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...]
Sunrise Personality 4
Right before all the bright colors faded from the previously redder banding afar, a very brief kiss of cotton-candy coloration swept across a ragged ribbon of cirrus in the wider-angle skyscape. With the benefit of a bigger view and the natural shifts in tone and cloud character, time had assigned this sunrise a concluding, bluer expression of warm and cool chromatic contradictions, before … [Read more...]
Sunrise Personality 3
More minutes passed from the second personality of this sunrise, the frame of view still deeply zoomed but with a slightly different compositional selection. The sky had brightened slightly as more subtly bluesy magenta undertones filtered through the palette. Meanwhile some distant clouds began to block layers of sunlight and adjust the placement of others. The last personality … [Read more...]
Sunrise Personality 2
An even deeper zoom from the first personality of this sunrise, with a minute or two of time added, reveals even brighter reds and oranges in a smaller space, and more yellows, with changes in cloud geometry corresponding to that elapsed time. Tufts and filaments of upper-level virga really stand out nicely against their somewhat darker backgrounds. This is the sky looking dynamic and … [Read more...]
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