Looking westbound at this menacingly beautiful sky, travelers wisely should choose to turn around and find shelter to the east again until the storm passes. This tempestuous rolling blockade was loaded with severe wind, lightning, heavy rain, and sporadic hail. In an unusually wet year, and especially mid June following wildflower season, the lush greenery of northwest Texas' Permian redbed … [Read more...]
Eruption on the Prairie
What a splendid day. Knowing storms wouldn't be moving too fast, and that we could get back east of the dryline fairly quickly, we awaited development to our east, by hanging out in Badlands National Park. After hiking, doing photography and eating lunch at the nice restaurant there, we saw a line of storm towers erupt as if on cue. One of them grew very large, very fast. This storm … [Read more...]
Forested Waterfalls in Central Oklahoma
When thinking of waterfalls, what places come to mind? Certainly, among many, one considers the beautiful cascades of Iceland, Hawaii, Yellowstone, other places in the Rockies and across the West, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes, or Appalachian New England. How about Norman? Right here in central Oklahoma, I've found a wonderful, secluded spot on private land to which I have permissible … [Read more...]
Night Like Day: Tornado and Lightning
Following the unseen dissipation stage of the Minneola "Kansas Sunset" tornado, this larger vortex formed northeast of Ford and trucked along deeper into the dark of night, with a maximum surveyed width of 875 yards. Fortunately it missed population centers. Despite the late hour, this photo's brightness can be attributed to high ISO offsetting short exposure time, with lightning as an … [Read more...]
Tilted Trees Abstraction
Flooding of Lake Thunderbird, east of Norman, offered both this arboreal abstraction and a rather unsanitary one. Water rising into uncommon places presents the dichotomy of muddy, often polluted messes with hazards to people, and peculiar photographic compositions to depict the flooding in ways seldom seen otherwise.2 NW Little Axe OK (10 May 15) Looking ESE 35.2483, -97.2379 … [Read more...]
Supercell Surfing Supercell
This wild formation had origins worthy of a swashbuckling meteorological adventure tale. A young, small supercell formed as a surface-based storm and quickly began rotating, in the moist, helicity-enhanced inflow region of a larger, older, established supercell. The newer storm produced some severe hail as it merged northward into the forward flank of the older one, while an unrelated outflow … [Read more...]
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