SkyPix

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

Texas-Sized HP

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For ten hours, this legendary thunderstorm lumbered eastward across northwest Texas, extraordinarily long-lived even by supercellular standards.  I was fortunate enough to witness it in some manner from just after birth to its demise after midnight.  Though it produced a few very brief, small diurnal spin-ups (lame excuses for notches on the guns of a few over-exuberant "chasers"), the … [Read more...]

Autumn in the Northern San Juans

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This is not the sandy, red-mud-colored Cimarron River that so many of us know from northwestern and central Oklahoma, and which also drains a small part of southeastern Colorado.  Instead, it's Colorado's other, far more scenic watercourse of the same name, rife with cobbles eroded out of the northern San Juans as sharper rocks, then smoothed in tumbling through its springtime, snow-melt … [Read more...]

Dimly LIT

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Skies darkened quickly across the western Texas Panhandle landscape, as what once was a couple of supercells sent a blast of outflow air southward.  I love this kind of light with tiered shelf clouds, but as in most such instances, had little time to stay and shoot before the storm could overtake my position with fierce gusts and wind-driven hail.  This storm would chase us out of a couple more … [Read more...]

I-90 Traveler

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A supercell that erupted with brilliant grandeur over the South Dakota plains cruised steadily ESE, over and just N of I-90, for hours and hours.  Along the way, it treated a growing gaggle of tag-along observers not only to photographic opportunities and a good array of severe weather⁠—from funnel clouds and hail to severe wind⁠—but also, to a lesson in storm evolution.  After a high-based LP … [Read more...]

Sells Sunset

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Sunset skies over the southern Arizona desert emptied a bounty of desperately welcomed precipitation through a reddening, cloud-filtered canvas of light.  The rain, overdue given this late start of the summer monsoon pattern, contained several large sparks.  This one jolted something near (not at!) the top of the Coyote Mountains, a few miles northeast of Kitt Peak, which (unseen at right) also … [Read more...]

CG from the 412 Storm

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Even though the US-412 storm was weakening and getting elevated above a more stable boundary layer, it still offered one final flurry of lightning.  Fortunately I was able to capture one of these fleetingly repetitive, high-amperage sparks, plugging the storm's residual vault region into a reservoir of built-up ground charge. 7 ESE Garber OK (8 Apr 11) Looking NNE 36.3979, -97.4789 … [Read more...]