Just a little while after another beautiful sunset scene blessed us, there came a late-stage eruption of wispy color tufts drawn from a crimson orb far beyond the horizon. The red–blue contrast was one of the most intense I've seen in a sunset, thanks to a clean wintertime sky and a display of virga-dropping high clouds that would be remarkable at any time of day. Virga simply is precipitation … [Read more...]
Flooded Forest
Inundated woodlands contained 5–10-knot water current throughout. Imagine trying to swim through this churning, obstacle-festooned, muddy mess! Water level was about 7 feet high in the trees, as viewed from atop a railroad embankment. 1 SE Farley MO (10 Jul 93) Looking W 39.2642, -94.8164 … [Read more...]
Textured Twilight Tempest
One of my favorite lighting conditions for storm observation is western twilight, eastern storm. When the subject is a fantastically crisp convective bomb such as this—a supercell on the Great Plains bathed all over in warm and cool pastel tones—I hope it's evident why! An impressive rampart of cumulus congestus rolled up the west flank of the storm beneath a frosty crown of anvil mammatus. In … [Read more...]
Tail Cloud behind Wind Farm
This laminar, sloping and strangely lit cloud formation developed along an area of gentle lift extending northeastward from the similarly flat, featureless supercell base unseen at left. The terrestrial texture of the formation reminds me of a hilly landscape rising in the distance from a glowing ocean. With the aid of a zoom lens, it formed a fine late-afternoon backdrop for the large wind farm … [Read more...]
Window after Ice Storm
Freezing rain and wind combined to coat the north side of this outdoor window with a rippled veneer of ice, yielding a nicely abstract piece of visual art as seen from the inside. The frozen accretion belonged to a covered bus stop at the site of the National Weather Center in Norman. Norman, OK (30 Jan 10) Looking N 35.1829, -97.4393 … [Read more...]
Crumpled Vehicle
This image illustrates why cars and trucks are bad places to be in tornadoes. The Andover, KS, tornado of 26 Apr 1991 mangled this vehicle—probably a van or early model SUV—beyond recognition. It was rolled, battered by debris and ripped by winds near maximum tornado force. The tornado produced F5 damage in a subdivision of large, well-built homes about a half mile SW of this location, and was … [Read more...]
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