Windy on Top (at 14,271 ft/4,349.8 m)
White on the Top and Blue at the Bottom, Mount Blue Sky, Mount Evans Wilderness, Rocky Mountains Front Range, Colorado, February, 10:07 AM. Hand-held shot from home.
This mountain has remained fascinating to watch over the years, seasons, days, and nights. It is the Fourteener Mountain (14,000+ ft high mountain) I'm able to see most often. In all seasons, I've seen storm systems forming and passing over this summit, the Denver Basin, along the Front Range, and counties farther to the Northeast, Eastern Plains, or Southeast.
There are wave, lenticular ("bean"), cumulonimbus (thunderhead), roll (arcus, horizontal), tornadic, and blizzard clouds, and billows of smoke from forest fires that develop or strengthen as they uniquely interact with mountains, flow forth, and even double-back (upslope fashion).
Fog, low cloud systems, and smog can also completely obscure this massive mountain for a few days at a time. It doesn't take long for me to miss seeing it and the neighboring mountains.
Several meteorologists of this region are known to preface their forecasts with such statements as, "Well, the weather conditions could be.... or perhaps they might be...." Even with the best technology, making accurate forecasts can make the most experienced forecasters sheepish. It still can be "difficult to say" and tough "to be forthright." It's because of THOSE MOUNTAINS!
;)
Finally, the sunrises and sunsets, with varying shadows, colors, and filtered light patterns, are often worth anticipating and pausing to see what beauty or curiosities await. If I have a camera nearby, I may pick it up and try to capture the awesomeness. Other times, I've just slowed only to watch and be still, . . and be thankful.
Windy on Top (at 14,271 ft/4,349.8 m)
White on the Top and Blue at the Bottom, Mount Blue Sky, Mount Evans Wilderness, Rocky Mountains Front Range, Colorado, February, 10:07 AM. Hand-held shot from home.
This mountain has remained fascinating to watch over the years, seasons, days, and nights. It is the Fourteener Mountain (14,000+ ft high mountain) I'm able to see most often. In all seasons, I've seen storm systems forming and passing over this summit, the Denver Basin, along the Front Range, and counties farther to the Northeast, Eastern Plains, or Southeast.
There are wave, lenticular ("bean"), cumulonimbus (thunderhead), roll (arcus, horizontal), tornadic, and blizzard clouds, and billows of smoke from forest fires that develop or strengthen as they uniquely interact with mountains, flow forth, and even double-back (upslope fashion).
Fog, low cloud systems, and smog can also completely obscure this massive mountain for a few days at a time. It doesn't take long for me to miss seeing it and the neighboring mountains.
Several meteorologists of this region are known to preface their forecasts with such statements as, "Well, the weather conditions could be.... or perhaps they might be...." Even with the best technology, making accurate forecasts can make the most experienced forecasters sheepish. It still can be "difficult to say" and tough "to be forthright." It's because of THOSE MOUNTAINS!
;)
Finally, the sunrises and sunsets, with varying shadows, colors, and filtered light patterns, are often worth anticipating and pausing to see what beauty or curiosities await. If I have a camera nearby, I may pick it up and try to capture the awesomeness. Other times, I've just slowed only to watch and be still, . . and be thankful.