Delicately and thinly tumbling Falls Creek out of the Olympic Mountains in a pattern resembling a narrow-necked bottle, Marymere Falls makes a serene and fairly accessible place to spend some of a summer afternoon in the Northwestern rain forest.  The presence of tossed logs and a boulder tells a different story:  one far more dangerous, of thunderous and powerful torrents in times of flood. 4 SW … [Read more...]

First Fall Snow, San Juans

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Freshly blanketed in the season's first snow by a fall squall, the northwestern San Juans north of Telluride receive a final dusting of the day from a deck of trailing nimbostratus.  That season, the first to fall was the last to melt!  This snow would be buried under progressively deeper accumulations the next day, and in succeeding weeks, through the remainder of the cold season, not to see … [Read more...]

Dramatic Sky in the San Juans

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One of the most dramatic and interesting skies I've ever seen, outside Great Plains supercells, came in a casual jaunt from our mountain rental to experience an approaching squall line.  The band of storms roared through the northern San Juan Mountains and surrounding countryside, its main core of rain, hail and wind having not even arrived yet, when its broadly swirling, terrain-redirected … [Read more...]

Fall Squall in the San Juans

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After witnessing a dramatic mountain sky, we plunged in, pulled off, and let a squall line blasted past our location, with lightning, small hail and rain in lower elevations, and snow in the higher reaches of the San Juans.  Strong outflow blew past us as well, evident in the bending of the tree branches.  This thunderstorm complex would deposit the season's first snowfall upon the previously bare … [Read more...]

Stack in Sun and Fog

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What a magical moment this was.  On an otherwise drab, stereotypically dreary Olympic Coast day, overlying cirrostratus opened up, before the distant low-level stratus advected overhead with a beauty all its own.  Sunshine through the gap illuminated the intermixing fresh and salt waters of the Quillayute River's estuary and the adjoining Pacific Ocean, while a flock of pelicans landed and noisily … [Read more...]

Scottsbluff Bow: South Side

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[Part 3 of 3]  From the same spot as the previous two photographs, the tiered cloud shelves of the south end of the bow presented themselves in different light than the middle and north parts, without quite as much deep-convective cloud material over them, or as much heavy precipitation behind.  Instead, the south edge, at left, shoved a nice little haboob of dust along its way, well-removed from … [Read more...]