Storm Chaser // Nature Photographer // Geographer // @ExploreFall Media Manager // Charlottesville, VA
Charlottesville, VA
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Autumn so far in Appalachia 🍂🍂
📍Shenandoah National Park and Catskill Mountain Park, October 2025
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INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph+ winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds.
Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx
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Triple diamond ring beads and glorious red prominences.
Franklin, Indiana. 3:10pm.
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Maximum potential for northern lights visibility tonight:
Naked-eye visible down to the the Carolinas and Oklahoma
Possible to view on the horizon to Florida and Southern California.
G4 storm forecast is the highest in 19 years.
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Tonight over Virginia.
A night I’ll remember for the rest of my life.
📍Blue Ridge Parkway, VA 5/10/24
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Northern lights over Virginia's Shenandoah Valley last night. Towering pillars and vivid colors were visible for a few unforgettable moments.
📍 Big Meadows, @ShenandoahNPS, Virginia, USA
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The Sentinel-2 satellite captured this image of Melissa's eye at peak intensity. 10m pixel resolution - one of the best satellite images ever captured of a hurricane of this intensity.
Image from 16z this morning.
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Aurora from the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia at 8pm this evening.
Never seen colors like this on camera. Was briefly visible to the naked eye.
📍Elkton, VA
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Pink #Supermoon rising over Charlottesville, VA this evening. And yes, it was really very pink 😍🌔
#vawx #stormhour #PinkMoon
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Amazing purple aurora pillars from Shenandoah National Park, Virginia! 9:00pm.
Cannot believe this is happening right now
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The solar corona and breathtaking red prominences encircling the sun. Single exposures at 540mm.
Franklin, Indiana. 3:05-3:10pm, 4/8
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Sunrise on Category 5 Super Typhoon Mawar. Strongest storm on the planet at this moment. #Mawar
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Northern lights over Shenandoah National Park, Virginia last night. ✨
Beautiful, clear night with about half an hour of aurora visible to the unaided eye.
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Naked-eye red aurora visible in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia right now. 8pm
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Western North Carolina is effectively cut off due to extreme flooding.
All interstates in/out are closed or blocked, and most state highways are blocked too. NC DOT is saying "All roads should be considered closed" except for emergency use. #ncwx
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Timelapse of the amazing mammatus over Horntown, OK last weekend #okwx
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Northern Lights, the Milky Way, and meteors in Shenandoah National Park this morning.
Photographed from Skyline Drive near Luray, VA. 12-2am.
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Beautiful Lyrid meteor with auroral pillars! About 10:15pm cst. West of St Louis, MO
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Northern lights over the Shenandoah Valley at 3am this morning.
📍Waynesboro, VA. 5/11/24
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The eclipse over Franklin, Indiana. My dream photo and a lifetime memory ❤️
12 frame HDR stack
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Aurora at dawn this morning. 5am in Greene County, Virginia.
Total surprise showing. Fortunate to have been out with my camera already in the morning. Solar max + equinox aurora season
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Rainy day fall color in Shenandoah National Park, Virginia 📸🍁
📍 Skyline Drive, October 29
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My last two months of nature photography.
An exhilarating stretch of color and spectacle. April and May 2024.
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3rd night in a row!! Crazy colors in the aurora over northeastern Iceland. 9pm and just getting started
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Good morning Virginia! ❄️❄️
It’s a spectacular morning with a fresh coating of snow in the Blue Ridge Mountains #vawx
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Incredible winds on Mt. Washington, NH today. Winds up to 161mph and wind chills to -63ºF observed!
Tropopause fold and intense pressure gradient are combining to generate the winds. This timelapse from the WIldcat webcam shows the clouds spilling over the Presidential Range
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Exceptionally rare supernumerary rainbow - captured just now east of Charlottesville, VA.
Never seen one like this before!! #vawx
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Skyline Drive under the northern lights. ✨
Shot 2am Monday morning, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia
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Two months exactly since I started aurora chasing!!
Six individual nights gave me these views. One of the best times of my life for sure.
