SkyPix

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

Lenticular over Dyrhólaey

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Iceland abounds with grand landscapes, few more diverse and memorable than the sea stacks, cliffs, river delta, and black-sand beaches of the Dyrholaey Nature Reserve.  The nearest stack used to be a mile or more out to sea, but now connects to the mainland via this sand spit, thanks to sediments washed downriver from multiple eruptions of the major volcano Katla.  We caught the scene under a … [Read more...]

Sunset Silhouettes

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Epitomizing the serenity of the moment, a blue heron rests as the golden light of an Oklahoma sunset reflects off surrounding lake waters.  Minutes later, as daylight faded, the atmosphere offered a marvelously colored visual finale. 1 W Little Axe OK (2 Jan 7) Looking WSW 35.2363, -97.2232 … [Read more...]

Virga Sunset

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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

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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

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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

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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...]