SkyPix

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

Stratocumulus Congestus

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A peculiar mound of dense convection welled up in seemingly boiling fashion, leading to a doming effect in an otherwise benign field of stratocumulus.  The upward motion in this dome was strong enough that a moat of subsidence (and resultant clearing) partially encircled it, showing up best on the left and upper sides.  Although I don't know of any such "official" nomenclature combination yet, the … [Read more...]

Reflections from Fisherman’s Point

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After a spate of bad news on various levels, one desires reassurance, solace and justifications for joy.  Respectfully and humbly sought, such reasons are made available in many forms to the willing and attentive—prayers answered not through deafening vocals from aloft that echo throughout the cosmos, but instead through more deeply personalized, graceful assurances and a soothing spiritual … [Read more...]

Southern Kansas Fuzznado

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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

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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

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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...]