Yes, Virginia. It is a Real Snowflake

New phone with an impressive camera.  Found I can take semi-clear macro photography with it.  This was one of the very rare snows we received in Wichita this year.  I took this at lunch and sent it around to coworkers.  Then uploaded it to a local channel, who preceded to do a "Fake or Real" news segment.  They did claim it was real "it is folks".  

Botanica Illuninations

Illuminations is Botanica's little Winter Fest.  The night we went, there was high pressure overhead so the smoke from the chiminea's was forced down and caused a very smoking evening.

Yeah, It's overfiltered.

There were Tornadoes in Kansas on Christmas Day, but All I Got Was this Squall Line

Santa!

Follow Santa on NORAD.

Winterfest Wichita, Kansas 2016

Odds and Ends at the Cosmosphere

I recently got the pleasure of teaching Solar Weather and Severe Weather to teachers at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas.

While there, the TIV had been left for the premier of Tornado Alley.

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