SkyPix

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

High Plains Sunset, Clayton

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A series of somewhat short-lived supercells had formed and gone, leaving behind abundant, highly varying low- and middle-level convective cloud residue as a foil for yet another beautiful High Plains sunset, here shown through the narrow view field of a deep zoom.  This was a wonderful way to end an uncommon July chase day in northeastern New Mexico and extreme southern Colorado.  Standing just a … [Read more...]

Trinidad Supercell from Johnson Mesa

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The gently rolling shortgrass prairie of western Johnson Mesa, in northernmost New Mexico, is a great vantage for supercells that fire in the Sangre de Cristos just west of Trinidad and roll east or east-southeast, as often happens in late spring to early summer.  This well-structured storm, dark and brooding under shadow of its own anvil and some high clouds to the southwest, cut a spectacular … [Read more...]

Heavenly Supercell

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A supercell, rolling along the Colorado/New Mexico line out of the Trinidad area, swirls past the front door of the 1897 St. Johns Methodist Episcopal Church, from where I shot a monsoonal storm just four years before. The clouds poured down water, the heavens resounded with thunder; your arrows flashed back and forth. Your thunder was heard in the whirlwind, your lightning lit up the world; the … [Read more...]

Cascading Cool Water

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Whenever you have had enough of the summer heat after weeks and weeks, here's a place to go, whether in person or in the imagination.  Get relief in the sound, smell and feel as the cool spray of a northern New England waterfall flies off the rocks and breezes past. 2 NE Colebrook NH (28 Sep 22) Looking ESE 44.9194, -71.4635 … [Read more...]

Spinning Southeast through Haze

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A very moist boundary layer and general, ambient haze in the warm sector made for difficult spotting for most of this supercell's lifespan, except when very close to the base.  That was challenging, since the storm moved relatively fast, and southeastward, at an awkward angle with respect to the road network it crossed.  Nonetheless, we managed a few decent views and one pretty good one here near … [Read more...]

Foggy Bottoms and Bridge

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A stratus deck with no well-defined base covered most of the downtown skyscrapers and the top part of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, a Santiago Calatrava-designed masterpiece spanning the Trinity River bottoms, off the west edge of downtown Dallas.  The bridge has won several architectural and engineering awards.  The 400-foot cable-support arch also can be seen, a few years after completion, in a … [Read more...]