Newest Posts: SkyPix by Roger Edwards

Weather Center in Fog

2019-01-20 By Roger Edwards

Fog enshrouds the National Weather Center facility, as seen from the north, within just a little over a year after construction finished. A closer view of the building just a few minutes before yielded this peculiar scene. Norman OK (9 Nov 7) Looking S 35.1825, -97.44 … [Read more...]

Window of the Sun

2019-01-20 By Roger Edwards

Where glare normally would obliterate such a scene, a foggy morning muted the sun's brilliance just enough to keep the orb defined, even in its reflection off one of the National Weather Center's windows. Norman OK (9 Nov 7) Looking ESE 35.182, -97.4398 … [Read more...]

Reserved Flooding

2019-01-20 By Roger Edwards

Unless it was a handicapped-accessible boat, no vehicle would be parking in front of this shot-up sign for many more days, until Lake Thunderbird's high waters receded. The record May 2015 rainfall in Norman created and maintained this condition, with nearly ten inches of rain in the prior week, and over two feet for the month at my house located in this reservoir's watershed.Norman OK (10 May … [Read more...]

Last Tornadic Gasp

2019-01-17 By Roger Edwards

Not only was the Chugwater tornado by now cut off from the originally supportive storm inflow, the supercell itself was moving into cooler and more stable air left behind by earlier storms that we had witnessed to the east. This very brief, worm-like dissipation stage would be the last tornado action from this storm, though the supercell would persist in a weakened state for another hour or so. … [Read more...]

High Plains River

2019-01-17 By Roger Edwards

A loop of the Niobrara River nourishes a narrow strip of Great Plains wetlands in the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, an oasis in the otherwise vast stretch of semiarid shortgrass prairie near the Wyoming line. The river arises not in the mountains but with (mostly) dry washes in Wyoming, near Lusk. All of its water comes from the Plains themselves, mainly snowmelt and groundwater, but with … [Read more...]

Arriba!

2019-01-17 By Roger Edwards

The same supercell that had produced the wildly rotating but rather flat-bottomed Genoa wall cloud merged with a smaller storm ahead of it, quickly developing another mesocyclone in an inflow notch (center), with a surging precipitation area to its south (left). Before that hook of rain and hail cut off our view of the cloud-base area, it offered a modestly yet obviously rotating wall cloud … [Read more...]