We were packing the car and fixing to leave Cadillac Mountain, in Acadia National Park, where we had spent a few morning hours overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Maine coastline. I happened to look up to see a vivid lower tangent arc quickly appearing below the sun, grabbed the camera, and did a boulder dash back up past the summit for this shot. This tangent arc had shallow curvature because … [Read more...]
Third Thunderous Thrust at the Truck Stop
Traffic on I-35 raced this way and that under the bridge at lower right, heading to and from a high-based thunderstorm that spit out several delightfully loud and photogenic CGs, also including these. It was a nice way to finish a long day's chase, after driving three hours north to see a small tornado in southern Kansas, and then observing at close range a separate, arguably tornadic supercell … [Read more...]
Spear the Moon
An already promising, early-stage sunset sky of golden cirrus fibratus (above shaded altostratus) became weird when a fresh contrail appeared to spear the waxing crescent moon! The plane is a faint dot at the left tip of the "spear". Of course, this was a fantastic, low-probability, coincidental superposition, thanks to a Boston-to-Paris flight I noticed on a tracking app. A lot of aviation … [Read more...]
Storm Route: Edwards
Prior convection to the south, near the Kansas/Oklahoma line, looked promising briefly, but too many cells erupted too close to each other, and things got messy in a hurry. With a little daylight left, a newer storm erupting just a couple counties to the northwest near the dryline, and no blocking clouds apparent in visuals or satellite imagery in the distant west-northwest, I gambled that an … [Read more...]
Surf Blasting Boulder
Water versus land: the continual erosive forces of this interaction mold shorelines across the Earth. Hard as the igneous and metamorphic rock can be there, coastal Maine is no exception. The boulder, of course, blows the wave up into millions of drops, as it will the next one of similar magnitude. Yet the surf in relentless progression, wave by wave, grain by grain, will wear this rock to a … [Read more...]
Direct Sunrise Color
This spectacularly colored, clean-sky sunrise scene really began with a lot of indirect coloration on the same swath of altocumulus and altostratus, just a few minutes earlier. As the sun rose above the Atlantic Ocean horizon, from the cloud-level perspective (not yet, here), the direct rays painted red-orange tones of such brilliance that I was tempted to turn down the saturation knob from the … [Read more...]
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