SkyPix

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

Rays through Rain Shafts

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Tinged with a hint of a champagne hue, crepuscular rays from the late afternoon sun shine through vertical shafts of rainfall from a high-based thunderstorm.  The Colorado Front Range foothills, rendered as ghostly silhouettes by a combination of the foreground light and visual diffusion through rain, recede as they climb in height into the distance. 2 NW Broomfield CO (19 Jul 9) Looking … [Read more...]

Bronze Glow

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Newly arrived from somewhere westward over the Gulf of Mexico, a dense swath of cirrostratus threatened to rob me of a fine Florida Bay sunset with a line of towering cumulus clouds as foreground.  Then, as if benevolently, some distant and unseen thinness in the obscuration allowed warm tones into the visible sky, diffused smoothly across the high clouds, all lending a wonderfully subtle, pastel … [Read more...]

Austrian Rain

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Here's an uncommonly photographed version of common vista and frequent situation.  The Hohensalzburg fortress offers all the classically sweeping views of the city of Salzburg, which is a rainy place.  A thunderstorm with heavy rain and cool outflow moved overhead while we were in the upper part of the structure, offering this placid perspective on a fine Austrian city. Salzburg, Austria (22 … [Read more...]

High Plains Hailer

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Awkwardly zigzagging and sparse roads compelled us to let this high-based, southward-moving supercell pass to our east, about an hour after observing a well-defined wall cloud.  Along the way, the storm dumped copious quantities of ice balls from this huge, downburst-blasting hail core, most of which we managed to avoid in person.   The almost blindingly bright core forced me to apply some strong … [Read more...]

Mesocyclone Road

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One long and lonesome road on the New Mexico High Plains led directly toward a southbound spinning cloud.  The destiny of any westbound traveler was jeopardized by lightning, severe winds and damaging hail in the similarly translating core to its north.  Fortunately we could jump back eastward a short distance, head south by southwest on the only other road for many miles, and stay ahead of the … [Read more...]

Memphis Sunset

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Memphis, Texas, that is!  Another fascinating Panhandle chase day ends with a bountifully textured, copper-toned sunset sky, thanks to anvil material backsheared off a bunch of storms.  These are the times when we as storm observers unwind from the day's road travel, standing outside for many minutes, unloading the worries of the world while immersing in the soothing beauty of the moment, and … [Read more...]