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Towering Cumulus on the Dryline

2020-11-01 By Roger Edwards

Towering Cumulus on the Dryline

This is a much different breed of towering cumulus than the maritime version from nine months later and over a thousand miles southeast.  Here, unlike on a land-breeze circulation, the low-middle level flow was strongly sheared, causing the tilt.  The cloud looks less robust than the previous example because it was drawing in dry air from west of the dryline, on which it formed.  This dry entrainment ultimately killed the whole cloud by evaporation.  A nice arrangement of crepuscular rays surrounds it, too.

4 SE Guthrie TX (13 May 89) Looking W
33.5882, -100.273

Filed Under: Mini Cloud Atlas Tagged With: clouds, convection, crepuscular rays, Great Plains, Guthrie, Texas, towering cumulus, 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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