SkyPix

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

Sunrise Stripes of Acadia

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Between indirect and direct sunrise colors' brilliantly illuminating a nearer field of midlevel clouds, distant cirrus bands started catching some of the earliest rays of sunshine at higher altitudes (and lower longitudes).  A deep-zoom peek into their lair brings them out nicely.  With all this action going on in the east, and even a little later in the west, this splendid sunrise on Mount Desert … [Read more...]

Surf Crash Fountain

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Busting into a hard, granite cove, a swell of Atlantic surf sends plumes of foam and spray crashing up the cliffs and skyward, in a show of cold liquid mimicking pyrotechnics.  Though waves by the hundreds crash into these rocks on a daily basis, every one hoists a pattern of spray and splashing as unique as a fingerprint. 5 SSE Bar Harbor ME (2 Oct 22) Looking NNW 44.3195, -68.1887 … [Read more...]

Golden Orange Finish

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After a successful chase day involving three quite different supercells, the third one merged with newer, nearby convection to yield a messy storm complex.  On that outflow formed a good deal of fractocumulus scud, and whose backside gave us this fine finish to the day.   Much like a brilliant sunset earlier the same year, a field of low clouds and scud parted just in time to reveal the source of … [Read more...]

Tiered Sunrise Shelf

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After dazzling sunrise light at higher cloud levels, I drove the short distance across this arm of Lake Thunderbird to witness the arrival of a small line of storms whose middle to upper cloud decks produced the earlier color.   A brief, elevated circulation formed along the leading edge after the gust front had passed.  Then the trailing, multiply tiered shelf cloud followed suit, itself now … [Read more...]

Atlanta Supercell

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After leaving an HP supercell farther north that morphed into a nasty, fast-moving "stormzilla", this smaller, more-classical, less-stressful storm swirled obliquely out of northern Oklahoma and across the level limestone prairie near Atlanta, KS—between Wichita and Osage County.  The window of opportunity to see and gratefully appreciate this marvelously complex, skeletal structure was … [Read more...]

Morning Squall Line Circulation

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Following a beautiful sunrise, I made the short drive to the other side of the lake to watch a line of thunderstorms move in.  Remarkably resembling that of a small supercell, a distinct updraft base decorated the front side of a broken squall line surging southeastward toward me.  The perceived supercellular resemblance had some merit, as the cloud base slowly rotated, bringing to mind the … [Read more...]