A placid, sporadically showery morning in the lower Keys was decorated by towering cumulus clouds and a faint rainbow segment, the sky textured by a deck of smoke whose origin I never learned, at the top of the boundary layer —all of it mirrored marvelously in the rippled tidewaters of Pine Channel. The gentle wave action reflected the highest convective cloud tops in such as way that they … [Read more...]
Silhouetted Stratus over a Butte
Barely clearing a southwest Texas butte "one dark and windy day", this narrow ribbon of stratus behind a thunderstorm complex was silhouetted and partially underlit by a low sun. A dark altostratus deck loomed above, "up a cloudy draw." As I beheld this scene, that old Johnny Cash tune spontaneously came back to life in my mind, right in the moment and on the spot. Eerily similar to how … [Read more...]
Super Supercell Sunset
This had been a difficult storm intercept day: watching a couple of promising looking supercells die, dodging an extremely intense bow echo, and getting caught in a separate, nasty core of heavy rain, hail and damaging wind that made us feel as if we were stuck in front of a giant fire hose. We let the "fire hose" pass over both us and the nearby town of Mineral Wells, then on a whim and a … [Read more...]
Turquoise Fort Portals
The same Caribbean-blue waters that offer such a beautiful tonal contrast through Fort Jefferson's embrasures also will contribute to its ultimate, if gradual, crumble to ruin, without major measures of maintenance. Hurricanes and other storms fueled by the high oceanic heat content of the nearby Gulf and Caribbean will wear the structure down through wind, waves, salt spray, and the effective … [Read more...]
Sunset Sky off Southwest Florida
We started the daylight hours with cool, windswept, dry-land horizons in Oklahoma, and ended it here, admiring the final sunlight light illuminating high clouds on an unobstructed view far out across the eastern Gulf of Mexico. This was a mighty welcomed direction of travel for November, I must declare. Bonita Springs FL (6 Nov 15) Looking WSW 26.3322, -81.8466 … [Read more...]
Not a Tornado!
At the time I shot this slide, I remarked on video that this cloud might be reported wrongly as a tornado. Not 5 minutes later, it happened: A tornado warning came over my weather radio for its location eastward, based on "several spotter reports of a tornado." It was actually a large, low-hanging, non-rotating chunk of cloud material along an inflow/outflow interface in the distance, … [Read more...]
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