SkyPix

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

Classic Oklahoma Tornado

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After a spectacular pre-tornadic display of storm structure, the mature Dover tornado passed just over a mile to my south.  It destroyed a barn and several stands of trees during this stage; pieces of them were swirling around in the debris fan.  No rain or hail fell at my location during the tornado's passage from southwest thru southeast.  Unlike in many tornadic supercells, the precipitation … [Read more...]

Pine Ridge Stormscape

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We hadn't expected much this day, storm-wise.  Still, somehow, severe thunderstorms erupted in the rolling grasslands of the Wyoming-Nebraska border. That high-based activity shot SE across the Nebraska Panhandle and "gusted out" fast, gushing a dense current of cold outflow across the countryside in what seemed to be a most unhappy ending to our pursuit of stormy enrichment.  Many observers would … [Read more...]

Chugwater Tornado: Wide View

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I quickly popped on the wide-angle lens for some more all-encompassing views of the Chugwater tornado, the surrounding classic supercell, and the rolling Wyoming countryside carpeted in green wheat.  Despite the duly ominous rumblings of the tornadic supercell to our west, and its motion toward and slightly to the left of us, no lightning was striking nearby, no hail falling (yet).  Western … [Read more...]

Flowing Furnace

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Oozing across a young but cooled lava flow, a fresh breakout of Kilauea "61g" occupies the gravitational path of least resistance in its seemingly methodical, deliberate push seaward, rendering to flame and ash one stick stuck in its way.  On larger scales, the same process has removed forests and subdivisions all across the Kalapana area, since the East Rift Zone of Kilauea started its current … [Read more...]

The Snoyota

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By the time I took my camera to this Camry, it had been sitting inert for over 24 hours during and after a blizzard, redirecting snow away from its base through ground-level obstacle flows.  The lopsided accumulation on its roof came from a snow-filled airflow stream over that portion of the shopping center at upper left, curving downward and rightward to an nearly perpendicular stream across the … [Read more...]

Mesa Country Zapper

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In New Mexico storms, the action can get wild and intense!  I was glad to be sitting ringside, instead of in the ring getting pummeled.  After the storm became very active electrically, I grabbed the camera sporting the zoom lens to capture some of the discharges; this attempt worked.  This supercell flung frequent, bright, hot lightning strikes, along with severe outflow and hail.  The lower … [Read more...]