Painting Up A Storm Wood Print

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I was headed to Limberlost, northeast of Huntsville, ahead of a cold frontal rain band. The warm sector rain ended as I was passing the Leslie Frost Centre so I pulled into the Sherbourne Lake Road. I parked on the ice and painted looking toward the west-northwest. I saw the cold frontal lightning first. The thunder followed. I spend the next couple of hours between thunderstorms. There were four thunderstorms that crossed my painting place and once the lightning strongly encouraged me to take refuge inside the Subaru. My canvas got soaked and I got really damp and was pelted by small hail at one point. It remained a steady and cool plus 4 Celsius throughout the painting.

I strongly suspect that the thunderstorms were supercells given the amount of lightning and how far the forward flank rain downdraft was ahead of the lightning - the updraft region of the thunderstorm.

I paint outside - nothing between my eyes and the inspiration. That special connectivity gets into the pigments and you quickly realize that we are all stewards of the land, privileged to appreciate its beauty during our lifetime but responsible for leaving the environment better off for the future and all inhabitants... Phil was born and raised along the St. Lawrence of Ontario, Canada and studied at Queens University as a nuclear physicist. A meteorologist for Environment Canada for 35 years, Phil specializes in severe weather and training. Remote sensing is his forte - you might want to see a tornado before you die... but not just before you die! He has farmed, raised bees, written books and articles, lectured and instructed...