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Today let's post a nuclear sunrise or sunset. Please pile on. Sunrise from Mather Point, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ (a break in stratocumulus clouds). Sunset, Lake County, IL (Altocumulus clouds). Smoke from forest fires creates incredible color, at Great Salt Lake, UT. That is...

I didn't do much photography for various reasons this summer, so the pickings are pretty slim. If I find any more, I will post them. 1) I saw this while returning home from a restaurant this summer. This was heavy rainfall associated with a microburst in a monsoon storm. 2) A monsoon...

My wife and I ae finally home. It was quite the Odessey. We flew Southwest from Phoenix, AZ to John Wayne Airport in Orange Couty in CA to be with our daughter's family for Christmas. The fun began when we tried to come home on Monday the 26th of December. We woke up and looked at our flight...

Not today. I am hung up at the airport with a canceled flight. It looks like we will rent a car to get home. Let you know when I get home.

I will be traveling over Christmas and will not have access to my files from December 21 - December 26. This is my card to all on Focal World. There are a few here who I would like to single out for being so supportive over the time I have been on this site. Jim Fox: Thank you for all of...

Today's subject is impending storms. Find your best and pile on. Here are mine. Approaching storm over Mt Edith Cavell, Jasper National Park, Canada Gust front over Sedona, AZ Frontal Boundary of a Midwest Storm.

I took this image in my backyard a couple of summers ago.

Today's project will be images where clouds are the featured subject. Please pile on. Altocumulus clouds over the Antelope Valley in CA. Altocumulus clouds over the Mingus Mountains, AZ

This topic should create a plethora of posts. How about posting a couple of your most spectacular sunrises or sunsets. Here are a few of my favorites. Saguaro Cactus sunset. Factory Butte Sunrise. Mesa Arch

I had a very busy week last week and couldn't post until today. We went to my daughter's home in CA for Thanksgiving. While there I managed to leave my cell phone in a Starbuck's and couldn't get it back until Sunday morning, then spent all day yesterday just getting back home. So, I have...

I took a bunch of panoramas in Sedona the other day and this is the one I liked best.

I have finally gotten out to photograph some fall color. This is the best fall color I have seen at this location in many years. The cloudy skies help to saturate the colors. I am going out again this evening to get some low sunset light.

I just uncovered this aerial image from the archives.

It is time for some interesting meteorology phenomena today. If you have some, please pile on. If you don't have some just pile on with interesting cloud images. Here is the basic identification chart. This was a very cold day (well below zero) and thus the fog was comprised of ice...

Sorry about this being so late. Monday was my wife's birthday and I have been very busy around the house lately. The subject of this week's meteorology post is cumulonimbus clouds. This is a towering cumulus cloud that produces a lot of rain and usually lightning and sometimes hail. The...

I know I am late for this edition of Meteorology Monday, but I had lots of work to complete around the house today. We had a lot of the walls freshly painted and we had to put all of the furniture and wall hangings etc. back in place and it took the whole day to get that done. So here is the...

It is again time for some cloud images. Last week we did altocumulus. Let's do a popular variation of that cloud group. Today we will do altocumulus lenticularis. These clouds typically form over the tops of high mountains, especially volcanoes. These are caused by strong winds being...

It's Monday and it is time for clouds in landscapes or skyscapes. Here is the general cloud classification chart to help with your identification. Notice that clouds appear smaller at higher altitudes like cumulus (low), altocumulus (moderate), and cirrocumulus (high). My contribution today...

Jim has asked me to start a continuing Monday thread about clouds and weather. Each week I will identify a specific cloud type or weather event with an image and ask contributors to add an image depicting the same type of cloud in a landscape or cloudscape of their own. Hopefully this will be...

I had family here last weekend so I'm late with this one. Today's subject is pollinators doing their job. Please p[ile on with your flower and pollinator images. Honeybee nectaring on a water lily. Hummingbird nectaring on a Salvia greegii. Black-eyed Susan with approaching hoverfly...