Altocumulus clouds passing in front of the moon split its light into crepuscular rays, visible as well to eye as to camera exposure, thanks to the very rural setting devoid of more than isolated artificial light. 10 S North Platte NE (23 Jun 10) Looking SW 40.9889, -100.764 … [Read more...]
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Crepuscular and Curvy Contrail
Less than 40 feet but more than 13 years from where I shot my archetypical image of crepuscular rays, a late-summer sunset beamed past clouds unseen in the northwest that cut its fading plane of light into rays. A separate contrail no longer caught the pink light, the western of its two segments standing out well against the warmly lit background. Norman OK (9 Sep 16) Looking NW … [Read more...]
Crepuscular Rays
The waning day's shrinking cumulus clouds accentuated intense crepuscular rays in the western skies of central Oklahoma. The diverging "fan" of these rays is just an illusion; they actually are parallel to each other, as are the rays' manifestations on the opposite horizon (postcrepusculars). This is my archetypical example, but check out all the other crepuscular rays in SkyPix! Norman OK … [Read more...]
Splitting Colorful Crepusculars
After a disappointing storm day, when we seemed to either pick each "wrong" storm or miss each "right" one, the atmosphere offered a small consolation in the form of yet another unique sunset scene. "Unique" may be a paradoxical adjective for sunsets, since all properly are described as such; in sunset scenes, uniqueness is ubiquitous! Regardless of semantic pretzel-twisting, the splitting of … [Read more...]
Multi-Outflow Sundown
Outflow from two thunderstorm complexes already had settled in over the Edwards County region. That situaiton didn't prevent yet another storm (an elevated supercell) from forming to the right (north) in the sunset hour. Its shelf cloud trailed far past the rear-flank updraft area, and can be seen here in the sky foreground, blocking part of some crepuscular rays and the anvil cirrus. One … [Read more...]
Spiral at Sundown
Shortly after splitting off a gaudy set of crepuscular rays and twisting itself deeply skyward over the sun, this slim bit lively supercell's structure show was far from finished, with an inflow tail spiraling wildly around, then into, a base shaped rather like a soda can. Before altogether dying under the anvil of a newer one, this storm would be a gift to keep on giving. 7 S Manchester OK (13 … [Read more...]
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