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After the tornado in the area earlier in the day 4-5, the clearing line as the system departed hit the area right at sunset. The yellows as the Sun found the opening. Taken with the 24-70mm at 63mm... A broader overview as the actual clearing became visible and the oranges were starting. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... As the deep orange arrived. Taken with the 24-70mm at 41mm... Good night my darl'in, wherever you are...

Maples are starting down here. Does not look like much up close but if you get some distance away, you can see the color starting...

A week ago, on 4-3. As I was heading to a morning errand, I walked out the back door and saw this. Turned around and grabbed the camera and took some sunrise shots from the alley behind the house. So the house, trees and wires are part of the scenery. Looking east, through the neighbors porch. Taken with the 24-70mm at 67mm... Looking south as the color as zipping past. I like howw you can see the clouds at the bottom are lit up while the clouds above it (top of image) are blocked and in the shadow and still white. Taken with the 24-70mm at 50mm...

Way behind in the processing once again. These are from 4-2. The sunset and the yellows. Taken with the 100mm... The beginning of the reds. taken with the 100mm... The end of the reds. Taken with the 100mm...

Best climo days also. Can't beat them with a stick though.

Chicken approved forecast.

This and two semi's flopped on their side on I-65 that completely blocked the northbound side for a number of hours filled the definition for severe here regardless what did or did not happen in Michigan.

That line from western Iowa through eastern Kansas looked like it was made by a boundary or dryline moving northwest and another moving southeast merged, and that unzipped the whole line almost at once. Cool to see but kind of scary also.

Thank you. Now I have a frame of reference for your posts.

Meanwhile, way down south here it was at least 81. Just waiting on a six-hour update to see just how high.

Where exactly or close to are you located? DTW? ORD? MKE?

Not nice. Red Flag Warnings from Iowa to southwest Texas.

Confusion sets in.

Had a little bit of color for the sunset of 3-30. Started off with a small but vivid sundog (parhelia) on the southside of the Sun. Taken with the 24-70mm at 67mm... The gold/bronze hour. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm (cropped in camera)... The best color dynamics of the evening. Taken with the 24-70mm at 47mm... Cheers!

I am ay behind in processing again This image is from 3-29. Some moderate iridescence and interesting cloud lighting here. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Thanks! And sorry that I might have put you on that slippery slope. Actually, it is quite fun and rewarding to do.

And now for something completely different, but yet the same, a sunrise. As the color was just starting to creep into the frosty skies. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... You can see how thin things were getting as I got closer to sunrise. Taken with the 100mm... And ending the morning with the sunrise. Taken with the 100mm..

The clearing line for the departing system was approaching the area for sunset. The molted appearance of the sky pre-sunset as the stratus was breaking up. You can see the clearing line in the left side of the image. Looking north. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Max color dynamics post sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... As the color was fading and everything as not quite as intense. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... Cheers!

A nice variety of clouds throughout the day. Some mid-afternoon cumulus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 44mm... When it got out to the overpass for the sunset. Looking north at some alto-cumulus. The anti-contrail super straight line stuck out like a sore thumb in the middle top of the image. Taken with the 16-35mm at 16mm... Looking south at some also-cumulus/ cirrus with some stratus starting to form ahead of some garden variety stuff to appear in a couple of hours. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Looking west at some cirrus, some alto-cumulus and some cumulonimbi with a stretched anvil top of the upcoming garden variety stuff. Taken with the 24-70mm at 30mm...

Has to be Spring. They started up the fountain at the retention pond in front of the hospital...

Welll, a Kp of 7.55+ and timing out good for North America has not happened in many decades so that is no surprise. Glad you were able to enjoy it.

^ I would even put up with that amount of snow to get to see aurora that high in the sky. Fantastic and Amazing!

Don't you hate when green lawns turn white?

Departing system this evening. Timed out about one hour wrong though. Looking east when I got out there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Looking west when I got out there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Using the sign as a sun shade and some weak iridescence. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Kp of 7.33, nice! Too bad Indiana is 100% stratus-fest, as usual.