SkyPix

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

Miami’s Twilight Reflections

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Gentle ripples on the surface of Biscayne Bay broke the reflected evening skyline of Brickell Avenue into ever-changing bands and shifting columns, never offering precisely the same scene from any given fraction of a second to the next. Miami FL (28 Nov 11) Looking N 25.7464, -80.1933 … [Read more...]

Legs of Lightning

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This was a "striking" event in more than one meaning.  Amazing, banded cloud forms transited the night sky amidst a profusion of in-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning, all striking me as a profoundly awesome process to behold, and one that would continue for many more minutes. 6 W Little Axe OK (15 Jul 16) Looking NNE 35.23, -97.3016 … [Read more...]

Sundown Grooming

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When I've found myself located between storms for a Great Plains sunset, a marvelous experience has unfolded.  This was no exception.  Under a tumultuously colorful sky crowned by the anvil of a supercell well to our SW, the good folks of Groom bid goodbye to another springtime day. 8 ESE Groom TX (25 May 10) Looking WNW 35.1824, -100.972 … [Read more...]

Updraft: Historic OKC Hailstorm

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We thought it was too marginal of a chase day to mess with.  That was mistaken.  Several of us veteran chasers sat around the table at a lunch buffet, swapping stories of storms of yore and packing away piles of vittles, when a storm blew up fast on an old boundary NW of Oklahoma City.  Tapping the boundary's vorticity reservoir and turning sharply rightward, it overcame many seeming weaknesses of … [Read more...]

Layers over Lightning

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Wild skies kept wafting past, as a series of cores in a slow-moving storm complex flung electricity between cloud and ground.  All the while, surrounding sky flickered in a high-voltage disco strobe, a throbbing dance of light, arrhythmic pulsations:  left, right, near and yonder, to the music of differential airflow.  Shortly following this shot, the onset of light rain signaled the time to pack … [Read more...]

Sun in Cirrus?

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We holed up in a wildlife blind, awaiting the evening return of sandhill cranes to their roosting haven on the Platte River.  As they did, a fascinating visual effect unfolded, thanks to the ever-changing Great Plains sky, impending sunset and a ribbon of intervening cirrus clouds.  Both to the eye and to the camera sensor, the sun gave the illusion of dropping through the cirrus deck instead of … [Read more...]