SkyPix

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

Snowy Tangle

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If somehow the snows ever fell in the densest jungles of South America or Africa, it probably would look something like this.  Then again, any event with that result would be cataclysmic climatically for the world as a whole!  So let's just keep this real:  the thick tangle of woodlands and underbrush that typifies the Eastern Crosstimbers of Oklahoma.   Amidst steady north  wind, sticky wet snow … [Read more...]

Twin Forks

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Blasting the could-ground gap just a couple seconds apart, these two furious, staccato discharges left a stereophonic cacophony of booms and rumbles announcing their explosive presence long after their light was gone.  Even closer electrical activity soon would send me back to the vehicle and out of the area in duly safe haste. 5 N Brookville KS (8 May 21) Looking WNW 38.8421, -97.8736 … [Read more...]

Sunset Altocumulus Undulatus

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Brilliant Oklahoma sundowns are nothing new in general, but every one is unique and marvelous as its own composition.  Here, in one gloriously tri-toned sector of the sunset sky, a sharp little field of altocumulus undulatus clouds caught the redder latter parts of the sunset chromatic progression, while the earlier yellows still dominated the distance — all with twilight blue above.  Ephemeral … [Read more...]

Sunset Sky Arch

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As the last of the non-thunderstorm mammatus formations dispersed (upper left), the emphasis of illumination in a zoomed sector of the sky shifted to an uncommonly symmetric cloud arch.  It was nearly as transient as the colors themselves, but nonetheless, a feature uncannily timed for the very best of the sunset light to flow through.  I'll accept that, with gratitude! Norman OK (3 Mar 22) … [Read more...]

Non-Thunderstorm Mammatus at Sunset

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Sunset light cast aglow a field of middle/upper-tropospheric convective clouds and their cirriform effluent, to dazzling effect.  Among the lit components:  some "thunderless mammatus" clouds, which were more ghostly and wispy than the well-defined forms we often see accompanying intense, deep storms.  Within a few minutes, the light and fluid flow would yield a very different and equally … [Read more...]

Foggy Steam Plumes

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As of when I'm posting this page in early March 2022, this week marks the 150th anniversary of Yellowstone National Park, signed into official recognition with the quill pen of President U.S. Grant.  Yellowstone was the first national park in the United States, and in the world.  The park is so vast in size and variety that no one scene adequately encapsulates its beauty and scope.  Still, this … [Read more...]