Mike Hollingshead
Finally, I see something worth a darn! A wild guess says anything else I see on today's chase won't top this morning's fog madness. I shot night scenes in the badlands last night, till 1:30 a.m. I notice fog forming and think, crap, I need to be here at sunrise. So I go to my $100/night "econo"lodge(wth). I sleep two and a half hours and get up at 5:30, flying south to the badlands landscape again.
The low fog with the rising sun there was really pretty cool, but nothing like what was to come. I noticed thicker low fog to the north moving south and thought, cool, that will help thicken up my thin fog some. Well, lol, it went completely nuts. It was associated with a storm coming out of Rapid City which was lighting up the morning sky itself. It hits the cliffs and goes up, up, and up some more...shaping itself like a freaking peak itself. I can't tell how high this got on the pics but looks like 5 times the height of the badlands peaks. The wall facing me had these mean looking gashes in it carved by the cliffs as it went up. Looks a bit like those morning glory things, but meaner and over the badlands. I was viewing/shooting this from the higher lookout straight south of Wall SD. When it hit, the winds must have been 60mph up there. That was really rather spooky. Almost zero visiblity with clouds racing by and over the cliffs.
I'll try and post some pics, but doubt I can get smart ftp to work on here since I couldn't last chase.
Oh and the big horn sheep were on the cliffs during this walking near the top. They had to be having a blast once that hit.
Edit: Little bigger ones below now. The rest of the day has largely sucked....as my foot severely cramps...damn(too much climbing around and not enough sleep). BTW, those really aren't low clouds that came in and looked like that, but just a lot of low thick fog that climbed vertical at the hills. Just before these it was all flat filling in the valleys.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-6-18-5090.jpg
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-6-18-5095.jpg
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-6-18-5097.jpg
The low fog with the rising sun there was really pretty cool, but nothing like what was to come. I noticed thicker low fog to the north moving south and thought, cool, that will help thicken up my thin fog some. Well, lol, it went completely nuts. It was associated with a storm coming out of Rapid City which was lighting up the morning sky itself. It hits the cliffs and goes up, up, and up some more...shaping itself like a freaking peak itself. I can't tell how high this got on the pics but looks like 5 times the height of the badlands peaks. The wall facing me had these mean looking gashes in it carved by the cliffs as it went up. Looks a bit like those morning glory things, but meaner and over the badlands. I was viewing/shooting this from the higher lookout straight south of Wall SD. When it hit, the winds must have been 60mph up there. That was really rather spooky. Almost zero visiblity with clouds racing by and over the cliffs.
I'll try and post some pics, but doubt I can get smart ftp to work on here since I couldn't last chase.
Oh and the big horn sheep were on the cliffs during this walking near the top. They had to be having a blast once that hit.
Edit: Little bigger ones below now. The rest of the day has largely sucked....as my foot severely cramps...damn(too much climbing around and not enough sleep). BTW, those really aren't low clouds that came in and looked like that, but just a lot of low thick fog that climbed vertical at the hills. Just before these it was all flat filling in the valleys.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-6-18-5090.jpg
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-6-18-5095.jpg
http://www.extremeinstability.com/stormpics/2008/08-6-18-5097.jpg
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