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Storm Season on the High Plains

2015-03-11 By Roger Edwards

Lightning past the Arcus Underside

As spring becomes summer, the peak period for thunderstorms on the High Plains brings not only the welcomed promise of beneficial rains, but a simultaneous offering of beauty and danger with every passing tempest.  This view was nearly 180° opposite a deeply textured part of the shelf cloud’s underbelly that was moving away, but the cores themselves moved abeam—neither closer nor farther—all while spitting these lightning strikes near their edges.

3 SSW Kimball NE (22 Jun 13) Looking NW
41.1924, -103.6786

Filed Under: Daytime Lightning, Gallery of Outflow Tagged With: Great Plains, landscapes, lightning, Nebraska, outflow, shelf cloud, 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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