Until about ten minutes before totality, seeing the total phase of the 2024 solar eclipse in Dallas was no sure thing, thanks to persistent low clouds that were slowly breaking up, but still littering the sky to a disturbingly dense degree. Nonetheless, one of my favorite non-totality scenes involved thin chunks of fractocumulus scud passing before the solar disk. Seen and photographed with … [Read more...]
Total Solar Eclipse 2024
The 2024 total eclipse in Dallas was nearly four minutes of astonishment, plenty of time not only for a few photos, but also, unrestrained and appreciative immersion in a rare moment of celestial glory, last experienced for about 2/3 as long, in a vastly different environment of eastern Wyoming's High Plains. This zoomed-in image stacks a couple of totality shots for sky color (dark blue, not … [Read more...]
Total Eclipse: Dallas
As a child, seeing future eclipse paths in the World Book Encyclopedia, knowing that a total solar eclipse would pass over Dallas on 8 April 2024, I vowed to be at this specific spot. What then was under-construction Reunion Tower would be directly under the high-sky midday eclipse, for a truly unique foreground, if I could live this long and it wasn't cloudy. Low clouds parted just in time! … [Read more...]
Going Outflow Dominant
A supercell that lived most of its lifespan as a "mean, ugly, nasty HP" finally began to vomit so much outflow that its low-level mesocyclone was becoming elevated, and the storm started to evolve into a bowing structure. The forced ascent from its cold pool produced some fascinating juxtapositions of laminar and ragged cloudforms at this stage, amidst swaths of turquoise and peach hues that I've … [Read more...]
M.U.N. Supercell
The day before, we had observed well-structured supercells in messy terrain (the Hill Country of central Texas). On this day, we hauled northwestward over six hours to track a messy supercell in easy terrain (of the northern Panhandle)! I've grown respectfully, begrudgingly fond of heavy-precipitation supercells like this over the years, referring to them mainly by two nicknames: "Stormzilla" … [Read more...]
Remnant Mesocyclone
Sometimes, tracking storms in the field is far more indirect than expected. Headed northwest from Dalhart, then west near the Oklahoma line for an intensifying supercell dropping SE from the Oklahoma Panhandle, we were moving toward ideal position to observe, but still in sun and barely too distant to see more than murky darkness under the anvil. Cresting the hill of the heretofore good dirt … [Read more...]
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