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Stormy Badlands Evening

2020-09-18 By Roger Edwards

Stormy Badlands Evening

After a supercell I had observed merged with a growing cluster of convection to it east, the entire complex backbuilt, then ran away over the Badlands and into the twilight, leaving behind a beautifully chaotic, blue-hour sky with an occasional flicker of lightning for good measure.  This would become my camping spot for the night, filling interludes of sleeplessness with filtered to full light from a full moon, and the cool outflow breezes that carried the noises of crickets, distant coyotes, and the gentle tapping of sporadic raindrops on the vehicle roof.  The trailing “mushroom stem” strand of elevated convection was beginning to my west-northwest, and would continue off and on all night long, into an orange-painted rainy sunrise.

7 S Wall SD (4 Jun 20) Looking SSE
43.8899, -102.2264

Filed Under: Daytime Lightning Tagged With: Badlands, clouds, convection, geology, Great Plains, landscapes, lightning, South Dakota, storms, thunderstorms, twilight, Wall, 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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