SkyPix

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

Amicalola Falls on a Winter Afternoon

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The main cascade of Amicalola Falls -- highest in Georgia at 729 ft -- spills over hard ledges and chunks of Precambrian schist:  a hard, crystalline basement rock of the Blue Ridge in the Appalachians.  In late-winter afternoon light, its spray makes a rainbow segment, while Golden Hour light warms the tones on the trees, weathered rocks and water plants.  1 NNE Amicalola GA (13 Feb 26) Looking … [Read more...]

Summit Sunrise 2

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For the second straight year, I had an east-facing, upper-floor hotel room at the hotel hosting the National Storm Chase Summit, this time in a suburb of Denver instead of Kansas City.  For the second straight year, a glorious sunrise greeted me through the glass, beyond a small, partly ice-covered pond whose open area reflected the color well.   So, I hoisted some more glass, fired off some … [Read more...]

Golden Hour at Noccalula Falls

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Somewhat swollen by recent melting of snow and ice, Black Creek spilled a little more water than usual over a ledge of Pennsylvanian (geologic time and location!) Pottsville sandstone.  That hard, resistant rock layer, which holds up the ridge known as Lookout Mountain in Alabama and Tennessee, also supports numerous waterfalls from Alabama to Pennsylvania.  Few are as beautiful as Noccalula … [Read more...]

Angel’s Landing Panoramic

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[Click Image to Enlarge] The reward for the punishing, 1500-ft vertical-gain hike up to this vista was...this vista!  Eating a picnic lunch and drinking all of a 2-liter Diet Dr Pepper brought here, I thoroughly soaked in the experience (and rested my sore legs) for 45 minutes, with deep convection building safely far to the north, and shallower cumuliform clouds overhead and to the south.  This … [Read more...]

Supercell Death and Birth

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[Click Image to Enlarge] What a weird sky!  Only a panoramic view could capture visually what was happening here.  Even the nearest (Amarillo) radar, which scanned into the lower midlevels of this process, didn't represent it well, smudging these two supercells together aloft.  The dying supercell at left spent most, maybe all, of its life cycle as an elevated storm, dating from its origins in … [Read more...]

East Hawaiian Sky, Surf and Shore

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[Click Image to Enlarge] Can you almost smell the salt air?  On this sporadically developed coast southeast of Hilo, and nearly as far from Honolulu as one can get on the main islands, a sense of wild Hawaii and a slower pace of life still resides in these parts, despite all the geological and meteorological action subtly at work here.  The surf pounds on lava deposits that flowed from the East … [Read more...]