The field of late-spring/early-summer flowers in east-central Texas is obvious here. In storm-observing jargon, a “whale’s mouth” is the turbulently textured, upward-sloping underside of a convectively produced shelf cloud, in this case accompanying a rear-flank downdraft that trailed a scuddy supercell. This is how one can find wildflowers in a whale’s mouth! With scenery like this, the nearby town of Fairfield seems fairly named. The scenic frontal view of a farther-north area on the storm complex can be seen here, near Corsicana.
2 NE Fairfield TX (10 Jun 23) Looking NE
31.7535, -96.1374