Thick plumes of cirrus—spissatus to denote sufficient density to blur or hide the sun—stream high above cliff-forming Ordovician Bighorn dolomite in Tensleep Canyon, Wyoming. These high clouds formed in an area of strengthening upper level lift, ahead of a trough that would support intercept-worthy severe storms in northeastern Wyoming later that day. 10 ENE Ten Sleep WY (16 Jun 7) Looking … [Read more...]
Sweet Sanibel Sunrise
Standing tall as a vaporous sentinel, a small and lone cumulonimbus intercepted the rising sun's rays and reflected them brilliantly across the sky, land and gentle surf. Chances are no other similar photos exist of this marvelous convective sunrise; the beach was nearly devoid of people, save a couple of shellers. Sanibel FL (10 Nov 15) Looking NW 26.4489, -82.1424 … [Read more...]
Back to Future Sundown
Twelve years after shooting sunset slides (including one with lightning) at this location south of Tucumcari, we returned for another stunning exhibit of fluidly glowing color, this time about 90° to the left and more directly facing the sunset. As before, the newly wettened dryland air soothed the senses with its earthy freshness, amidst a chorus of western meadowlarks warbling loudly in all … [Read more...]
Tornadic Bizarre Bazaar
Truly one of the strangest supercell presentations I've ever witnessed—this storm formed in mid-morning near the center of an occluding low-level cyclone and stayed anchored near the low for several hours through the noon hour into mid-afternoon, trekking across much of northwestern Kansas into southern Nebraska, nearly 100 miles behind the dryline. It survived by ingesting a narrow tongue of … [Read more...]
Beyond Buttes
What a great way to end another New Mexico storm day. We immersed in the luxurious smell of a desert soaked by heavy rain, the gravelly scrubland soil strangely muddy underfoot, skies painted in warm pastels and indigo shadows. Beyond and above, a natural fireworks display beyond Bulldog Mesa (actually, a butte) had a grateful audience of two, as Elke and I alternated between clicking the camera … [Read more...]
Between Lake and Log
An impressive array of icicles hung from a log, forming a translucent, frozen rampart between log above and water below. Waves had been sloshing up and down for a couple of days since the end of the Christmas Eve blizzard, helping this formation to grow in marginally freezing weather. The unusual combination of reflected and refracted tones of log, sky, ice, and murky lake water caught my eye … [Read more...]
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