SkyPix

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

Surf Crash Foam

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On a grander scale, this sea-foam eruption looked remarkably symmetric, thanks to a horseshoe-shaped "blowhole" in the igneous rock that redirected certain directions of incoming waves skyward in magnificent turbulence.  Closer examination of this high-speed freeze-shot reveals randomly bent expulsions, tangled strands interspersed with detached and freely flying fluid spheres, a unique pattern … [Read more...]

Another Fan Crawler

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Nearly symmetric, fan-shaped eruptions of anvil crawlers like this are not too common in my decades of experience shooting lightning.  Yet mere minutes after one fan crawler blasted across the sky, came this one!  Of course, it wasn't a duplicate (no two lightning discharges ever are precisely alike), but a curiously similar mimic.  We stood with awe and gratitude at the remarkable encore, before … [Read more...]

Trailing HP Supercell

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Dropping south of the deeply wrapped Gracemont/Tuttle/south OKC supercell, I aimed to see a trailing storm moving out of the Chickasha area before it was interfered too much by the gust front surging from the northern storm.  That gust front can be implied at right, with a shelf cloud above it.  Meanwhile the trailing heavy-precip (HP) storm looked as good as it ever would.  A newer, also messy HP … [Read more...]

Wayside Revelation 2

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In what I termed the "Wayside Revelation" right there on the spot, the sky's obscurations of low clouds and dust parted before a tall, brilliantly illuminated sunset supercell.  While too much dust remained to see anything meaningful of the storm's base, its previously golden middle and upper reaches reddened into more of a copper hue, compelling a wellspring of gratitude to begin closing out a … [Read more...]

Wayside Revelation 1

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[Park 1 of 2]  After spending most of the afternoon in dense warm-sector dust, just enough settled right before sunset to finally witness one of several supercells that formed along or just ahead of the dryline.   Then, while moving east and north to catch up to the fast-moving storm, a layer of low, scuddy stratocumulus clouds quickly developed and covered the view.  Standing at one of the last … [Read more...]

Nontornadic Supercellular Squiggly

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The "boundary supercell" west of Broadus kicked off the first of two straight days of harrowing storm intercepts, each featuring a fast-moving supercell in the same area, ahead of which legally fast pacing was possible but difficult.  After growing in size, and growing in percentage of the camera view filled thanks to employing a long zoom lens, the storm got much-better organized.  A suspicious … [Read more...]