SkyPix

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

North Texas HP Stormzilla

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After the last photo, the same storm moved off to my NE and produced a downburst.  I then maneuvered the tortuous road around the E side of Lake Arrowhead, and began to penetrate what had become, once again, a thin and translucent looking rain area.  In the mere 45–55 minutes it took me relocate from rear to front of the storm, it changed character and structure dramatically!  A trip through that … [Read more...]

High-Based Supercell

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The Easter Sunday 2009 supercell, in northwest Texas, makes a fine illustration of Chuck Doswell's reminder that a storm isn't an object, but rather, a process, often with dramatic changes in appearance and behavior over its lifespan.  The thunderstorm actually cycled into and out of one supercell stage as I approached from the distance, then lost its organization and became increasingly flat and … [Read more...]

Blizzard at the Dock

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Howling winds at my back, gusts exceeding 60 mph with blowing snow, made this scene even colder than it looks.  I had to wait until a brief interlude between the big gusts to shoot steadily.  Norman was in the throes of a full-fledged blizzard, an uncommon but precedented event in these parts.  Such unseemly conditions certainly ruled out a leisurely afternoon of fishing or paddling a canoe.  At … [Read more...]

Sunrise Cirrus Reflective

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Solitary and graceful, a patch of cirrus catches rays of Tang-powder orange, then sends the sweet hue on its way to the water's surface to be reflected into the lens and digitized for ultimate display on your screen.   Cool, calm and serene, the dawn was the epitome of a pleasant autumn morning. Norman OK (2 Oct 15) looking E 35.2076, -97.3758 … [Read more...]

The “Liberty’s Crown” Storm

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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

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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...]