Weather or Not

Hee hee hee. "Weather or Not". Get it? Hi, everypuppy! It's me - Amber! Our sweet friend Boomer asked if we'd let our mom post more of her weather pictures on the blog! We're happy to do so. Since I'm the resident Meteorologist, Stormy said I could post the pictures!

Our deck faces West, across the Flint Hills, so we have a great view of most of the storm fronts that come rolling in. Here is a video Mom took the other night off the deck. She pans 360 degrees, so you can get the full effect of the sky (don't get dizzy!) -- the sunset, the storm rolling in, the BLUE sky, the black clouds ... everything! All at the same time!

Isn't it pretty!?! (I should have warned you about the sound. That's a million cicadas. Perhaps two. They're a bit loud, aren't they?)

Did you notice the line of clouds near the end? They are in the process of forming into "mammatus" clouds, which often accompany thunderstorms. This one, in fact, was a doozy! Every time we have clouds like that, I like to ask Storm, Zim or Dave, "Why are the clouds so m-mad at us?" Hee hee hee! A little weather humor. Zimmie loves that one.

Here are some other pictures of mammatus clouds Mom has taken; they look like the under-side of a bowl filled with cotton balls, don't they?

That's the real color of the sky - no funny editing! These two pix were taken at sunset, so the light reflecting off the clouds did that! A friend of Mom's said it looks like we're living on another planet. :)

Not Mars ... just Kansas!

We've posted some pretty nice pictures of funnel clouds rolling in and pretty sky shots at this post and this one. Needless to roo, we like it when the sky looks like this because of the snow involved! In fact, let's look at a really bee-roo-tiful sunset:

Oooh, yes! I like this kind of sunset! I feel cooler already!

I like those kind much better than this kind ...

Mom took that one the first year she, Dad, Storm and great-brother Booter were in this house. (I don't think we've posted it before; if we have, please pardon the redundancy!) Dad was at work, Storm was pacing & helping the big Siberian on the City's PA system sound the alarm ("Wooooo!"), and great-brother Booter was thumping his tail against the door to go downstairs to safety. And Mom? Out on the deck with the Pentax. I don't want to say anything I shouldn't say, but I think Mom should have listened to Booter and Stormy!

Anyroo... I hope you enjoyed our weather pictures! Thanks for asking, Boomer!

Love,
Amber