New NFT's featuring Fire in the Sky, The Nightmares Above, The Nightmares Emerge

 Recently I've done a deep dive into NFT's as another possibility to show and sell my work.  I am going to take photos from post chases and put them into Google's Deep Dream.  This is an odd neural network that looks at a photo trying to find things that it recognizes and inserts them.

When completed the photos can appear otherworldly and at the extreme, nightmarish.

Fire in the sky -

The Nightmares Above - 

The Nightmares Emerge -

This and my other collections will be viewable and up for sale soon here: https://opensea.io/collection/father-thunder-collection

Severe Weather 06/26/2018

Summer had set on Wichita or at least we seemed to be in for a long, hot, dry days.  Little patches of rain happened occasionally, but not enough to knock off the severe drought that had lingered.

There had been some storms in the morning that provided a couple of quick thunderstorm warnings, but nothing too strong.  Most of the storms dissipated just before hitting Wichita to reform after and produce stronger storms. I had gone out in the morning just to try to shoot more photography.

Storms looked to be focused mainly on the Kansas/Missouri border and I thought the less than spectacular morning storms may be the end of it.  The five o'clock News mentioned that there was a stationary front just to our west that may form storms in the next few hours.  By six, a number of storms formed NE of Wichita and slowly moved to the SE.  Within 30 minutes from that, the storms had become tornado warned.  

After the initial warnings and not seeing tornadoes I moved to near Rose Hill but unfortunately went though Andover which really slowed me down after they had some initial wind damage.

Storms 10/7/16

It was a chaotic week. First the storms coming through on Tuesday then a sudden increase of storms Thursday with tornado potential increasing on every Storm Prediction Center update.

With a cold front add dry line descending quickly into Wichita by that afternoon, there was an increasing chance for severe weather. Tornadoes were reported north of Wichita near Salina and SE of Wichita near Ark City.  For information on this check out the National Weather Service link:  http://www.weather.gov/ict/oct6th_tornadoes.

from http://www.weather.gov/ict/oct6th_tornadoes

Slowly storms began to fill in and had some severe potential before giving in and forming a squall line with below severe level winds.

At Woodlawn and K-254

Not sure what it was trying to organize.

360 degree panoramic

Pretty Clouds While a Monster Hit Up North

I watched a storm grow up in Great Bend, ignored it and thought maybe the storms south of Wichita would possibly spawn something.

Nope.

Many towers went up, went warned, then quickly fell apart.

Apocalyptic Storm Chase 04/18/16

Not really, but a hyped up storm that luckily didn't get all it's ingredients together.  Started by running to the car in Maize while being pelted by heavy rains and small hail.  Ran around grabbing my chase partners for the storm, then headed around trying to figure out what to chase.  Pretty much did large circles around the Wichita area before heading south towards Wellington.

Always running a little late

Storms from Sunday, April 24th, 2016.  Pics were taken south of Salina, while north of Salina there was baseball size hail.  New camera, trying to figure out how it works.

Otherwise, slowly getting back into it.

04/14/2015 storms . . . meh

It's been a busy year for Ruminations of Thunder.  We've had art shows, Final Fridays, and moved. In the midst of moving and house repairs, I decided to chase a severe warned storm heading into the city. It was a beautiful storm that became suddenly outflow dominate before it fell apart.  Lots of movement in the atmosphere.

Ah . . . Kansas

Where else can you have wind screaming all day, chance of severe storms with large hail and maybe snow.  It's in the 70's now, high tomorrow of 40's, and a deep freeze Monday night with temps in the 20's.

Wheeeeeeeeeee.

Denton, Texas Tornado

Tornadoes can be a scary thing.  Especially when wall clouds are less than four miles from your house and the storm just hit a local college.

Special thanks to Ruminators John DeNovellis and Michelle Durkin for keeping me in the loop.

Did We Need More Rain?

Not really, but at least we are out of drought.

A severe warned thunderstorm, but the area of concern seemed to be to the east of my location.  Lots of rain and temps dropped down into the low 60's.

Rain, Rain, Rain, Thunder, Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain

Well at least the lakes and rivers are full.

Storms near El Dorado (Non-Severe) 07/29/2013

There's thunder outside to the east as we finish off one of the cooler and wetter July's in memory.  Enough rain has fallen in the area (6-12 inches depending where you are), with flooding in some places this evening.  Earlier today there was a slight threat of severe weather and I went running up toward the El Dorado area that had some weak, broad rotation.  Watched a very brief wall cloud develop and fall apart quickly.  There were funnels spotted near Medicine Lodge but nothing touched the ground.