Newest Posts: SkyPix by Roger Edwards

Hampton Tornado after I-80

2019-01-20 By Roger Edwards

The Hampton tornado temporarily became invisible in rain right after crossing the Interstate, then revealed itself again as a somewhat shrunken but still robust-looking "fat stovepipe" form. Although it continued to narrow gradually and retreat northward, we didn't have much more time to watch or photograph it. The heavy rain falling on me while shooting this tornado started to include painful … [Read more...]

Flood in the Crosstimbers

2019-01-20 By Roger Edwards

Prodigious rains in May 2015—in this case over two feet at my gauge upstream—sent Lake Thunderbird well out of its usual bounds and into surrounding crosstimbers country, drowning scores of gophers, voles, ticks, and chiggers in the process. Moreover, huge flash floods during that episode ran into the already-swollen lake faster than all possible outlets could drain it, rendering muddy, red … [Read more...]

Diffused Sun

2019-01-20 By Roger Edwards

A fog-dimmed solar globe rises beyond seed heads of ornamental grasses at the National Weather Center. This was a fine morning for shooting fog related images around the new facility in the dense but shallow deck. A brisk breeze blew, but the resulting waving grass didn't hinder photography of its silhouettes, thanks to the large f-stop and fast shutter speed compelled by metering around the … [Read more...]

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...]