SkyPix

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

Storefront Rubble

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Rubble piled in a convenience store, with the roof missing.  This was on the S side of Quail Roost at the Turnpike, part of a different strip mall than the "Botanica" that suffered deep structural damage.  What a mess!  Parts of the roof fell into the store; while other pieces were scattered for several blocks westward and southwestward.  Insulation dangled loosely here and there.  All plate-glass … [Read more...]

Soft Cumuli in a Warm Breeze

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Another warm winter day in the Florida Keys soothes body and spirit, the gentle breeze rustling palm fronds beneath a blend of cumuli and fractocumuli.  This is where we had a delicious seafood lunch while the gulls cackled and fish jumped in the mangrove-lined channels of ocean water.  That night, we would experience a cold rain and aggravating flight delays forcing an unplanned and … [Read more...]

Geese not Cooked

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A ribbon stroke, with no apparent branching, cut the night sky behind a southern Oklahoma impoundment, as a pair of honking geese (lower right) stood by.  We heard the geese somewhere out there, and only saw their specific location when looking at this image later.  Earlier visible CG strokes, both from a separate supercell and from this elevated storm, displayed intricate forking—the signature … [Read more...]

Natural Falls, Oklahoma Ozarks

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Tucked into a quiet corner of the Oklahoma Ozarks, Natural Falls is a graceful, 77-foot torrent of Spring Branch Creek into a shallow pool, framed by smaller, spring-fed cascades that pour forth from karst caves in the cliff faces.  Standing in the spray, peering up at dense, lush greenery in all directions, it is easy to forget that one is in Oklahoma, albeit by only a few miles.  Ever since … [Read more...]

Textured Sunset

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One of the beauties of sunrises and sunsets, aside from simple aesthetics, is that every single one is unique from all others, given the presence of clouds to to reflect or silhouette the light.  The atmosphere being a chaotic fluid form, one could see ten thousand colorful sunsets over a lifetime and shoot several times that many unique photos, given the changes to the sky over time window of … [Read more...]

Sastrugi—More than One Sastruga

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Sastruga is a rather obscure word but one with a clear definition in meteorology:  a wind-created ridge on a snow surface.  The process is not greatly different from that which forms sand dunes.  Snow-dune or ripple formation isn't just a larger-scale effect of sand over many square miles; it can happen on scales of feet inches under the right conditions.  Here, miniature transverse dunes, with … [Read more...]