Consider it a costly lesson in winter-weather driving for the young chap who ruined his day in this manner. As I was shooting the scene the next day, the father of the driver, and a couple of his friends, arrived to winch the car out of its frigid predicament. Fortunately, nobody got hurt in the wreck. Still, I wonder if the son was allowed to drive this car again. 3 N Lexington, OK (30 Jan … [Read more...]
Beuna Vista Vista
Buena Vista means "good view", certainly an appropriate moniker on this fine evening. Cutting through a clean high-country sky, the setting sun's rays boldly illuminated a very high-based convective cloud hovering directly over Mt. Princeton. Look closely at the upper portion of the mountain's surface, above timberline, and behold the subtly warm hue of the cloud's own sunset light, in turn … [Read more...]
Outflow Surfer
Having temporarily gotten away from us as we repositioned, this striking supercell offered a splendid scene anyway, as it dominated the near-northeastern sky. The storm conveniently was located just north of an east-west Interstate to parallel its direction of motion, allowing for a rapid catch-up exercise. Catch it we did, eventually, though it cruised along at a rate of speed faster than the … [Read more...]
7-11 Lightning: Strike Two
After the first such blast, I was somewhat optimistic that another bolt would fire miles outward from the side of this multicell storm, which looked rather ordinary apart from its wild aggression with lightning discharges. Surely indeed, it happened, followed in about a minute by a distant but sharp, reverberating peal of thunder. Once this amazing, forked eruption of storm electricity took … [Read more...]
Brilliant Grand Finale
Two hours earlier, on this last storm-intercept day of our 2010 season, a fast-moving, beautiful, outflow-dominant storm gusted itself to death over the southern Nebraska Panhandle, a cold and blustery atmospheric act fitting of closure. As we headed back to lodging in North Platte, however, the final and most spectacularly constructed supercell of the entire season erupted to our SE, shortly … [Read more...]
Cloud-Banded Sunset Sandwich
Multiple cloud layers in different places seem to sandwich the setting sun, high across Colorado's vast chunk of the Great Plains. At about the same time, but in the opposite direction, this light brilliantly illuminated the back side of a storm complex. Swivel your head! Scan from horizon to zenith in all directions! Something interesting and beautiful could be happening, sometimes in two … [Read more...]
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