Clouds

Doing my run last weekend around the lake a few times and was digging this setup, only had cell phone cam, messing around on lightroom with color filters on B&W
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Same day, this beauty of an old dog was just relaxing, soaking the sun. Later, when I came back with the real camera the good light was gone and the clouds had settled in and I noticed the dog get up- three legs, brand new shaved fur and large scar where his leg insertion would have been. Poor guy was chilling out because he presumably just lost that leg
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Was looking at the cumulus yesterday and saw a band of iridescence, it was subtle, but way higher up in the cirrus, there wasn't enough cirrus to see a ring + the lower level clouds were in the way. It was easier to see with the sunnies on, took a photo of it and did not play around with color levels, so that's the subtle band of purplish green, this was around about 8:30 am so sun at a good angle still...
 
Just found this excellent thread, and I’ve always been a cloud fan. No pictures but some years back we were flying home from NY and I awoke over the Dakotas around midnight. We were well above this raging thunderstorm. For an hour or so it looked like the apocalypse, huge bombs going off under the clouds. Very dramatic. The rest of the plane slept through it.
Some years back I was the surveyor for the Oki Newcastle project and on a hot sunny day we were tromping around on a site meeting visit. The lead earthworks contractor looks up at the only cloud and says “thunderhead, we’ll have lightning soon.” Yeah right, I’m thinking. About an hour later….
Just FYI, dirt contractors necessarily watch weather closely. Farmers too I’m sure.
 
I just returned from working for Tempest Tours which is an Arlington based storm chasing tour company. I've done this annually for about 15 years (minus covid). We had a really active tour with some sort of chase occurring 6 out of the 8 chase days and covered ground from the Nebraska Sandhills to the Rio Grande near Comstock, Texas. It was a shit ton of driving - about 4000 miles. The highlight for me was probably a week ago Sunday in the Sandhills where we got a glimpse of a giant wedge tornado. We also watched a supercell form on Coahuila's Del Burro Mountains and cross the Rio Grande into Texas (illegally of course ha ha). At any rate, lots of pretty storms along with the cool landscape of the Great Plains.

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Twilight supercell near Hereford, Texas

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Central Kansas sunset (NE of Wichita)

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Del Burro supercell crossing the Rio Grande near Comstock, Texas (it later produced 90 mph winds that knocked over a semi truck on Highway 90)

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Large, obscured ghostly tornado in the Nebraska Sandhills near Hyannis. We saw a half dozen funnel clouds as well - that was probably my favorite day.

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Our position (blue circle) relative to the above tornado.

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Roger Edwards (retired Storm Prediction Center forecaster and our other guide) called this a "weirdnato" because he couldn't figure out how it was formed (near Shallowater Texas)

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Pretty mammatus display in West Texas.

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Our group included guests from Wales, the Czech Republic and Australia.
 
RRSmith said:
I just returned from working for Tempest Tours which is an Arlington based storm chasing tour company. I've done this annually for about 15 years (minus covid). We had a really active tour with some sort of chase occurring 6 out of the 8 chase days and covered ground from the Nebraska Sandhills to the Rio Grande near Comstock, Texas. It was a shit ton of driving - about 4000 miles. The highlight for me was probably a week ago Sunday in the Sandhills where we got a glimpse of a giant wedge tornado. We also watched a supercell form on Coahuila's Del Burro Mountains and cross the Rio Grande into Texas (illegally of course ha ha). At any rate, lots of pretty storms along with the cool landscape of the Great Plains.

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Twilight supercell near Hereford, Texas

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Central Kansas sunset (NE of Wichita)

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Del Burro supercell crossing the Rio Grande near Comstock, Texas (it later produced 90 mph winds that knocked over a semi truck on Highway 90)

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Large, obscured ghostly tornado in the Nebraska Sandhills near Hyannis. We saw a half dozen funnel clouds as well - that was probably my favorite day.

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Our position (blue circle) relative to the above tornado.

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Roger Edwards (retired Storm Prediction Center forecaster and our other guide) called this a "weirdnato" because he couldn't figure out how it was formed (near Shallowater Texas)

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Pretty mammatus display in West Texas.

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Our group included guests from Wales, the Czech Republic and Australia.
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Holy cow!!! Great pics, thanks for sharing!
 
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