SkyPix

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

Frozen Rain

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This isn't liquid water, but instead, ice drops. A brief, quick shot of rain swept over the area in sub-freezing temperatures, leaving the large drops frozen to my windshield exactly as they landed. Appropriately enough, this scene occurred in the mostly empty National Weather Center parking lot, itself was a slippery rink of icy glaze upon which I deliberately spun the vehicle a bit to hone … [Read more...]

Altostratus Stack

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Altostratus is best appreciated when one unbiases its lackluster reputation as gray, dull, bland and ordinary, and looks deeper into the scene. In certain settings, it is powerfully, grimly beautiful, as it was here for me, shooting this film slide. The somber mood evoked by the solitary sea stack is intensified by the slate-like blue-gray of dense altostratus over water. Almost a visual … [Read more...]

Cirrocumulus Floccus

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A field of floccus, more ragged with light virga in front, more dense with less virga in rear, moved high over the log-festooned Hoh River and adjoining portions of Olympic National Park. The term floccus stands for tufts of sheep wool, which the formations in this slide resembled. 25 ESE Forks WA (19 Jul 3) Looking ESE 47.8639, -123.918 … [Read more...]

Stubble Trouble

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The pounded remains of the prior year's corn stubble also made a fine metaphor for this scenic but weatherbeaten-looking storm. Previously a high-based but heavy-precipitation supercell, its near-forward flank region was hammered by a merging left-mover about an hour before. This, combined with the storm's own outflow, cut off any warm, moist, surface-based inflow air, rendering what was … [Read more...]

Golden Altocumulus and Surf

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Another Olympic Peninsula day eased toward an end with golden reflections in surf of golden diffractions in sky. With all the scales and forms of fluid motion at work here, a photographer is guaranteed to capture a unique image with every click of the shutter. Sky scenes change by the minute on the Washington coast, affirmed by a fantastic redder sunset that soon followed. 1 W Mora WA (14 … [Read more...]

Floodgates Open

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The third 100-year flood since 1947 sent Lake Texoma over its spillway, at the same time these separate floodgates were opened full throttle. This moving water was deeper than a four-story building and loud, emitting a heavy, thunderous rumble that could be heard in the air and felt in the ground below for hundreds of feet around. Enough water blasted through the dam to fill more than three … [Read more...]