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Rush Sparks and Flash Flood 2

2023-12-28 By Roger Edwards

Rush Sparks and Flash Flood 2

Elevated thunderstorms, built upon one outflow surge after another, continued to light up the sky across west-central Kansas.  The storms fired spidery crawler lightning this way and that, to the delight of a shivering but satisfied storm photographer and meteorologist.  Sometimes it’s hard to imagine how an elevated updraft as small as the one at right could produce so much electricity, but the buoyancy aloft nicely straddled both a warm-cloud inflow region, and ideal icing layers for charge separation leading to lightning generation.  The result:  every few seconds, similar yet unique blasts of vast illumination aloft.

9 S Rush Center KS (9 May 23) Looking SE
38.3391, -99.3056

Filed Under: Floods, Night Lightning Tagged With: clouds, convection, farms, floods, fractocumulus, Great Plains, Kansas, landscapes, lightning, nighttime, Rush Center, scud, storms, thunderstorms, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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