SkyPix

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

Cumulus Mediocris, Everglades

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Benign but mildly sheared cumulus clouds drift placidly over the Everglades—Florida's little estuarine version of the Great Plains.  While living in Miami, I made many short trips westward into the River of Grass, finding a large element of the same solace and immersion in the spaciousness of sky as I would during springtime sojourns to the high plains.   John Anderson's Seminole Wind plays in my … [Read more...]

Limited-Access Highway

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The sigh told the truth, but not for the intended reason.  Travel off and on US-71 (since upgraded to I-49) was restricted by floodwaters from the Marais des Cygnes River, rising to near-record crests, and covering farm after farm, and inundating many secondary roads such as the one crossing the center of the photograph. 4 N Rich Hill MO (9 Jul 93) Looking SSE 38.1665, -94.3532 … [Read more...]

Reflections of Pictured Rocks

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Combine spectacular sandstone cliffs of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, late afternoon summer sunlight shining right onto their faces, and unusually placid waters of Lake Superior, and this is the result.  Even in the tranquility of this moment, the deadly bitter cold and pounding ferocity of wintertime's worst weather—the sort of "gales of November" that sank the Edmund Fitzgerald not far east … [Read more...]

Altostratus Slate Sky over Bighorns Wildflowers

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In the twilight hour, an altostratus deck in the southwestern sky darkened the distant countryside under a shadowy slate hue, leaving most of the evening glow to shine down from the north and east upon the near foreground:  a thick carpet of arrowleaf balsamroot and lupines.  We were glad to be in this time and place, not just to photograph unusual evening light, but to experience a bountiful … [Read more...]

The Caged Bear

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After spawning the Sargent tornado, this supercell underwent a metamorphosis that is common, but still striking—from classic to HP (heavy precipitation) appearance.  The next mesocyclone developed a broad, loose cloud-base circulation that spun slowly for half an hour, trudging along toward the town of Comstock (several miles beyond the low hill in this photo).  That circulation then intensified, … [Read more...]