Changeable Weather Ahead

About The Weather….Aug 14 Round Robin

“Basically, we’re looking for anything to do with the weather. You can go for something subtle: colors of sky and qualities of light that we associate with hot or cool days. Or show us the most extreme weather your camera can find, or has ever found: blizzards, ice storms, hail, lightning storms, floods, serious fog, or the opposite: sandstorms, dust storms, or a day so hot that the air shimmers and mirages appear. Show us what you’ve got!”

(Click on any picture to “embiggen”)

For my first weather picture I’ve got a shot from June, when we were on Orkney. The clouds came and went all day, with wonderful, warm sunshine in between. Late in the afternoon, however, I looked up and saw big changes coming.
*
*

*
*
Next, a type of weather we see a little too often in the summer, here in California…I call it “fire weather”; Hot and Dry! This picture is from June of 2008, when we had so many terrible fires all burning at once, over 1500 of them!! They burned for weeks, and the air was thick with ash and smoke…making things take on a very distinctive reddish color.
*
*

*
*
In August of 2008 I captured the weather this way…
*
*

105 degrees....in the shade!

*
*
To finish up, I love this shot of the black sand beach on Hawaii…This is very near South Point, where the confluence of ocean currents makes for very strong waves and wind. It’s so windy, that someone got the great idea to have a wind farm here! Strangely enough, altho it was plenty “breezy” while we were there, none of the windmills were working.
*
*

*
*
Fro more great weather photos, be sure to visit the other Robins linked at the Round Robin Photo Challenge!