Louisiana Through My Lens - Turbulent Skies Over Alexandria

The summer storm season has started here in central Louisiana with a vengeance. Last night my wife stood out in front of our home and watched the show overhead as storm clouds formed and changed shape rapidly. If you focused on one area of the heavens for any period of time you would find a totally different looking sky in one area, then another, and another. It was quite an atmospheric weather event to be eyewitness to.

As the storms gained in strength rotation could be detected in numerous areas (a sign of tornado activity) and funnel clouds would begin to form and just as quickly dissipate. We had our eyes focused on several potential formations that we were concerned about. Thank God none of those actually spawned a tornado.

This was the second such extreme weather event that I have had the privilege of witnessing since we moved here from California. Just after we moved into the small town of Lecompte (just south of Alexandria) I was treated to another amazing thunderstorm with similar cloud formations. There wasn't the amount of cloud rotations and funnel cloud development on that day however.

This was the kind of stuff I used to witness quite regularly in my youthful days in northern Texas. That area was called 'Tornado Alley' for a reason.

I was able to photograph a lot of the amazing storm clouds and a couple of the funnel clouds before the rains moved in. If you are either a fan or student of weather phenomena or simply someone fascinated by the power of nature you should find my images very interesting.