The headlights of a vehicle emerges out of the fog in this view southbound along US Highway 281 just north of Lucy Creek in Lampasas County, Texas around 1:15 PM, Monday, November 21, 2011. Our family was enroute to Kerrville, Texas on this day. Conditions were mostly foggy in northern Texas all morning and into the afternoon.
It may not have been turkey with all the trimmings, but this vacation day at Galveston, Texas on Thanksgiving Day more than sufficed. A previously overcast morning was beginning to break up as this view of scattered cumulus clouds over the Gulf of Mexico shows. This image, located along the beach about two miles northeast of Seawall Boulevard and taken around 11:15 AM, November 24, 2011, looks southeast.
Looking very aurora-like in this five second exposure, fast moving clouds move across the southeast sky as seen from Alvin Drive in Kerrville, Texas around 7:10 PM on Monday, November 21, 2011. The clouds would bring rain and a little lightning in the coming hours. Silhouetted in the foreground are shrub-like cedar trees that dot the rocky terrain here. The bright object shining through the cloud cover at upper left is the planet Jupiter. This image was shot at f/4, 1600 ISO and 22mm focal length. Kerrville, where at this hour conditions were balmy at 73 degrees F, is about 40 miles NW of San Antonio.
The bright planet Jupiter (center, lower) peeks out from behind trees in this west view from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 3:15 AM, Friday, November 18, 2011. At top center is the Pleiades star cluster. Jupiter was shining at a -2.86 magnitude. This was a 15 second exposure at f/4, 800 ISO and an 18 mm focal length.
The Leonid meteor shower was nowhere to be seen here at Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa during prime viewing time around 3:15 AM, Friday, November 18, 2011. The nearby last quarter moon (upper right) bathed the night sky in its light, washing out meteor streaks. The shower, whose namesake comes from the constellation Leo the Lion, (left of the moon), appears to emanate from that point. Not overcome by the moon's glow was the 0.91 magnitude planet Mars (the lower bright object at the moon's 7 or 8 o'clock position). This image, which looks east, is a 20-second exposure at f/4, 800 ISO and 18mm focal length. The night was very breezy with the air temperature at 35 degrees F.
This view south along 335th Street
The rising sun created this painted look to an isolated group of cumulus clouds around 7:00 AM, Tuesday, November 15, 2011. This view looks east from Brentwood Drive NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Elsewhere, the sky was generally clear.
Not a wall cloud, but resembling a miniature version of one, this churning cloud was the product of very unstable air present in western Iowa on the afternoon of Saturday, April 9, 2011. The image was captured around 3:35 PM, about one hour and 40 minutes before a real wall cloud dropped a tornado SW of Mapleton, Iowa. This view taken from a U-Stop convenience store looks east from about .20-mile south of Interstate 80 and 1.5 miles north of Minden, Iowa. The sky soon cleared at this location and the sun came out. This was a storm initiation stop for our chase team. From here, we would proceed west, north, then northeast in pursuit of a significant tornado outbreak throughout the evening.
The rising sun tries to shine from behind low stratocumulus clouds in this view looking southeast from Noelridge Christian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 7:55 AM, Sunday, November 13, 2011. At right are higher altocumulus clouds. Just in front of the tree line at left is C Avenue NE.
Heavy rain showers and a faint streak of lightning is shown behind this large bank of clouds as seen from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 8:50 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011. The view looks northeast. Though the rain appears to be a drencher in the background, not one drop of rain fell at this vantage point as the unusual spring-like thunderstorm skirted east of town. The band of light at lower left was created from vehicle lights on Boyson Road NE, in this 15-second exposure at f/5, 800 ISO and 34mm focal length.
This late autumn sky as seen from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa had a very winter-like look to it around 4:42 PM, Thursday, November 10, 2011. These stratus clouds toward the west are weakly illuminated by a setting sun.
This unintentional image frame capture of the edge of a mesocyclone at left was the result of taking night video of a brilliant lightning display in NW Iowa around 8:50 PM, Saturday, April 9, 2011. The vivid lightning display was a testament to the power of a tornadic storm system occurring in this part of the state on this evening. The video, taken through the rear passenger-side window of our chase vehicle, was looking NNE along US Highway 71, a quarter-mile south of 280th Street and about 5.3 miles south of Early, Iowa. The meso produced a wedge tornado in the Early vicinity about ten minutes later. Lightning flashes allowed the details of this image to be seen.
A half-moon peeks out through a thin veil of cirrus fibratus clouds as it rises in the east as seen from the eastern border of Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa just after 4:30 PM, Friday, November 4, 2011. Technically, the moon's phase was a waxing gibbous, 9.45 days old, and at this moment was 17 degrees above the horizon.
A powerful cloud-to-cloud bolt of lightning discharges from beneath a low hanging cloud layer in the northeast sky as seen from Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 8:48 PM, Sunday, October 23, 2011. The autumn storm system, whose western edge is seen here, was moving left-to-right in the image and missed this location completely. Trees below the lightning bolt line Boyson Road NE. The image was created from a 7-second exposure at f/3.5, 800 ISO and an 18mm focal length. The air temperature at this time was a mild 63 degrees F.
Storm chaser and Iowa State University meteorology student Ethan Milius looks north from the parked chase car he was riding in along Keystone Avenue at 330th Street--about 8 miles south of Ida Grove, Iowa--around 8:10 PM, Saturday, April 9, 2011. In the distance at left is an intense rain shaft illuminated by a lightning bolt striking in front of it. Minutes later a tornado would form behind the rain shaft, maturing to a wedge shape then changing to a stove pipe as it moved northeast between Ida Grove and Arthur, Iowa. Here our chase team experienced strong sustained RFD winds and intense lightning displays. This image is a video frame capture.
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