Tuesday, August 24, 2021

Henri's Outer Edges Made For Photogenic Skies Over Northwest Vermont

Pure tropical air ahead of Henri created some Miami-like
skies over Colchester Vermont Saturday evening. 
Hurricane/Tropical Storm Henri's approach and passage through southern New England, and the pure tropical air it brought north to Vermont, made this probably the prettiest such system to affect northern Vermont.  

Even if that effect was slight to say the least.

Still, the sky over northwestern Vermont because of Henri were spectacular.

The haze from western wildfires was routed by the clean, but oppressive pure tropical air.  The sky Sunday afternoon was some of the bluest I can remember.  

Dying rain bands from Henri produced nothing more than the lightest sprinkle, but created some gorgeous rainbows on two evenings in a row. 

Mid-level cloudiness associated with Henri also created some gorgeous patterns in the sky Monday morning, and prompted a gorgeous orange sunset Monday evening. 

I took photos, and a few of them are in this post. Scroll down to see them all.  Enjoy! 

By Sunday afternoon, the sky turned perhaps the deepest blue
I've ever seen, thanks to pristine, but very humid air
brought in part by Henri straight from the Caribbean. 

Toward Sunday evening, the dying remains of an outer rainband
from Henri, created a delicate pattern and a complex sky over
St. Albans, Vermont.


That dying rain band then produced a lovely rainbow. Here
you can see a dragonfly scooting by in front of the rainbow.

Mid-level clouds from Henri created these beautiful 
patterns in the sky over Burlington, Vermont Monday morning.

Another rainbow, fainter than the night before, with no
actual rain, from Henri's remains as viewed from 
St. Albans, Vermont Monday evening

 

As Henri began to depart southern New England Monday
evening, it threw out a nice sunset
over St. Albans, Vermont 

2 comments:

  1. Su-PERB photos Matt!

    I was wondering about this (link) earlier and I think with climate change it's beginning to be a "thing" ?

    https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/24/climate/warmer-wetter-world.html

    Love all you do!
    dj

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  2. Not sure why my comment got the 2x treatment here on blogspot but OK ! //dj

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