SkyPix

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

Foggy Forest, Smugglers Notch

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Smugglers Notch is a pass through the northern Green Mountains subprovince of the Appalachians, through which illicit trade with Canada was common from the time of the British-American conflicts through early 20th-century Prohibition.  Days like this surely helped to cover such activities, to the extent smugglers were willing to undertake the route in wet, slippery conditions.  Snow was falling at … [Read more...]

Fall-18 Sunrise Tree Sequence 1

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[Part 1 of 3]  The multi-year series of fall and winter sunrises, shot opportunistically from this spot featuring the "Sunrise Tree", continues.  A beautiful dawn unfolded across the eastern sky, and I barely got here in time to experience and photograph it—so glad and thankful to have done so!  This sunrise scene began with still-reddened middle/upper-tropospheric clouds beneath brighter, … [Read more...]

Fall-18 Sunrise Tree Sequence 2

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[Part 2 of 3]  As the wondrous dawn lost its redder hues, but expanded yellows and oranges across a more vertically aligned domain around the Sunrise Tree, I aligned the camera accordingly.  It wasn't until later that I noticed a fortuitous and fortunate aspect of this composition:  the standing waves that formed in the middle/upper-level cloud deck, beyond the top of the tree, give the abstract … [Read more...]

Fall-18 Sunrise Tree Sequence 3

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[Part 3 of 3]  In the final minutes before the beautiful sunrise colors faded, those rippled middle/upper-level cloud waves from the previous shot wafted off to the northeast (left), and more vertically oriented waviness began to appear in the warmly sunlit sky.  In fact, looking carefully at the uppermost right of the view, a vertical curl of a condensed breaking wave appears, probably from … [Read more...]

Never the Same (Part 2)

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[Part 2 of 2]  The same air that was in a supercell 20 minutes ago is now long gone, much of it hurled into the prevailing upper level winds as anvil material, some condensed into rain and hail that pounds the land below.  All the while, the storm pulsates, expands and/or contracts, strengthens and weakens, still dependent on the moisture, temperature, wind speed and wind direction of the … [Read more...]

Never the Same (Part 1)

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[Part 1 of 2]  This is the first of two images (from Provia slide film) of a single southwest Oklahoma supercell about 15 minutes apart.  Here, two wall clouds can be seen: the one at middle rear beneath an older, occluded mesocyclone (that had produced a brief tornado while we were navigating through town, unable to photograph it), the newer one at nearer right, never tornadic, with less … [Read more...]