Midlevel showers dropped variably thin, translucent to opaque streamers of rain aloft, cast aglow by warm rays of late dawn. A scientifically explainable process gloriously colored and texturized the sunrise sky, similarly to a somewhat rainier, higher-based, more orange sunrise from a few years earlier in the Badlands. This sunrise from our driveway hugely pleased two longtime lovers sharing … [Read more...]
Last Acadian Sunrise
Well, it's not the last ever in the Acadia region, but this was the final sunrise or sunset for us, of several wonderful ones on our Maine trip. We shortly would bid goodbye to the land of "lobstah", bound to end the day at a hotel near Boston to fly out the next morning. Cirrus fibratus and thin cirrostratus strands both caught and shadowed the hidden sun's warming rays, to the tune of a finely … [Read more...]
Three Tree Trunks in the Torrent
Fort Gibson Dam's floodgates were open nearly full-throttle, releasing the waters of a bloated reservoir for a wild time of whitewater action downstream. By the time the foam and spray settled away, the moving current still coursed through miles of riverside parkland and property, including the campground containing these and other trees. 5 NNE Fort Gibson OK (16 Oct 9) Looking E 35.8676, … [Read more...]
Connecticut River, Narrow View
The Connecticut River long has been painted, drawn and photographed along various parts of its length down west-central New England, but seldom has been depicted quite like this. The midday sparkle of the water, through heavy timber cladding the 1911 Mt. Orne Covered Bridge, let light into the mid-structure, but only in narrow, regularly spaced slits. On the right was Vermont, on the left, New … [Read more...]
Killeen Storm Mustache
Al Moller often said, "Beware storms with mustaches!", not because they necessarily would become tornadic, but because they generally are supercells, and something hazardous was about to happen. This storm dropped severe hail around several cyclic mesocyclones in a long trek across the Hill Country and off the Balcones Escarpment. Here, over Killeen, it exhibited a long, ragged wall cloud with … [Read more...]
Cirrus over Mt. Washington Observatory
Cirrus fibratus grades to a street of cirrostratus, with a fading old contrail mixed in for good measure. This all wafted over an iconic and legendary meteorological spot: the Mount Washington Observatory. An unusually calm, splendid day belies the thoroughly wretched and dangerous conditions that often blast this place in the cool season. With no barrier to low-level jets blowing from any … [Read more...]
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