A wild run of asperatus formations in low to middle levels rippled over the First American Museum and downtown's Devon Tower, ahead of a strong gust front that dragged a ragged arcus cloud across the city. This weird melange of clouds darkened the skies and the landscape ominously, but fortunately for the populace, only strong but subsevere winds and heavy rain followed. Oklahoma City OK (1 Jun … [Read more...]
More Direct Sunrise Color
One of the year's most spectacular sunrises happened not in the Great Plains, but surprisingly, along the Maine coast. This was a protracted event too, much to the delight of all eyewitnesses. The pre-sunrise indirect colors hinted at the direct red brilliance to come; then it went orange and offered this. Small, dot-like cloud elements at upper left are just the sunlit lower tips of … [Read more...]
Lower Tangent Arc
We were packing the car and fixing to leave Cadillac Mountain, in Acadia National Park, where we had spent a few morning hours overlooking the Atlantic Ocean and Maine coastline. I happened to look up to see a vivid lower tangent arc quickly appearing below the sun, grabbed the camera, and did a boulder dash back up past the summit for this shot. This tangent arc had shallow curvature because … [Read more...]
Third Thunderous Thrust at the Truck Stop
Traffic on I-35 raced this way and that under the bridge at lower right, heading to and from a high-based thunderstorm that spit out several delightfully loud and photogenic CGs, also including these. It was a nice way to finish a long day's chase, after driving three hours north to see a small tornado in southern Kansas, and then observing at close range a separate, arguably tornadic supercell … [Read more...]
Spear the Moon
An already promising, early-stage sunset sky of golden cirrus fibratus (above shaded altostratus) became weird when a fresh contrail appeared to spear the waxing crescent moon! The plane is a faint dot at the left tip of the "spear". Of course, this was a fantastic, low-probability, coincidental superposition, thanks to a Boston-to-Paris flight I noticed on a tracking app. A lot of aviation … [Read more...]
Storm Route: Edwards
Prior convection to the south, near the Kansas/Oklahoma line, looked promising briefly, but too many cells erupted too close to each other, and things got messy in a hurry. With a little daylight left, a newer storm erupting just a couple counties to the northwest near the dryline, and no blocking clouds apparent in visuals or satellite imagery in the distant west-northwest, I gambled that an … [Read more...]
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