Howling winds at my back, gusts exceeding 60 mph with blowing snow, made this scene even colder than it looks. I had to wait until a brief interlude between the big gusts to shoot steadily. Norman was in the throes of a full-fledged blizzard, an uncommon but precedented event in these parts. Such unseemly conditions certainly ruled out a leisurely afternoon of fishing or paddling a canoe. At … [Read more...]
Sunrise Cirrus Reflective
Solitary and graceful, a patch of cirrus catches rays of Tang-powder orange, then sends the sweet hue on its way to the water's surface to be reflected into the lens and digitized for ultimate display on your screen. Cool, calm and serene, the dawn was the epitome of a pleasant autumn morning. Norman OK (2 Oct 15) looking E 35.2076, -97.3758 … [Read more...]
The “Liberty’s Crown” Storm
A weakening, outflow-dominant supercell churned SSE toward us as we observed from the NW outskirts of Pampa, hoping for some good lightning viewing and photography. Instead, we got one of the most peculiar cloud arrangements I've witnessed around a storm—a midlevel skirt of radial spikes, reminiscent of the crown of the Statue of Liberty, and with enough night light to help it take its own … [Read more...]
Velkommen
Velkommen...til oversvømmelsen! Story City's annual Scandinavian festival got cut short by a Sunday flood that divided the town in two, overtopping its main road (Broad Street) near the Skunk River. Fortunately for the town, the waters fell again the next day and no homes got flooded. The story elsewhere in Iowa was more bleak, however; these floodwaters joined those from other streams to form … [Read more...]
Twilight
Between sunset and nightfall passes the period known as twilight, a period of illumination long subject to rumination by poets and romantics the world over. Its morning counterpart has the same name. Twilight has varying stages, the first ending with civil dusk (sun 6° under horizon). Even with the sun well below the horizon, sunlight is be scattered through the upper atmosphere to … [Read more...]
Super Blood Harvest Moon Tetrad
My admittedly ridiculous title combines the best (or worst!) of many nicknames for the uncommon juxtaposition of a so-called "super moon" (in its closest orbital segment to Earth), "blood moon" (red light refracted through Earth's atmosphere then reflected off the lunar surface), tetrad (fourth straight lunar eclipse that has been total), and harvest moon (closest full moon to the autumnal … [Read more...]
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