Michael,
Boring clouds in Maryland, exciting clouds in Colorado. I’ve been collecting clouds since we arrived here. Here you will find my latest best dozen cloud shots. In the past months there were several phantasmagorical sky views I couldn’t shoot for various reasons, like driving 70 mph down a crowded road (not being a Miller), absent camera, or discharged battery (sob!). But eventually new cloud opportunities will come along. The weather here is always changing–mostly for the better!
–rakkity
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I think Rakkity and the rest of the blog would enjoy this.
Pesky Godson
michael
#3799 reminds me of the Grateful Dead.
adam
Beautiful pix, Rakk, and thanks for the sidebar, PG! Nicely melded post, BM! Those wave clouds are amazing! You see lines of cloud and blue skies when fronts come through, but I’ve never seen anything close to that.
But unless I misunderstood, that marina is supposed to be in Iowa … ? How so? And funny how recent experience has me think how much it looks like Boothbay.
Jennifer
I think the third one captured the results of a cross between a unicorn and a heffalump quite well.
I feel sure that I have seen equally exciting clouds in Massachusetts, but have not had the resources (time, equipment, ability) to capture them on film. Plus, these clouds were probably even nicer in real life.
rakkity
Those Iowa clouds seem show motions in at least 3 cardinal directions, probably because they are at different heights, and there is enormous shear. Tornado weather?
In my shots, that dark cloud in #3799 (Grateful Dead) was moving in a different direction than the colored cloud, but alas no movie.
Doing a little googling, I found this movie of Boulder clouds moving east, north and south at more or less the same time.
el Kib
Simultaneous x-y-z axis air can’t be that rare — it’s how hot air balloons get around. In Albuquerque they call it “the box” — they can take off headed east, rise and head back west, descend to where they started …
rakkity
And birds surely know how to exploit such air systems for maximum speed and efficiency.