The Climate Prediction Center recently released its seasonal outlook update. The strange and mild winter rolls on as seen HERE.
Decatur Illinois USA Photographer, Artist, Weather Observer
Friday, January 27, 2012
Ice Spikes
In spite of a terrible cold at the time of this post and not really feeling it, I didn't want to allow this morning's phenomena to go undocumented. More info on their formation can be found HERE.
The Climate Prediction Center recently released its seasonal outlook update. The strange and mild winter rolls on as seen HERE.
The Climate Prediction Center recently released its seasonal outlook update. The strange and mild winter rolls on as seen HERE.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Boring Tuesday
Seems like those mornings I actually have time to do anything, conditions aren't favorable for shooting much of anything. Anyways, while puttering around in the middle of Shelby county till the places I needed to open did...
Later that night I rolled the dice on another solar storm that peaked before the sun went down but aurora forecasting isn't a perfect science so I tried anyways. No luck of course which was no surprise but wasn't going to let the session go to waste without putting something up. Did encounter a half eaten coyote carcass with my flashlight near to where I was shooting that was a tad unsettling.
Later that night I rolled the dice on another solar storm that peaked before the sun went down but aurora forecasting isn't a perfect science so I tried anyways. No luck of course which was no surprise but wasn't going to let the session go to waste without putting something up. Did encounter a half eaten coyote carcass with my flashlight near to where I was shooting that was a tad unsettling.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Freezing Fog / Thunderstorms
I don't usually get into discussing other parts of the country but it is safe to say few in the Southern US will forget the January 22nd into the 23rd overnight. Beginning here on Sunday morning, the day started off fairly typical for the year as we saw dense freezing fog around the region. Occurring as result of warm air advecting from the S and interacting with local surface temperatures in the middle 20's, the end product was one of icy tranquility.
Turning attention towards evening, cells erupting across the deep south quickly went severe and then tornado warned. This particular screen capture shows two mesocyclones with strong rotation and likely producing tornadoes. The dots are storm chaser acquaintances out on Facebook whose well being I was a concerned with at the time. Velocity and reflectivity images are from the RadarScope for iPhone app.
Storms would eventually develop up this way along an advancing squall line but not to the degree of severity as elsewhere. Upon passage of the line and the associated heavy rain, I set up and managed to capture a few of the intense lightning bursts occurring in the stratiform precip region or basically on the backside of the storm. Per the blown out image, I did not see it directly as I was focused elsewhere but for what I did observe, I doubt I would have been able to compensate as it was a multiple return stroke clearly frying something. Radar image is from the time of the shots with my location as blue icon.
Eventually things would quiet down here at which point I turned attention to the ongoing situation in Alabama where unfortunately, numerous violent tornadoes would develop. Those poor people just can't get a break.
Turning attention towards evening, cells erupting across the deep south quickly went severe and then tornado warned. This particular screen capture shows two mesocyclones with strong rotation and likely producing tornadoes. The dots are storm chaser acquaintances out on Facebook whose well being I was a concerned with at the time. Velocity and reflectivity images are from the RadarScope for iPhone app.
Storms would eventually develop up this way along an advancing squall line but not to the degree of severity as elsewhere. Upon passage of the line and the associated heavy rain, I set up and managed to capture a few of the intense lightning bursts occurring in the stratiform precip region or basically on the backside of the storm. Per the blown out image, I did not see it directly as I was focused elsewhere but for what I did observe, I doubt I would have been able to compensate as it was a multiple return stroke clearly frying something. Radar image is from the time of the shots with my location as blue icon.
Eventually things would quiet down here at which point I turned attention to the ongoing situation in Alabama where unfortunately, numerous violent tornadoes would develop. Those poor people just can't get a break.
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