SkyPix

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

Supercell Death and Birth

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[Click Image to Enlarge] What a weird sky!  Only a panoramic view could capture visually what was happening here.  Even the nearest (Amarillo) radar, which scanned into the lower midlevels of this process, didn't represent it well, smudging these two supercells together aloft.  The dying supercell at left spent most, maybe all, of its life cycle as an elevated storm, dating from its origins in … [Read more...]

East Hawaiian Sky, Surf and Shore

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[Click Image to Enlarge] Can you almost smell the salt air?  On this sporadically developed coast southeast of Hilo, and nearly as far from Honolulu as one can get on the main islands, a sense of wild Hawaii and a slower pace of life still resides in these parts, despite all the geological and meteorological action subtly at work here.  The surf pounds on lava deposits that flowed from the East … [Read more...]

Colorado Highway Spectacular

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[Click Image to Enlarge] Two major updraft areas, fronting thin but severe cores, spectacularly spanned half the sky in this little piece of the Colorado High Plains.  The left and main one curves around a substantial, if high-based, supercell, while the updraft at right erupted along the supercell's forward-flank/inflow interface.  This crazy light just lasted for a couple minutes in the "golden … [Read more...]

Horseshoe Storm Base

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Following an outflow boundary trailing from a previous, fast-hauling supercell in northeastern Kansas, we found a younger yet mature storm, this one somewhat slower-moving and (for now, not for long) surface-based.  The mesocyclone region of this supercell was at right, where a ragged wall cloud can be seen.  Warm light of the "Golden Hour" sifted all through the storm, which wasn't very dense.  … [Read more...]

Unwise Path

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A fast-moving, hail-hauling, gust-blasting, heavy-precipitation supercell is no place to go.  As such, the road this way was decidedly an unsafe route at this time, and we would have discouraged anyone northbound from continuing for another 10–15 minutes, at least.  This very thing, I've had to do on several occasions while photographing storms!  I hope to have saved those folks a great deal of … [Read more...]

Snow Pockets on Roadcut

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Cobbles and protrusions of buff to tan and gray limestone in the Ordovician Bromide formation, along a north-facing roadcut slope, offered ample pockets and crevices for lingering unmelted snow.  The cool, cloudy conditions, though above freezing, allowed one more day of this fascinatingly mottled scene before more melting in an above-freezing north wind would erase the white parts.  5 S Davis OK … [Read more...]