SkyPix

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

Night Mesocyclone: Convergent, Rising Dust

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A long day of driving up from Norman, and observing spectacular supercells mainly in Nebraska, concluded on the way to my motel room at night, with another one forming along a trailing part of the same outflow-reinforced baroclinic zone.  Staring straight under the mesocyclone and wall cloud here, with a formidable rear-flank core at left, and given the stabilizing inflow layer, I knew this storm … [Read more...]

Rainier in Sunrise

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A lightly breezy dawn feathers the lake and forest reflections of Mt. Rainier, king of all the Cascades.  Getting up early for this wasn't easy, but absolutely was worth it!  The sunlight and reflections evolved over the minutes into an altogether new, yet wondrous scene, and the zoomed view into the glaciers at this hour was gorgeous, memorable and special too. 20 NNE Packwood WA (15 Aug 16) … [Read more...]

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

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A pretty comet with a unique mouthful of a name appeared in the sky for several mornings, then evenings, in fall 2024, barely visible to the naked eye but easily picked up in cameras.   This was a post-sunset view between altostratus pieces, and just above a weakening contrail.  Even with the comet's being many millions of miles away, the perspective gives an illusion of its dodging clouds to be … [Read more...]

University Supercell

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As this spectacular supercell churned along past the OU campus, it gained instant-legend status precisely for not just its stunning appearance, but where it presented its very best views, right at the very locus of severe-storms research and forecasting in all of this world:  the National Weather Center.   Despite the countless many Oklahoma supercells I had seen and photographed in nearly four … [Read more...]

Deceptive Tranquility

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This may be the only photo I ever get of lights from a police boat, on a somewhat foggy river.  The calm-looking scene in front of downtown Portland and the Morrison Bridge belies the reason for the police boat's presence:  patrolling the Willamette River for any extension of a wave of protesting and sporadic destructive rioting, happening beneath and between the buildings in the distance.   Some … [Read more...]

Big Volcano “Afloat”

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Whether from its many great ground-based vantages, or by air as here, Mount Rainier never fails to inspire respect and amazement for its size, beauty and potential danger.  In this view, from the east-northeast, the big volcano seems to float amongst or above a deck of thin fog and stratus in the boundary layer, above which the mountaintop extends.   All three stratiform cloud types also are … [Read more...]