A weakening, outflow-dominant supercell churned SSE toward us as we observed from the NW outskirts of Pampa, hoping for some good lightning viewing and photography. Instead, we got one of the most peculiar cloud arrangements I've witnessed around a storm—a midlevel skirt of radial spikes, reminiscent of the crown of the Statue of Liberty, and with enough night light to help it take its own … [Read more...]
Velkommen
Velkommen...til oversvømmelsen! Story City's annual Scandinavian festival got cut short by a Sunday flood that divided the town in two, overtopping its main road (Broad Street) near the Skunk River. Fortunately for the town, the waters fell again the next day and no homes got flooded. The story elsewhere in Iowa was more bleak, however; these floodwaters joined those from other streams to form … [Read more...]
Twilight
Between sunset and nightfall passes the period known as twilight, a period of illumination long subject to rumination by poets and romantics the world over. Its morning counterpart has the same name. Twilight has varying stages, the first ending with civil dusk (sun 6° under horizon). Even with the sun well below the horizon, sunlight is be scattered through the upper atmosphere to … [Read more...]
Super Blood Harvest Moon Tetrad
My admittedly ridiculous title combines the best (or worst!) of many nicknames for the uncommon juxtaposition of a so-called "super moon" (in its closest orbital segment to Earth), "blood moon" (red light refracted through Earth's atmosphere then reflected off the lunar surface), tetrad (fourth straight lunar eclipse that has been total), and harvest moon (closest full moon to the autumnal … [Read more...]
Rays through Rain Shafts
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
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...]
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