Bruarfoss is not one of the "touristy" falls in Iceland and takes some effort to reach--a hike along an unmarked and muddy trail from a dirt back road, in a remote country neighborhood--and as such, can be enjoyed with no other company. You know we did. The effort to get there is forgotten when one reaches the river, and as if by magic, this staggering scene opens wide before bulging eyes and … [Read more...]
Convective Tower Shadowing Smoke
Towering cumulus created a strange and eerily beautiful visual effect, shadowing boundary-layer smoke that had wafted 125 miles from the Cow Camp fire in Wyoming. That 6,000-acre blaze started a few days earlier in the Medicine Bow National Forest NW of Wheatland WY, and sent pulses of dense smoke skyward. Southwesterlies behind the dryline carried the smoke to the northwestern part of the … [Read more...]
Two Mesocyclones and a CG at Sunset
This complex convective cluster had a lot to offer the attentive observer! A wall cloud and weak mesocyclone headed eastward with the more northern, distant updraft, still accessing somewhat undisturbed inflow from the more precip-infused nearer storm. The latter sported a vigorously rotating cloud base in the foreground, around which copious rain and probably some hail were orbiting. Te spin … [Read more...]
No Volcanoes in Oklahoma
On a hot, windy day, this is not what any rural resident wishes to see through the trees. Since Oklahoma doesn't have volcanoes, the nature of this flammagenitus cloud formation (big pyrocumulus, atop a smoke plume) was easy to guess on a record-hot summer day. Pyrocumulus formation would continue through the rest of daylight. Though the fire stayed a few miles east of us, it immediately … [Read more...]
Intimate View of Selfoss
Upstream from the more famous Dettifoss, Selfoss actually is a series of at least a dozen (depending on water levels) individual cascades that tumble over the side of a remarkably long, level cliff face that angles obliquely across the Jokulsa A Fjollum River. The base of one of the bigger members of Selfoss is seen here, spraying across dislodged blocks of basalt in ghostly procession. These … [Read more...]
Stop, Ice!
Though rather difficult to cite for violations, or to handcuff and heave into the stockade, this ice nevertheless decided to obey the law and come to a full stop before proceeding past the traffic sign. Especially during such treacherous motoring conditions, many drivers would be wise to follow the example of this frozen, inanimate, yet legally obedient entity! Norman, OK (30 Jan 10) Looking … [Read more...]
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