[Click Image to Enlarge] On the Big Island of Hawaii (Hawaii Island), volcanic Mauna Kea reaches 13,803 feet above sea level and 30,610 feet from its deep, mid-Pacific underwater bottom, the highest base-to-top measure of any mountain in the world. The altitude above sea level here would be the highest of any mountain in the U.S. outside Alaska, if it weren't for the fact that the tremendous … [Read more...]
Radium Sky
[Click Image to Enlarge] Even though the digital algorithm struggled with the light difference from the right side of one frame to the start of the next (instead of smoothly transitioning across them as usual), I kept this image because it nicely showed the character of an ominous and large, severe, heavy-precip supercell. As this storm churned toward the east-southeast, it produced numerous … [Read more...]
Sunset Scene South of San Angelo
Crisply textured in the clean, cool outflow air, a row of cumulus congestus towers built up into the transitional golden-orange sunset light. With clouds in the near west (behind), the sky was spotlit in its most brilliant place and way, satisfyingly ending a long chase day that otherwise didn't yield much. 2 N Christoval TX (12 May 24) Looking ESE 31.2233, -100.4891 … [Read more...]
Sunset in the Land of Enchantment
A big, bright sunset show drifted across the sky as the reddening rays illuminated old anvil material long separated from any causative updraft. Such was the picturesque denouement to a storm that fell apart after it had moved of the Caprock, following much hail on Mosquero and nice mesocyclonic cloud features near Solano. We proceeded on into Tucumcari for the night after a satisfying chase … [Read more...]
Early Roswell Supercell
Well on its way to such status, the supercell that became the "Roswell Mothership" already showed marvelous structure here. A midlevel "Ring of Saturn" formation had become attached to the updraft as a skirt of sorts, sandwiched like components of a burger by a large and organizing updraft base below, and a thick anvil with deep knuckles of inverted convection above. Indeed, it made a juicy … [Read more...]
Sunset Mosaic
Yet another fabulous wintertime sunset overswept the clean, dry, post-frontal sky over central Oklahoma. Richly textured and varying in tone, I appreciated this burst of bright color, which only lasted a minute or two before rapid fading from front to rear, but deeply accentuated areas of light and shadow on the ragged deck of cirrus. Norman OK (17 Feb 26) Looking WSW … [Read more...]
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