Thrusting 72 stories upward, the mathematically regulated, rigid and reflected angular grid of my hometown's tallest skyscraper contrasts with the fluid chaos of cirrus clouds high aloft. This remarkably deep blue, clean summertime sky was delivered to this lens and your screen courtesy of Hurricane Ike, whose remnants passed east of the Metroplex the day before. Dallas, TX (14 Sep 8) Looking … [Read more...]
Torrington Towers Glow
A wondrous rampart of eastern storms persisted through and beyond sunset, offering tones and textures to captivate any appreciative cloud enthusiast. This mass of thick cumulus congestus reflected light from both direct sunlight and hues scattered down from cloud material above (a form of alpenglow). Torrington, WY (31 May 14) Looking ESE 42.0399, -104.1803 … [Read more...]
Storm Season on the High Plains
As spring becomes summer, the peak period for thunderstorms on the High Plains brings not only the welcomed promise of beneficial rains, but a simultaneous offering of beauty and danger with every passing tempest. This view was nearly 180° opposite a deeply textured part of the shelf cloud's underbelly that was moving away, but the cores themselves moved abeam—neither closer nor farther—all while … [Read more...]
Splitter with Overshoot
For all the beauty, wonder and immensity of the Great Plains, and all there is to see on every scale from hundred-mile skies to busy little ant trails, storms such as this are, first and foremost, what draw me across their long miles of roadways each spring. This classic supercell exploded along a warm front to our NE while we were beneath a high-based, low-precip (LP) storm on the dryline about … [Read more...]
Tilted Current
Brilliant, forked lightning cuts its own tortuous "path of least resistance" at speeds greater than the eye can resolve, surely roasting several square inches of ground amongst the dissected grasslands that carpet the Colorado-Nebraska state line. The illusion of the upper part of the bolt's looping on itself is caused simply by our viewing it in two dimensions; one segment actually crossed in … [Read more...]
Altocumulus Mix
A beautiful blend of altocumuli—floccus, undulatus and hints of castellanus— drifted across the refreshingly clean sky of the coastal Pacific Northwest. This view was made possible by a segment of Ahlstrom's Prairie—a flat, wetland opening in the otherwise dense rainforest cover between Lake Ozette and Cape Alava, in Olympic National Park. As happens so often near the Washington coast, fog and … [Read more...]
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