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
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
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...]
Rippled Sunrise
Undulations in high cirrus crisscrossed the sunrise skies, on a warm and pleasant late-spring morning over central Oklahoma. This view spans the northeastern vista from the rooftop observation deck of the National Weather Center in Norman, during its fourth year open. Notice the similarities and differences between this and a dazzling "radial sunrise" seen from another part of the same facility, … [Read more...]
Spotlit Downburst
A persistent hole in the outflow-lifted clouds, ahead of a broken squall line, allowed sunshine to spotlight an area of rugged hills and rain above, between Bullhead City and Kingman, as a locally severe downburst descended into its valleys and outward across the desert floor. The shafts of sunlight shifted upward off the terrain and more into the core, as the outflow clouds evolved and locally … [Read more...]
Evening at Anaehoomalu Beach
After a "voggy" sunset, it was time to time-expose the warm, tropical Pacific waters lapping against lava. Fortunately, unlike videos, photographs aren't accompanied by contemporaneous sound; for there was a loud luau booming across the bay from a nearby resort. Would you have guessed based on the scene alone? Being big-city born and raised, the noise was rather easy to block out and prevent … [Read more...]
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