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Where exactly or close to are you located? DTW? ORD? MKE?

Not nice. Red Flag Warnings from Iowa to southwest Texas.

Confusion sets in.

Had a little bit of color for the sunset of 3-30. Started off with a small but vivid sundog (parhelia) on the southside of the Sun. Taken with the 24-70mm at 67mm... The gold/bronze hour. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm (cropped in camera)... The best color dynamics of the evening. Taken with the 24-70mm at 47mm... Cheers!

I am ay behind in processing again This image is from 3-29. Some moderate iridescence and interesting cloud lighting here. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Thanks! And sorry that I might have put you on that slippery slope. Actually, it is quite fun and rewarding to do.

And now for something completely different, but yet the same, a sunrise. As the color was just starting to creep into the frosty skies. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... You can see how thin things were getting as I got closer to sunrise. Taken with the 100mm... And ending the morning with the sunrise. Taken with the 100mm..

The clearing line for the departing system was approaching the area for sunset. The molted appearance of the sky pre-sunset as the stratus was breaking up. You can see the clearing line in the left side of the image. Looking north. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Max color dynamics post sunset. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... As the color was fading and everything as not quite as intense. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm... Cheers!

A nice variety of clouds throughout the day. Some mid-afternoon cumulus. Taken with the 24-70mm at 44mm... When it got out to the overpass for the sunset. Looking north at some alto-cumulus. The anti-contrail super straight line stuck out like a sore thumb in the middle top of the image. Taken with the 16-35mm at 16mm... Looking south at some also-cumulus/ cirrus with some stratus starting to form ahead of some garden variety stuff to appear in a couple of hours. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Looking west at some cirrus, some alto-cumulus and some cumulonimbi with a stretched anvil top of the upcoming garden variety stuff. Taken with the 24-70mm at 30mm...

Has to be Spring. They started up the fountain at the retention pond in front of the hospital...

Welll, a Kp of 7.55+ and timing out good for North America has not happened in many decades so that is no surprise. Glad you were able to enjoy it.

^ I would even put up with that amount of snow to get to see aurora that high in the sky. Fantastic and Amazing!

Don't you hate when green lawns turn white?

Departing system this evening. Timed out about one hour wrong though. Looking east when I got out there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Looking west when I got out there. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Using the sign as a sun shade and some weak iridescence. Taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm...

Kp of 7.33, nice! Too bad Indiana is 100% stratus-fest, as usual.

I tried something different this year. Some aggressive winter feeding. The green has been vaguely around most of the year. The serious green started about two weeks ago.

I just mowed this afternoon. The forecast of six days of rain kind of forced my hand. The south and west side grass needed to be cut and if I tried to wait out the rain it would have been a jungle.

Today had a little bit of this. and not a whole lot of that. A partial 22 degree halo around the Sun close to noon. Taken with the 24-70mm at 26mm... The cirrus was ripping through the area. Must have had some nigh winds at height. Taken wwith the 24-70mm at 24mm... Not much going on for sunset. Very minimalist. Taken with the 100mm... Could not even get a decent electric blue post sunset. Taken with the 100mm...

Always good to welcome the Sun back into the Northern Hemisphere. Time to dump the winter threads and fire up the spring ones.

We have finally made it. At 5:24p.m. it was the Vernal Equinox. Spring has sprung. In the nonsensical sun angle tidbit, today at 40N the sun angle at the merdian was 50 degrees. Your latitude will differ.

Sunshine from Duluth to the tenn./alabama border. Have not seen a border to border midwest CAVU event in quite a while.

I am a bit behind again. These are from 3-17. A nice but chilly departing system sunset. Starting out looking east when I got out to the overpass. Taken with the 24-70mm at 24mm... Looking south right afterwards. Taken with the 24-70mm at 35mm... A look west pre-sunset. Found a feature on this camera that lets me electronically to adjust to a 1.6x crop sensor a give a little more reach to a lens. Of course the resolution goes from 8000x5000 to 5000x3000 (approx.) but when you are dumbing them down to 1024x683 anyway, I doubt you can tell the difference. Makes it nice that I do not have to change lens if it is cold out or the conditions are not ummmmmmmmmmmm nice. So this image is taken with the 24-70mm at 70mm but it effectively looks like 112mm.

Second morning in a row of white sidewalks and pavement. So close to Spring but old man Winter is not going out without a bit of a tussle. Also 18 degrees is still a bit too chilly for my taste.

Here at 40N., today the daylight is exactly 12 hours long. Always happens a couple of days before exact first day of Spring. Always cool to see sunrise at 7:53a.m. and then sunset at 7:53 p.m..

The sunset tonight had plenty of clouds. But the majority of them were cirrus at varying heights. So it made it a very subtle sunset. Only going to share one image. I do not know if you will be able to see the *splotchiness* in the reduced resolution version but I as really pleased at how well the new camera was able to hold all the various contrasts. Taken with the 24-70mm at 44mm...