One way to see the world is through a fluid point of view, as in this breaking water curtain at the Dallas Arboretum. On a hot day (this wasn’t), it’s tempting to interrupt the cascade oneself! The water curtains break at different points and patterns, depending on both flow rate and random fluid chaos, leaving no two images the same. Dallas TX (8 Mar 23) Looking SE 32.8248, -96.7142 … [Read more...]
Hill Country Sunset
After tangling with a messy complex of storms farther east near Corsicana and Fairfield, which was headed into the dense forests of east Texas, we wandered west through Waco to the Hill Country for late-afternoon to sunset convective scenes action near the earlier storms' outflow boundary. This storm went up well to the northwest, then and traveled southeastward atop the outflow, and actually was … [Read more...]
Counter-Rotating Wall Clouds
After spending a long, late lunchtime in Dallas waiting for signs the cap would break, it did in spades, not far south of town. By the time we managed to get through a growing area of storms and weave our way to the then-dominant cell, it sported a remarkable counter-rotating pair of wall clouds. The one on the left rotated anticyclonically (counterclockwise), with the tail cloud on the near … [Read more...]
Frontlit Corsicana Arcus
An unusual early/mid-June storm-observing excursion south of the Metroplex led to a short-lived supercell and storm merger west of Corsicana, whereupon an aerial flood of outflow commenced. What made the event striking was its coloration: the turquoise-tinted core, an east-facing arcus frontlit with a peachy hue. I've seen this effect several times before, but always on the High Plains, such as … [Read more...]
Roadway Reclaimed
An abandoned Nebraska Sandhills road, slowly reclaimed by the prairie it once divided, yields to the forces of weather and time. Over time, the weather damage adds up, 'til no road passeth here. Inch by inch, year by year, the asphalt will revert to smaller chunks, then granules, under unrelenting freeze-thaw cycles, direct erosion of running water and wind-blown sand, chemical wear, and growth … [Read more...]
Supercellular Spark on the Mesa
A formerly imposing supercell begins to weaken somewhat, but still spits lightning from high in its inner forward-flank core edge, as it moves east-southeastward into the high mesas along the Colorado/New Mexico border. This flurry of amperage was the storm's grand finale before it plowed into the mesas and dissipated, dispersing a cloud field to contribute partly to a grand sunset later. 1 NW … [Read more...]
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