SkyPix

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

Snow Shafts in City Lights

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Just three months before, I crouched under sea grape trees in the Florida Keys for a long exposure of the distant glow of Greater Miami.  Now, 1,751 miles farther northwest, one mile higher and around 50 degrees (F) colder, a much less-distant urban glow lit up a series of small snow showers and their attendant, collective cloud field so brilliantly that only a few seconds' exposure was needed to … [Read more...]

Bridge to an Auburn Sky

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Reddish hues on the horizon just poleward of sunset silhouetted the river bridge at Savannah, their reflections blending with the bluer color of the unseen sky above to make the intermediate tone reflected off the water.  My timely position on the stern of a downriver cruise boat, a zoom lens, and steadiness bracketing (rapid-firing a series of shots from a moving vessel with the idea that at … [Read more...]

Sunset over Savannah

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From the deck of a riverboat, a sunset cruise offered a view as fine as advertised, the wintertime sun going down between high-rise buildings of downtown and midtown Savannah.  The blocky edifice just to the right of the sun is the Hilton hotel in which I stayed for a severe-storms conference; and the twin-steepled structure at left is the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, just a couple blocks … [Read more...]

Distant Urban Sky Glow

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The glow of the Miami metro area, over 50 miles away across eastern Florida Bay, penetrates a swath of night sky in the middle Keys, and reflects off the shallow and tranquil waters.  Some refer to man-made sky glow as a form of light pollution.  Millions of light sources all across the big population center produce this effect in aggregate, which in turn scatters through the atmosphere … [Read more...]

North Texas HP Stormzilla

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After the last photo, the same storm moved off to my NE and produced a downburst.  I then maneuvered the tortuous road around the E side of Lake Arrowhead, and began to penetrate what had become, once again, a thin and translucent looking rain area.  In the mere 45–55 minutes it took me relocate from rear to front of the storm, it changed character and structure dramatically!  A trip through that … [Read more...]

High-Based Supercell

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The Easter Sunday 2009 supercell, in northwest Texas, makes a fine illustration of Chuck Doswell's reminder that a storm isn't an object, but rather, a process, often with dramatic changes in appearance and behavior over its lifespan.  The thunderstorm actually cycled into and out of one supercell stage as I approached from the distance, then lost its organization and became increasingly flat and … [Read more...]