SkyPix

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

Serenity on Keweenaw Bay

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As the sun set beyond the Keweenaw Peninsula, the innermost corner of Keweenaw Bay reflected its golden glow, in turn silhouetting a lone heron.  The big bird strolled back and forth through the shallow flats in search of a morsel, while we relaxed in the waning light of another fine summer day at Lake Superior. L'Anse MI (20 Jul 7) Looking NW 46.7586, -88.4578 … [Read more...]

Swimming Autumn Leaves

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Quiet, clear pool waters of a small, shady stream held these recently submerged leaves in the same photogenic position as I found them.  Being nestled in a narrow, damp canyon, protected from wind by the gorge's steep-walled depth and the overlying dense forest, here they probably stayed until the next rains washed them to the Wabash.  Yet few people ventured into this branch of the canyon, and … [Read more...]

Hot Plume Backsheared

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As the "Noble" fire grew and blew across ever-larger areas of southeastern rural Norman, the upper reaches its pyroconvective plume supported persistent growths of deep cloud towers.  Wildfire plumes can generate one of the two most common kinds of flammagenitus clouds, the other being from eruptive volcanoes.  At times, the entire fluid body of smoke and condensation looked like a miniature … [Read more...]

Churning Closer

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The Aurora tornadic vortex was both expanding and approaching, moving directly toward me while stripping countless tons of topsoil from the field occupying the second half-section to our west.  This normally would be a rather unsettling situation for most observers, yet I was fully aware and at peace with it.  See, the car was pointed east, the engine running well, several escape routes available … [Read more...]

Night Freeze

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Quiet but for the sporadic crackle of icy tree limbs in a muted breeze, the OU campus bore a distinctively transient manner of nocturnal illumination, sparkling from thousands of points of reflection above ground.  Ice from a freezing-rain event coated objects above the surface, down to grass blades; but streets stayed too warm for the liquid to freeze. Norman OK (22 Dec 13) Looking W 35.1842, … [Read more...]