Skylapse.org: 8 May 2013 Paducah, TX Storm

James Langford has been producing some stunning lapses lately. This one, captured in the northwest Texas plains, is a beautiful illustration of a storm, its updraft with tentacles beneath, exhaust, and intersecting flow traced by flat stratocu (heck, let's don't forget the rainbow!). From this perspective, anticyclonic circulation can be found due to the dynamical effects brought about by an updraft in a sheared environment. This is an atypical perspective, providing a great illustration of a storm from a potential left split view.

Purpose

The skylapse.org blog is a collection of video embeds, animated gifs, and other illustrations that reveal atmospheric features that may be normally subtle or elusive in real-time, but come to life when the time-lapse technique is applied. The sole intention of creating the blog was to generate a library of ready-to-use visual atmospheric illustrations for pedagogical purposes. While some of the imagery in the blog is my own, most are derived from video sharing sites and, subsequently, embedded or hyperlinked. Please use the "labels" feature below to quickly find examples of phenomena.