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South Dakota Storm Stages

2025-12-21 By Roger Edwards

South Dakota Storm Stages
Multiple stages of storm development populate this shot.  In the middle, a robust towering cumulus with congestus builds under the shadow of mature storms’ collective anvil, bearing mammatus.  That tower is surrounded by a smaller, shear-tilted cumulus updraft in front, and still smaller pieces of barely convective fractocumuli.  Meanwhile, an even deeper tower in the distant, sunlit background develops an anvil as a young cumulonimbus, later becoming a supercell in its own right.  So did the shadowed, foreground activity, albeit briefly before being undercut by outflow from the pre-existing storms.  All this took place on a moving stage that shifted southeastward from this area, the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, southeastward into the adjoining Nebraska Sandhills. 

2 W Oglala SD (1 Jul 25) Looking ESE
43.1857, -102.7789

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: clouds, convection, cumulonimbus, cumulus, cumulus congestus, flora, Great Plains, landscapes, mammatus, Oglala, South Dakota, storms, thunderstorms, towering cumulus

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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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