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February chill

February 7, 2021

This year, the weather cooled off in February instead of January, but so far I’ve seen only a faint wisp of sea smoke once. Even though it is mostly above 0ºF, it’s cold enough outside, with frequent fits of snow.

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February 11, 2021 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Photography, Weather Tagged Chicago, Great Lakes, Hyde Park, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, weather Reply

Late June and summer storms

I’ve no statistics to support my idea that June seems to be prime time for summer storms. It was on June 30, 2011, that a sudden hailstorm devastated Garfield Park Conservatory. Yesterday, this evening storm followed a few afternoon ones. No hail by me, but interesting skies.

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Developing storm
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Storm moving in on Promontory Point
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Sky suddenly brightens and a rainbow’s visible through the water left on windows from downpour
Sunset through the storm
June 27, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Photography, Weather Tagged Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, weather Reply

Spring sunrise over Promontory Point

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June 5, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Video, Weather Tagged Chicago, Great Lakes, Hyde Park, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, sunrise, video, weather Reply

Second (single) rainbow

This rainbow appeared only eight minutes after I took a photo of the double rainbow. The entire sky, including color, had changed that fast.

Rainbow 8 minutes later
May 23, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Photography Tagged Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, weather Reply

Double rainbow

The plan was to go to Messenger Woods Nature Preserve again, but a slew of tornado and thunderstorm watches and warnings put me off. I stayed home, which let me witness this.

Double rainbow
May 23, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Photography Tagged Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, weather 1 Reply

Promontory Point, May 20, 2020

Promontory Point
May 21, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Photography, Weather Tagged Chicago, Great Lakes, Hyde Park, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, weather Reply

Sky over Lake Michigan

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I’m reminded of a few evenings on Lake Superior when the sky and water blended into an otherworldly blur.

May 14, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Photography, Weather Tagged Chicago, Great Lakes, Hyde Park, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, weather Reply

Belt of Venus, Wisconsin style

This is another Belt of Venus, this time taken in Wisconsin on Lake Michigan, November 28, 2015. Different from this one and this other one in Chicago.

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Belt of Venus, slightly disrupted?, on Lake Michigan in Wisconsin
May 4, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Adventure, Blog, Photography Tagged Great Lakes, Lake Michigan, photo, sunset, Wisconsin, Wisconsin state park Reply

Full rainbow

words and images Posted on April 11, 2020 by dlschirfMay 23, 2020

The world could use a bit of luck. Or hope.

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Lake Michigan moods

I’ve retired my old Lake Michigan moods post and am replacing it with this slightly newer model that may be updated from time to time. These photos were taken by an assortment of iPhones, iPads, and cameras over the years, not always at a high resolution. In some cases I haven’t found the originals. They’re mostly from my living room window, with a few from my office window and even fewer taken at other places, like Michigan City, Indiana.

They illustrate the many moods of the only Great Lake that runs north-south, with Indiana and Michigan to the east and Illinois and Wisconsin to the west. The clouds range from bright and fluffy to dark and menacing with everything in between, including odd mixtures of types. There are fog monsters and rainbows. There’s lightning caught with a webcam. There’s sea smoke that rises on the coldest days (“Lake Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams,” writes the legendary Gordon Lightfoot). There are ice and snow. There are blues, purples, pinks, greens, oranges, and nearly every color of the rainbow — and I’m not even focusing on sunrise photos (that’ll be another set).

There’s calm. And sometimes there’s calm followed by terror, like the June 30, 2011, hail of hail that devastated the Garfield Conservatory and left me a gelatinous mess.

Lake Michigan's many moods
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First autumn evening, 2021
April 10, 2020 by dlschirf Posted in Blog, Photography, Weather Tagged Chicago, Great Lakes, Hyde Park, Lake Michigan, photo, Promontory Point, weather Reply

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