Zipping safely northward past a farmstead, the Goddard tornado most often either displayed no full condensation to ground, or very wispy, ghostly sub-funnels such as this. The variety of shapes and forms a tornado can take is essentially infinite, and often changes by the second, whichmakes them so marvelous to appreciate as long as they are at safe distances and not producing fatalities or … [Read more...]
Stratus Band over Mono Lake
The alternately cold to frigid layers of air hung over California's biggest alkaline puddle, as if the breathable fluid above shared the water's predicament: no outlet. A stout inversion in the temperature profile, and just enough moisture from both the lake and evaporated snow, provided a delight in subtleties of air motion, as manifest in growth and decay of stratified cloud layers. Ribbons, … [Read more...]
Cirrus Spissatus
Thick plumes of cirrus—spissatus to denote sufficient density to blur or hide the sun—stream high above cliff-forming Ordovician Bighorn dolomite in Tensleep Canyon, Wyoming. These high clouds formed in an area of strengthening upper level lift, ahead of a trough that would support intercept-worthy severe storms in northeastern Wyoming later that day. 10 ENE Ten Sleep WY (16 Jun 7) Looking … [Read more...]
Sweet Sanibel Sunrise
Standing tall as a vaporous sentinel, a small and lone cumulonimbus intercepted the rising sun's rays and reflected them brilliantly across the sky, land and gentle surf. Chances are no other similar photos exist of this marvelous convective sunrise; the beach was nearly devoid of people, save a couple of shellers. Sanibel FL (10 Nov 15) Looking NW 26.4489, -82.1424 … [Read more...]
Back to Future Sundown
Twelve years after shooting sunset slides (including one with lightning) at this location south of Tucumcari, we returned for another stunning exhibit of fluidly glowing color, this time about 90° to the left and more directly facing the sunset. As before, the newly wettened dryland air soothed the senses with its earthy freshness, amidst a chorus of western meadowlarks warbling loudly in all … [Read more...]
Tornadic Bizarre Bazaar
Truly one of the strangest supercell presentations I've ever witnessed—this storm formed in mid-morning near the center of an occluding low-level cyclone and stayed anchored near the low for several hours through the noon hour into mid-afternoon, trekking across much of northwestern Kansas into southern Nebraska, nearly 100 miles behind the dryline. It survived by ingesting a narrow tongue of … [Read more...]
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