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Sheared Cores and Mammatus

2022-06-19 By Roger Edwards

Sheared Cores and Mammatus

Well behind a surface cold front, a band of midday showers formed along the elevated frontal surface, tapping some residual moisture, and rooted in the lower middle troposphere.  Individual showers raced off to the northeast, nearly along the axis of the convective band.  Their rain shafts got so strongly tilted both from the parent showers’ fast movement aloft, and stiff northerly to northwesterly winds in the near-surface layer.  Despite the meager buoyancy, it still was enough for the back-side anvil of the complex to produce a good amount of “thunderless mammatus” too.  This was a fascinating process to occupy both the right (appreciative, artistic) and left (scientific, analytic) brains, while early upon the long drive back from a few days of storm observing in the central and northern High Plains.

4 E Alliance NE (14 Jun 22) Looking SE
42.0914, -102.7943

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: Alliance, clouds, convection, Great Plains, landscapes, mammatus, Nebraska, rain, 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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