Many Colours in the Storm
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Many Colours in the Storm
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The thunderstorms were developing. The sky was very interesting and I had the time to paint after doing chores all morning.
A pair of fishermen seemed oblivious to the developing thunderstorms. I watched them catch and release a nice pike while I painted probably 4 pounds or better. There was an electric trolling motor on the front and a typical gas motor on the back. I painted both of these in with just a flick of an old brush. The viewer's imagination can fill in the details.
The sides of the cumulonimbus show a multitude of colours. The light and the varying water content in the clouds changed the colours from a creamy white to a blueish purple with many shades of grey in between. There was a row of brightly, front-lit cumulus clouds embedded in the northwesterly winds that were directing the thunderstorms across Singleton Lake. The first barrage of very large convective rain drops hit the gravel as I was finishing up the last details on the fishing boat. Each drop was enough to make you wet and was much larger that the typical rain drops associated with stratiform rainfall.
Time is precious and I was glad that I did not delay in getting out to record the many colours of the storm. Lightning is also dangerous and can be very effective at limiting one's time outside. The fact that I was painting on an exposed marble ridge on a metal easel was not lost on me. I retreated just before the forward flank downdraft arrived.
The water vapour imagery clearly revealed the cold low south of Lake Superior. This was a very familiar weather story for me and I called it the "old cold low trick". Computer simulations of the atmosphere typically miss the details in the weather as small short waves of energy spin around the cold low like spokes on a wheel.
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June 27th, 2017
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