Not Ready For This!

Autumn took a turn for the worse in the Cedar Rapids, Iowa metro area on the night of October 28-29, 2019 with a total of 3.3 inches of snow falling, and just two days before Halloween. Images above and below were captured by my iPhone 6 Plus at 8:01 am CDT, and look east from Progress Drive at Martha's Way in Hiawatha. Temperature was 23 degrees F. Many smaller trees, still laden with leaves, drooped under the weight of the snow flocking. Fog also formed in the early morning hours of October 29. More snow was soon to follow, starting on the afternoon/evening of Wednesday, October 30.

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Minnesota Vacation Leftovers

Altocumulus clouds and a tranquil shoreline of Lake Superior at Grand Marais created a mirror-like reflection on the evening of Saturday, August 31, 2019. The structure at right is the Coast Guard building.

9:17 pm CDT, Saturday, August 31, 2019. Looking southwest at Milky Way as seen from the Lake Superior shoreline at Grand Marais. Image is a ten second exposure at f/2.8, ISO 8000 and 11mm focal length.

9:58 pm. Same view. 13 second exposure at f/2.8, ISO 6400 and 11mm focal length. The Milky Way's core is flanked by the planets Saturn (magnitude 0.32, left), and Jupiter (magnitude -2.21).

6:54 am CDT, Monday, September 2, 2019. Brilliant sunrise at Grand Marais harbor.

7:08 am. Pastel morning skies over Lake Superior at Grand Marais harbor. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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Weather Forecasters

The image above and the two below show an extensive altocumulus cloud formation during the evening of Thursday, September 26, 2019. The three images were captured from 6:18-6:24 pm CDT and look west over Bowman Woods Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The formation preceded showers in the area, which arrived a few hours later. Nikon D7200 DSLR camera.

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