By now if you have looked at, seen or even read parts of this blog, you can tell that I love taking pictures of storms and cloud formations.  So this post is no different. lol

Last night we had a storm pop up to the South of us and of course it wasn’t coming at us, but with the sun starting to set, it made for some good pictures.

Here are my 3 favorites:

The other morning I was outside watering the flowers before I took off to work and we had some tons of rain and i looked over toward the east and caught the sun rising up through the clouds.

Here are two shots:

Yes I know they are the best photo’s, but wanted to share them.

Southern Storm Cloud

Southern Storm Cloud

It was weird as we were really not expecting any weather like this close to us.  Although this isn’t really close but close enough.  A little while later even though this was so far away, we had some brief intense wind gusts and steady wind for probably an hour.  It kicked up a lot of dust and dirt and it was flying everywhere.  I think the closest reporting station to our house showed wind about 28.8 mph with a gust to 35…  It was just weird.  Weather man said the outflow from the collapsing cell pushed the intense wind northward toward us.  It was to have a temporarily 15 degree cool down though..!!

Right before I left this morning for work, I walked out back to water the flowers before another 100+ degree day.  (They say this will be day 12 of the last 13 for 100+)  When I got out back, the sky looked so awesome and it looked like parts of it were on fire.  So I went in and grabbed my crappy camera and snapped some shots of it.

After I left for work I was driving north and saw some cool rain clouds so I snapped a few pictures of those clouds too.  Here is one of them:

A lot of times during the summer months and really throughout various other times of the year, we get some instability and we get pop up thunderstorms.  Well yesterday they said there was a 20% chance of thunderstorms which usually mean we get nothing.  So yesterday at lunch I don’t think there was a cloud in the sky.  When I left work, I saw a pretty good sized cell far to the south so I checked the radar on my cell phone and it was pretty far away.  The closer I got to home more and more little cells were popping up and thought to myself that these were pretty close.  Got home checked radar and sure enough, this one (20% chance) was coming right at us.  Sweet..!!!  So I grabbed a few pictures of the clouds in the area and the rain approaching.

Sometimes I think I’m a little obsessive about clouds and storms.  I guess after being in Seattle for 32 years and not really having bad storms and then moving to Texas where there are HUGE storms, I get a little carried away.  Not to mention I was I was a better photographer.

So the other night the dog and I were sitting around the house (wife was in Oklahoma) and I let Mazzie dog out back and looked up and saw some pretty good storm clouds off in the distance.  Like always I ran in and grabbed the camera and snapped a few photo’s of the clouds.

Here are a couple of photos I wanted to share:

We drove up to Oklahoma to my wife’s parents house for fathers day.

Yesterday I had the chance to snap a few shots of some cool (at least I think they were) cloud buildups. No storms ever made it all the way to us or really close but still made for some good photos.

Here are a couple shots I took the other morning as I left the house for work.
I really do like weather and wish to learn more about it.

Yesterday some of the area (North Texas) had some pretty good storms. Unfortunately they didn’t come to my area. So here are a couple of pictures I took to the distant storm cell structures.

Sometimes when the storms pass through in the middle of the night and you wake up and see behind the clouds, they can make up some really good photo opportunities. Here are 2 pictures I will share with you.