For the second photo for this week, this is a picture of SMART-R 2 beginning to collect data on an encroaching squall line in central Nebraska, likely just northwest of Ravenna. I was helping with data collection during a small field campaign in May 2011 using funds leftover from VORTEX2, and this was our last deployment of the year, before SMART-R 1 was sent to the Maldives for a project there.
I am doing another two-part "photo of the week" blog post this week to continue to catch up from missed weeks. Given the cold weather setting in here in Lincoln, and the long winter ahead, I figured I'd post a couple storm pictures and pretend I had warm supercell inflow at my back. The first one is a long exposure shot of a roll cloud moving ahead of thunderstorms southwest of Beatrice, NE on June 4, 2015.
Corn ready to be harvested near Plasi, NE, with the few trees on the eastern Nebraska plains at peak fall color.
This is another two-part post for this week, as I'm way behind on the "weekly" nature of this blog.
This picture was taken near sunset at Star School Hill Prairie Conservation Area in northwest Missouri in the Loess Hills (far northern Atchison County, MO). This location was referred to by William Clark as "bald pated prairie" during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and the crew spent a day exploring the area during the summer of 1804. While much of the tree foliage was gone by now, the lighting at sunset made for a beautiful prairie scene.
