SkyPix

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

Alien Sunset

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What a marvelous storm-intercept day this was!  For hours, we had feasted on the smorgasbord of supercellular splendor with the long-lived "Roswell Mothership", and as that storm scenically spun down, its closely trailing older sibling.  Then the amazing storm you see erupted along and atop the outflow boundary from the first two, and reached peak structural majesty right as the sun set behind … [Read more...]

Dry Tortugas Afternoon

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In the most remote national park of the contiguous United States, a quiet, marvelously desolate little tropical beach awaits bare feet and undistracted contemplation.  Here, a bleached log's roots seems to walk ashore, as if a castaway from a lost forest far, far away.  Whether for real or in the traveling imagination, even if for just a minute, may you find a place of solace and … [Read more...]

Gulf Horizon

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A long travel day ended in just the right way, gazing spellbound across the breadth of the Gulf of Mexico for another of southwest Florida's famous sunsets.  This view is a deep zoom into the most intense reds and yellows near the horizon, as seen through the largest possible quantity and density of air that preferentially filters away the cool colors.  The next dry land to the west is … [Read more...]

Cone in Rain on the Plain

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The lower reaches of the "Slapout tornado" assumed a fuzzy cone shape, while the upper portion tilted visibly westward back toward the slower-moving, mid-level mesocyclone.  The rainy occlusion downdraft carved a narrow moat of relatively cloud-deprived air around the upper part of the visible tornado, though which fascinating hues of blue-green shone from above.  Meanwhile, a few suction vortices … [Read more...]

Glory and 737 Shadow

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As the plane descended, an otherwise drab deck of ragged stratocumulus took on this optical glory, which of course followed the apparently expanding shadow of the Boeing 737 all the way into the top of the cloud layer.  For an explanation of how the phenomenon works, check out a previous entry featuring a glory seen from too high above its causative clouds to make out the shadow. over northern … [Read more...]