No convection had appeared in the sky an hour before, yet a fast-developing, fast-moving squall line rushed forth with blasts of lightning, embedded mesocirculations, and even severe hail. The atmosphere can evolve speedily! At the very spot where nearly six years before, I had shot a classically structured, discrete supercell, on this evening I faced a furiously chaotic and growing band of … [Read more...]
Middle Silver Falls
Overshadowed by the nearby "Magpie High Falls", this smaller yet still beautiful cascade, tucked into a densely forested area, likewise tumbles the Magpie River toward Lake Superior. This looks like an inviting area for water play once the stream warms up some more into the Algoma Country summertime. Michipicoten ON (15 Jun 7) Looking NNW 47.94, -84.829 … [Read more...]
Skeleton Forest
Skeleton forests can happen from any cause of mass tree death, the most common being fire and (as here) flood. A large grove of deceased cottonwoods bathed in shallow water, along an arm of western Nebraska's Lake McConaughy. Warm late-spring winds whistled through the upper reaches of the arboreal graveyard, their gentle gusts offering a rhythmic ode to the cycles of life on the water's edge. … [Read more...]
Iridescent Altocumulus Translucidus Undulatus
Right in my front driveway, one chilly morning, the most amazing display of cloud iridescence I've seen breezed by in the mid-troposphere, within a patch of altocumulus translucidus undulatus that was wavy horizontally as well as vertically. I placed my big ol' fist before the sun and deliberately underexposed the surrounding blue sky by a few stops, in order to capture the fullest possible … [Read more...]
Reunion Fog
A foggy day gets foggier the higher one goes into the stratus (fog here being a stratus cloud with no base, just more translucence closer to the ground). Dallas' iconic Reunion Tower became nearly invisible above the 500-foot level, where its attached dome of light fixtures encloses a revolving restaurant and observation deck. Shallow ponds and wetlands below the Trinity River's massive … [Read more...]
Magpie Falls (Ontario)
Tumbling over hard, Precambrian igneous rocks, the Magpie River will take a very, very long time to erode these cascades upstream. The remaining part of Magpie High Falls, not submerged by the reservoir above it, isn't outrageously high, with a vertical drop of about 75 feet. Still, this is one of the widest of the dozens of waterfalls that adjoin Lake Superior. As on all the other streams … [Read more...]
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