SkyPix

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

I-94 Muncher Part 2

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[Part 2 of 3]  Based on the orientation of the I-94 storm's onrushing shelf cloud, I thought I could get a complementary curve in the foreground with the wet entrance ramp on the north side, and indeed, hobbled over the bridge barely in time to do so.  Hobbled?  Yes, unfortunately, thanks to a painful, pulled calf muscle suffered a couple days before, while slipping on some mud in Chadron, NE.  … [Read more...]

I-94 Muncher Part 1

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[Part 1 of 3]  After fortuitously encountering a photogenic midday roll cloud near I-90, I ate lunch and monitored data in New Ulm.  I hoped for a storm to erupt on an outflow boundary nearby, that I could track across relatively flat and open prairies in the southern part of the state.  When it became apparent that wasn't happening, the only option was a young supercell right-moving down I-94 … [Read more...]

Night Tornadoes and CG

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A leading hook echo and mesocyclone region, which I had dodged north of Union City several minutes before, produced these tornadoes northeast of the town, between there and Yukon.  The broader circulation at left was silhouetted by more artificial light near I-40 and a couple of distant flashes in the 12-second exposure, while starting to get rain-wrapped.  That’s why it’s a little less sharp than … [Read more...]

Clearwater Washer

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To be clear, this is the Clearwater in Minnesota, not Florida, though a scene such as this is possible in either.  The highway in the foreground is I-94, along which a hail-flinging, heavy-precip supercell developed near the North Dakota border and right-turned southeastward, evolving over time into a mean little bowing line segment with severe wind and flooding rains.  This was probably its most … [Read more...]

Sunset in Oklahoma

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Oklahoma’s wide skies and wild weather offer countless many cloud formations, and opportunities to see those clouds set aglow with the colors of the setting sun.  This sunset just a mile from our home was a splendid as anything I’ve driven hundreds of miles to shoot.  It was far from the first or last great sundown show we’ve seen from this area, as per the numerous Norman-based shots found in the … [Read more...]

Roll over Minnesota

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Out of a seemingly fuzzy, nebulous and nondescript area of elevated thunderstorms, a stunning, sharply formed roll cloud developed to the northwest, and surged right into an area of older outflow from storms I had passed in the ensuing couple hours.  Heretofore, I had seen roll clouds with this much definition and contrast only in old weather books from libraries of the 1970s and before, usually … [Read more...]