SkyPix

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

Summertime Supercellular Sunset

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On our way northwest to set up for eclipse viewing two days later, we noted a massive, heavy-precipitation supercell on radar erupting out of a pre-existing, small area of thunderstorms to the distant north, in north-central Nebraska.  Too late in the day to drive closer than about 80 miles to the storm before darkness set in, we instead found an open vantage near the town where we were staying, … [Read more...]

Lines of Inundation

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Somehow, two things conceptually as ugly as a muddy water and a chain-link fence can combine to form an abstractly interesting, uncommonly depicted, and perhaps even beautiful pattern.  I suppose, in a photographic sense, this is the equivalent of a Reuben sandwich for me:  corned beef, kraut and dressing that I wouldn't consume individually, but which taste good together in whole composition.  … [Read more...]

Salt Particle Reflections

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On a midsummer's high noon, almost precisely 24 hours before the landfall of Hurricane Dennis at this very spot, the calm water belied the tumult that soon would unfold.  Hints luked.  Beaches were strangely devoid of the usual collection of fishermen, old couples strolling the strandline, kids with sand buckets, alluring young women in flip-flops and bikinis, and the frisbee-tossing, … [Read more...]

Outflow Eruption

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Following the passage of a strong gust front, the turbulent textures of a "whale's mouth" formation offer the moving illusion of a rolling boil, a perspective made even more striking when the formation brackets a volcanic mountain in the High Plains of northeastern New Mexico,  giving the eruptive appearance a geological foundation.  Even though a superficial glance makes it appear the cloud … [Read more...]

Sedona Strike

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On my first travel day in Arizona, and after an afternoon in Petrified Forest, I wheeled over to Sedona to meet Dave Blanchard for a brief bit of desert-storm photography in the sunset hour.  This was the best of a few lightning discharges we caught from a brief, elevated storm that went up behind a late-afternoon complex, and in a most scenic setting!  My short experience of Sedona was unusual:  … [Read more...]

Sabinoso Supercell

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Intercepting a supercell in mid-August in New Mexico—why not?  While wrapping up a southwestern storm, photo and hiking trip, I noticed that a narrow, mesoscale belt of enhanced mid/upper-level northwesterly winds, southwest of a shortwave trough over the central Plains, would pass across this part of the state during the afternoon.  My first August supercell on the Great Plains did not … [Read more...]