Following a beautiful sunrise, I made the short drive to the other side of the lake to watch a line of thunderstorms move in. Remarkably resembling that of a small supercell, a distinct updraft base decorated the front side of a broken squall line surging southeastward toward me. The perceived supercellular resemblance had some merit, as the cloud base slowly rotated, bringing to mind the … [Read more...]
Flaming Scud, Northern Appalachians
Fast-moving stratocumulus and fractocumulus clouds followed a cold front accelerated by the gradient flow around the west side of extratropically transitioning Hurricane Fiona, landfalling over 200 miles to the east in Nova Scotia. The Green Mountains, part of the northern Appalachians, silhouetted their sunset glow. A faint, iridescent segment appears above and beyond the main scud pile. 3 W … [Read more...]
Atmospheric Underglow
Underglow more commonly is known from the social-vanity phenomenon of strapping L.E.D. strands on the underbellies of cars to make the street light up. However, the atmosphere can do it to, in a bass-ackwards way. It helps hugely to have a large water body beneath! Here, following a gorgeous sunrise, the show wasn't done. After the sun has disappeared behind the cloud edge from our viewing … [Read more...]
Surf Crash Foam
On a grander scale, this sea-foam eruption looked remarkably symmetric, thanks to a horseshoe-shaped "blowhole" in the igneous rock that redirected certain directions of incoming waves skyward in magnificent turbulence. Closer examination of this high-speed freeze-shot reveals randomly bent expulsions, tangled strands interspersed with detached and freely flying fluid spheres, a unique pattern … [Read more...]
Another Fan Crawler
Nearly symmetric, fan-shaped eruptions of anvil crawlers like this are not too common in my decades of experience shooting lightning. Yet mere minutes after one fan crawler blasted across the sky, came this one! Of course, it wasn't a duplicate (no two lightning discharges ever are precisely alike), but a curiously similar mimic. We stood with awe and gratitude at the remarkable encore, before … [Read more...]
Trailing HP Supercell
Dropping south of the deeply wrapped Gracemont/Tuttle/south OKC supercell, I aimed to see a trailing storm moving out of the Chickasha area before it was interfered too much by the gust front surging from the northern storm. That gust front can be implied at right, with a shelf cloud above it. Meanwhile the trailing heavy-precip (HP) storm looked as good as it ever would. A newer, also messy HP … [Read more...]
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