SkyPix

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

Protection Supercell at Sunset

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The supercell known as "Protection", after the name of a nearby Kansas town, showed off its knuckle-dragging strength before the sunset hour.  Then the storm  put on a dazzling reflective light and color show, here seen from just over the Oklahoma border. With the solitude of a dirt side road, the accompaniment of moist prairie winds, meadowlarks and crickets offered the ideal surround sound for … [Read more...]

Knuckle Dragger

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Growing by the minute, by means of multiple, intense updraft thrusts roaring upward from an increasingly moist source layer, this young low-precipitation (LP) supercell drifted eastward parallel to (and just north of) the Oklahoma-Kansas border.  Meanwhile we observed from a pleasant distance, enjoying whole-storm structural views across the rolling, red-dirt prairie.  Part of that marvelous … [Read more...]

Lightning-Lit Left-Mover

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This fascinating, marvelous little anticyclonic supercell sped northeastward into the deepening twilight blue, sparking and hailing, twirling laminar skirts of cloud material in a clockwise dance across the remote Palo Duro Canyon country southwest of Goodnight, TX.  A "good night" it was for those of us fortunate enough to behold the spectacle!  This was the most visually stunning left-moving … [Read more...]

Catchin’ Rays

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I had enjoyed a relaxing afternoon from the seat of a camp chair, cold Dr Pepper in hand.   Soon the fish would start biting, but before that, it was time to reel in the last rays of a marvelous day on a quiet southwest Florida beach and enjoy the deepening colors of this sunset event. Sanibel FL (16 Nov 15) Looking WSW 26.4497, -82.1434 … [Read more...]

Nebraska Prairie Whirl

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Conditionally dangerous yet ultimately harmless, the visible part of this vortex eased across the sinewy roll of the central Nebraska landscape for nearly 15 minutes, metamorphosing from tentative funnel to elephant-trunk form, this, then a vaporous mimic of dental floss.  The tornado behaved itself, avoided substantial structures and caused no casualties, serving only to relocate some small … [Read more...]

Snow Fog and Pumpjack at Sunrise

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What can be more "Okie Winter" in theme than oil-drilling machinery rising through the morning fog, above a field of snow?  At ten inches of accumulation, this was the heaviest storm total around Norman since the multiple "footers" of the late 1980s, sampled in some of the other imagery here, and made a remarkable scene beneath a reddened dawn. Norman, OK (30 Jan 0) Looking SE 35.2353, … [Read more...]