Top 10 in '16

PHOTOS FROM STORM-INTERCEPT TRIPS

by Roger Edwards

Continuing a tradition, I've uploaded a gallery of ten favorite photographs from my 2016 storm-observing trips across the Plains. [This doesn't include other weather or non-weather images that I shot while not on storm chases.] Even though we saw just a couple of tornadoes, this was another year of High Plains storm structure. Choosing only 10 favorites is hard--they could have been arranged in any other order on another day. I've picked these completely on my own taste, for their beauty and/or uniqueness. Captions are minimal, so that the photos can speak for themselves. Enjoy, and thanks for stopping by...

    ===== Roger =====

10

A cluster of hailstones flung outward in the RFD of a large, wet, violent Oklahoma tornado crossing the road.

9

Symbolic leanings in central Montana.

8

Sculpted arcus on the wide-open northern High Plains, Winnett, MT.

7

Wild night sky near Sayre, OK.

6

Deeply textured supercell base, wall cloud and possibly tornadic "meso on the ground", Roy, MT.

5

Another wild night sky, east of Norman, OK.

4

Eerily illuminated severe storm approaching rapidly, Glasgow, MT.

3

Improbable yet beautiful tornado, Connerville, OK.

2

Convergence at Coffee Creek (MT).

1

"A Springtime Country Estate" (Sulphur, OK: violent tornado with wildflowers). [This photo became a juried NWC Bienalle finalist.]

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