Sunset August Fourth Anvils
by Phil Chadwick
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Title
Sunset August Fourth Anvils
Artist
Phil Chadwick
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The weather is always inspirational. The thunderstorm was far to the west and actually north of Trenton. According to radar, the central updraft of the convective cell measured 160 kilometres to the west - one hundred miles.
What really caught my eye were the tendrils of clouds drifting down from the anvil and intercepting the sunset light. The fiery show of colour and shape lasted for several minutes and was etched into my mind. The virga process would have been similar to that which produces mammatus but in this case there was not enough moisture apparently to produce those distinctive pouches of cloud.
The southwesterly upper flow was also revealed by the gravity waves embedded within the thunderstorm anvil. Close examination of the colours in the sky also showed gravity waves in the very thin cirrostratus.
The jet stream stream directing the anvil of the thunderstorm was oriented west to east across southern Ontario. The jet stream orientation must be the same as the zonal and nearly quasistationary frontal zone. Cool air was to the north of the front but the United States was at the start of a record-smashing heat wave. A Heat Wave Warning had been issued for portions of southern Ontario that were south of the frontal boundary.
I completed this skyscape on August 5th, 2022 - the same day as Tom Thomson's birth in 1877. He would have been 145 years old... It was appropriate that I was painting a thunderstorm.
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Comments (3)
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in ONTARIO CANADA, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
Maria Faria Rodrigues
Congratulations, your amazing painting is Featured, in the RED MAPLE GALLERY, homepage group, of Fine Art America!
A Hillman
Magnificent and so dramatic! Love it! Wonderful contrasting colors and depth! L/F
Phil Chadwick replied:
Thank goodness the weather keeps coming every day! So very kind of you Sunny.