SkyPix

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

White Is Red

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Multiple heavy-precipitation supercells rolled over Lubbock and vicinity the night before, with other storms dumping copious rains northward toward Plainview.  Those deluges all caused extensive and deep flooding that closed Interstate 27, along with several other highways and streets.  All that water had to drain somewhere, and a good bit of it roared off the Caprock into the White River, which … [Read more...]

Menacing Grand Island

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Rolling right down the central Plains' noted Lincoln Highway (US-30), this previously tornadic supercell had taken a long break from any serious attempts at more tornado action.  Then it produced a brief, faint "landspout" (nonmesocyclonic tornado) away from the main updraft area, followed by this low-hanging, fairly strongly rotating wall cloud.  The problem?  This reorganization was occurring … [Read more...]

Booms in the Night

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Late night, on the way home from a forecast shift, featured an elevated multicell storm cluster flashing furiously, hurling forked cloud-to-ground strokes across the semi-rural square miles of east Norman.  It was well worth the stop, not only to observe and photograph, but to listen.  Sound took many seconds to cross the miles, rendering anticipation after each flurry of flashes for the … [Read more...]

Supercell behind Bluebonnets

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Rarely does a North Texas HP Stormzilla shed much of its intense precipitation field and revert back to a more classical supercell form.  This one did, giving us a great backdrop to a little hillside field of bluebonnets, the state flower.  Intermittent, ragged wall clouds and areas of broad rotation appeared under the base, but never anything sufficiently tight or well-organized to give me cause … [Read more...]

Chuck and a Green Core

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The greenish core of a menacing HP (heavy-precipitation) supercell looms over the Texas High Plains, behind a ragged arcus cloud fronting the rear-flank core.  To the right, a rotating wall cloud wraps up in a front-flank outflow notch.  I almost never include people in shots on purpose, but an exception was worthwhile here.  To the left, renowned storm observer and atmospheric scientist Dr. Chuck … [Read more...]

Sunset Sky Seeing Southward

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The most photogenic and inspiring part of many a storm-observing day is after the storms have peaked and moved on: sunset time.   Wildly wonderful to the west and easy on the eyes to the east, the sky was simply soothing to the south too, where backsheared anvil material and its mammatus, along with scuddy fractus clouds and midlevel altocumuli below, caught varying brilliances and tones of the … [Read more...]