Category Archives: Sky

Apr8

Weekend Sky # 95 – Thunderheads

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Weekend Sky # 95 – Thunderheads

Weekend Sky #95 – April 8th

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This was several years ago looking out from our front yard. It’s a huge white and dark gray cloud I believe they call a thunderhead. Usually there are storms below. These were a few miles from us though, but it makes a pretty picture with the dark blue sky behind it.

They are actually called Cumulonimbus. They tower very tall, and are capable of producing super cells with tornadoes, large hail, and severe winds.

We have these mostly in the spring around May.

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Mar25

Sun Dog – Weekend Sky # 93

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Sun Dog – Weekend Sky # 93

Weekend Sky #93 – March 25th

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I did take this photo a long time ago. Can’t remember exactly when, but I posted it before in 2017. I like aiming my phone camera up at the sun. I can’t see what I get until I look, as the sun is too bright to stare at.

This one turned out really pretty!

A sun dog is formed from ice crystals in the atmosphere, appearing as either a bright or muted light to the side/sides of the sun. Here’s the wikipedia information on the topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

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Mar22

Painting in Color – One Liner Wednesday

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Painting in Color – One Liner Wednesday

One-Liner Wednesday – Like one of your French girls…

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Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

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A rainbow in a dark cloudy sky, and a vivid twilight of dark orange and yellow sky, with a bare, black  branched tree silhouetted at sunset.

 

 

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Feb27

Weekend Sky # 89 – Yesterday’s Dust Storm Photos 2/26/23

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Weekend Sky # 89 – Yesterday’s Dust Storm Photos 2/26/23

https://hammadrais.wordpress.com/2023/02/25/weekend-sky-89-feb-25th/

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Sunday – 5:38 to 5:51 p.m.

Here are some of my photos: These are exactly as I took them, no filters or touch ups at all.  As usual the dirt was so thick we couldn’t see across the lake to the houses or the road. If there were cars driving, we sure couldn’t see them. It gets dangerous!

These are some photos people tweeted about our dust storm yesterday. We had hurricane force winds of 77 miles per hour, (123.9 km/h) with blowing dust all day. We’ll have more today but not quite as bad.

I did see a poor Canada Goose trying to fly – it was trying to go straight, but the wind was blowing it sideways. I’ve seen birds before trying to fly in our wind storms. It looks like they are stuck in one spot while flapping their wings because the wind is so strong it won’t let them go forward.

To see lots of photos around town and the area click on the bottom where it says ‘read 131 replies’ (more keep coming in)

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Feb18

Sandstorm – Weekend Sky # 88

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Sandstorm – Weekend Sky #88

Weekend Sky #88 – Feb 18th

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This is a sky photo & blog I posted on January 30, 2021. It shows how much blowing dust we have around here this time of year.

This past week February 14 & 15, 2023, our sky looked the same. We have these sandstorms quite often, some worse than others, some are actual Haboobs, and those are scary and intense.Visibility on most all our dust storms is low, and the wind is so high we have high wind warnings, like last week for several days.

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Today’s weather report: Dust

We are having a sand storm this morning. The sky is brown with all the dust up in the sky. My phone says visibility is only 1,323 YARDS! Expecting wind gusts to 60 mph, too.

This photo is looking out our back door toward the lake, with the barely seen houses on the other side. Sometimes the dust is so thick you can’t see the houses.

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“Dust in the Wind”, by Kansas

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Feb5

Weekend Sky # 87

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Weekend Sky # 87

Weekend Sky #87 – Feb 4th

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Just a couple of photos of the full moon last night. It was 6:42 p.m. Taken with my phone, and not very good in focus or detail, and the moon was very pretty to look at. My phone camera didn’t like it much though. haha

The first I took through the glass in the back door (I did enhance the blue color). the streak is just a reflection of something inside I think.

The second photo I did step out on the back porch and it looks a bit clearer this way.

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