SkyPix

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

Severe Uncertainty

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What previously had been a high-based, somewhat ragged, outflow-surfing supercell, in and north of the Judith Range, then tightly rotating with a funnel, then high-based again, encountered a boundary with backed flow and slightly greater moisture. The storm accordingly, albeit temporarily, wrapped up an intense low-level mesocyclone, represented visually in this wide-angle view by the ragged, … [Read more...]

Ramrod Reflections

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The swimming hole at the north end of Ramrod Key has relatively sheltered water for reflective views, thanks to some surrounding mangroves and the structure of the nearby Florida Bay bathymetry. When not occupied by bloodsucking insects or drunk people, it is a quiet, relatively secluded area and good place to observe sunsets in the lower Keys. Briefly, this was no exception. For just a minute … [Read more...]

Florida Green Flash

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This was the first time I saw (or managed to shoot) the elusive "green flash", following a Gulf of Mexico sunset. I say "following", because the sun is below the horizon; its light has been bent toward green/blue, as if through a prism, and bounced off an inversion to reach the eye and lens in a very fleeting manner. Read more about this fascinating phenomenon in my post on the second such … [Read more...]

Florida Orange

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It's not a fruit, but it's orange and in Florida!  While returning from a trip to the Shark Valley observation area, sunset light brilliantly illuminated a lone towering cumulus.  Unlike typical mid-November conditions here, a muggy, maritime/tropical air mass had remained in place well into autumn; indeed we had arrived in southern Florida to more summer-typical daily multicell storms … [Read more...]

Evening Sky Painting

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Central Oklahoma is famous among weather and photography enthusiasts (and especially weather-photography enthusiasts!) for its colorful sunset skies, and this was certainly no exception.  The sun and our atmosphere collaborated for just a few minutes on painting a marvelous fluid rendering of intermingled orange and blue tones, and it was up to this photographer to both capture and duly … [Read more...]

Mature Chickasha Tornado

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After an early multiple-vortex stage, the "Chickasha" tornado consolidated and organized into a persistent, nearly steady-state, barrel-shaped single vortex, ominously churning across the rolling country southwest of Oklahoma City.  Meanwhile, the great depth and volume of the parent supercell, above a low-cloud deck, cast a broad shadow dark as evening across the afternoon countryside, causing … [Read more...]