Taking A Dim View Of The Countryside

Dense fog on the evening of Friday, January 20, 2017, provided an ideal, but not at all safe weather photography opportunity. The illuminated grain elevator images seen above were captured at 8:45 pm CST, and look west from Radio Road northeast of Marion, Iowa, about .9-mile east of Highway 13. Besides visibility being reduced to less than a quarter-mile, the dirt/gravel road (seen at lower left) was becoming a sticky, muddy mess from light falling rain, and made driving a challenge. I had to back up (with flashers on) past the grain elevators into a driveway to turn around and return home. Weather conditions at this moment were: Temperature: 37 degrees F, dew point: 37 degrees, humidity 100%, wind direction: east, wind speed: 7 mph, visibility: less than a quarter mile, vertical visibility: 100 feet. Images are 8 second exposures at f/9, ISO 250. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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Front Before The Freeze

A distinct line of dark altocumulus clouds form a front in the south and west sky as seen in this panoramic image captured from the grounds at Noelridge Christian Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa at 11:20 am on Sunday, January 15, 2017. The line was in advance of a large area of freezing rain which covered much of the Midwest. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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New Mexico Wall Cloud

Another image from my May 16, 2016 storm chase in NE New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. This image shows a low-based wall cloud organizing under a growing supercell as seen from Highway 406 at A081 (Seneca Road, background) in northeast New Mexico. Camera looks ENE at 3:03 pm MDT. The storm is moving away and to the right in the image, toward the nearby panhandle of Oklahoma. A tornado would form from this cell about a half-hour later, near the town of Felt, located about 18.7 miles to the southeast. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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