SkyPix

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

Canadian Tornado in Texas

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A broad, significant tornado spins through the countryside just outside the Hemphill County seat, making this (what else?) a Canadian tornado in Texas.  The parent supercell produced several more, but this was the most substantial and best-photographed.  Unfortunately, despite good NWS warnings, it also injured three oil-field workers, for whom our wishes and prayers were for a quick and full … [Read more...]

7-11 Lightning: Strike Six

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The last of the "7-11 Lightning" series, featuring a seemingly ordinary summertime multicell firing brilliant discharges for great distances in assorted directions, concludes with this wickedly forked, split strike.  The leader traveled from somewhere deep inside the storms' middle–upper levels, out of the cloud, through clear air, more cloud, more clear air, then finally a rain foot of a … [Read more...]

Reflections on the Trinity

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On this cool, post-convective evening in late May, the sky treated six million people in the Metroplex to a long-lived sunset for the ages.  Only a few dozen motorists and photographers saw it from this vantage, high above the Trinity River on the Sylvan Avenue bridge.  Returning from storms near Fairfield, I had mapped this viewing angle out in my imagination, armed with an intimate knowledge of … [Read more...]

Patriotic Reflectives in Flood

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Earlier bathed in warm sunset glow, the Dallas skyline settled into a twilight scene, expressing itself most vociferously through the brilliant, color-shifting LED lighting on its tallest building.  Since this was Memorial Day, the lighting theme for the Bank of America Plaza (right) was red, white and blue, reflected both off the flooded Trinity River and off the Renaissance Tower at middle … [Read more...]

Stacked Cars from Above

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The previous Hurricane Andrew damage slide looked at these cars up close from the side, while this bird's-eye perspective peers down from 13 stories aloft.  Even though this seemingly freak phenomenon occurred outside Andrew's maximum winds, it's a result of Bernoulli's principle:  a decrease in the fluid's pressure and/or potential energy (such as forced by an obstacle) is accompanied by an … [Read more...]