Collis P Huntington Park

Collis P Huntington Park Live

Collis P Huntington Park Cirrus clouds come in four varieties: intortus, radiatus, vertebratus, and duplicatus. The clouds in this photo are cirrus clouds. I took this photo while I was hiking around the lake at Collis P Huntington Park. This park spans 1,017 acres in Redding, Connecticut. It was donated to the state in 1973 […]

Golden Colorado Clouds

Golden Colorado Clouds Live

Rocky Mountain National Park Lookout Mountain provides a scenic view of the town of Golden, Colorado below There are very few views that are more spectacular than a landscape view of a mountain range. I took this photo the winter that I was living in Denver, Colorado. My soon-to-be wife was visiting, and we drove […]

Bourn Pond

Bourn Pond Vermont Live

National Weather Service The Long Trail was constructed from 1910 to 1930 by the Green Mountain Club. This photo was taken during a hike around Bourn Pond in Vermont. I had been hiking the loop trail for Bourn Pond and Stratton Pong that is accessed via the Long Trail. This hike is of particular note […]

Mount Madison

Mount Madison Live

White Mountain National Forest Mount Madison is the northernmost peak in the Presidential Range. This photograph was taken in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The cloud cover is right at the summit altitude, roughly 5000 feet.  Mount Madison is the northernmost peak in the Presidential Range. Like other summits in the Presidential Range, Mount Madison has a […]

Cumulus Clouds Myrtle Beach

Cumulus Clouds Myrtle Beach

National Weather Service Clouds are described in three categories: cumuloform, stratoform, or cirroform. This month our gallery theme is “Clouds”. We will be exploring the different types of clouds that blanket earth. A man named Luke Howard was the first to publish a classification system for cloud types. He published this cloud classification system back in 1802! We still […]

Seals at Salisbury Park

Seals Salisbury Beach State Park Live

National Weather Service Composing a photo can be tricky when you are contending with current, wind, and an environment that doesn’t allow you to use a tripod. For context, the foreground is the Atlantic Ocean and three seals. The land in the midground of this photo is Salisbury Beach State Park in Massachusetts. The clouds in the […]

Hurricanes

Tropical Depression

74+ mph is when we start calling them hurricanes Before we get to hurricanes, you should be aware of tropical waves, tropical depressions, and tropical storms.  A tropical wave is an elongated area of showers and storms that typically moves from east to west across the Atlantic Ocean, along the tropics, near the equator.  As […]

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