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Texas Thunderhead

2015-01-13 By Roger

Sunlit Texas Thunderhead

This explosion of Lone Star convective power dominated the southern sky, partly making me dream I were beneath, but ultimately keeping me glad to see such an impressive thunderhead unfold from this vantage. This storm thrust skyward a gigantic convective mass spreading far above the level of the cumulonimbus anvil that was backshearing toward the near right (WNW). The sheer volume of overshooting material that this storm was pumping into the stratosphere might be the greatest I have seen, among hundreds of supercells witnessed over two decades of storm observing. [Beneath was a heavy-precipitation (HP) hail machine that turned hard to the south off an outflow boundary, and also spawned a couple of rain-wrapped tornadoes.] Every season brings new discoveries and at least one or two skyscapes that blow me away, and this was one for 2007. Framing the storm beyond a classical Great Plains silhouette turned a meteorological wonderment into a photographic pleasure.

2 NW Dalhart TX (2 Jun 7) Looking SSE
36.0846, -102.551

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas, The Majestic Supercell Tagged With: backshear, cumulonimbus, Great Plains, overshoot, storms, supercells, Texas, Texas Panhandle, 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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