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Massive fireball meteor under the SpaceX #Crew3 launch this evening from Central Virginia. Unbelievable moment as the rocket flew over.
80" total exposure time. Falcon 9 2nd stage flyby is the long streak.
📍 Gordonsville, VA
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Comet Atlas setting this evening - 100 frame stack (200mm) and a single frame at 70mm. Was naked eye visible.
Charlottesville, VA. 7:30-8pm.
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A G4 geomagnetic storm watch has been issued for tomorrow (Thursday) night.
Northern lights may be visible overhead in New England, upper Midwest, and the PNW. They may be visible on camera as far south as the Gulf Coast.
Stay tuned and track real-time observations!
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Northern lights reflecting off valley fog in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Burtonville, Virginia. 9/12/24
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A rare frame at one of the most photographed places in Virginia.
Raven's Roost Overlook, Blue Ridge Parkway, VA.
May 11, 2024 at 3am.
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Northern Lights over Virginia ✨
A handful of frames from the Blue Ridge Mountains early this morning.
📍 Skyline Drive, VA. 11/12, 2am-6am
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Feeling arctic at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront this morning #vawx
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My HDR photo of the blood moon #LunarEclipse this morning. Drama in the sky on #ElectionDay
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Brilliant red aurora and meteors. A stunning show, even through the clouds.
August 12, 12:30 - 2:30 am. Shenandoah National Park, Virginia.
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Geminid fireball over Charlottesville this morning. A brilliant end to the meteor shower ✨✨
📍Shenandoah National Park, VA. 1am, Loft Mtn Overlook.
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Skyline Drive, Virginia this morning 🍂
📍 Shenandoah National Park, October 13. Low to Moderate color.
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Kilauea just erupted! Explosion at 4:43am, followed by fountaining and lava flows in the crater.
Clip from the @USGSVolcanoes livestream moments ago. #kilauea
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Aurora so bright, it lit up the ground green and red around me and cast shadows.
Dolly Sods, West Virginia
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Crazy bright rainbow in Shenandoah National Park this afternoon behind some lovely summer convection #vawx
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Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and the Milky Way over the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Shenandoah National Park, Virginia last night
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This morning's beautiful #LunarEclipse. HDR photo from Charlottesville, VA. #beavermoon
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Tornado in northeastern North Carolina yesterday evening. Green hail core behind a cinnamon bun circulation - an incredible experience to photograph from so close 🌪️
Difficult but extrememly rewarding chase.
📍Gatesville, NC, 4/7/22. 6:21pm
📸Canon RP, 16mm f/2.8
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The aurora forecast for tonight (7/29-7/30) calls for KP7/G3 conditions!
Pending favorable data, aurora may be visible overhead in New England and the Midwest - and on the horizon as far south as North Carolina and Oklahoma.
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Sunrise at Wintergreen, Virginia this morning revealed an other-worldly landscape of ice. Dazzlingly beautiful morning ❄️❄️
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Skyline Drive, Virginia. 🍂
In full fall color this week!
📍 Swift Run Overlook, Elkton, VA, 10/21
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Fall colors around Canaan Valley, West Virginia this evening. 🍁
Earliest I have seen them here. Photos as of Sep 18, ‘24.
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The eye of hurricane #Beryl at peak Category 4 intensity yesterday - captured by the Sentinel-2 satellite.
At 10m image resolution you can see whitecaps on the ocean and rotating mesovortices. #HurricaneBeryl
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This morning's foggy color on Skyline Drive 🍁🍂
📍 Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. October 29
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Morning views on Skyline Drive today. Peak fall color is coming soon! 🍁
📍 Shenandoah National Park (Southern District), VA
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The wind chill on Mount Washington's summit is now BELOW -100°F. 5pm on the nose. Winds up to 127mph. This could drop as low as -115°F this evening. #nhwx
Track the data here: xmountwashington.appspot.com…
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West Virginia foliage this evening. Sugar maples dotted with spruce and birch. 🍁
📍Cheat Mtn, WV 10/7
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Timelapse of the five aurora substorms I captured last night in three hours. What a dynamic storm!!
📍Shenandoah National Park, VA. 3am-6am 11/12
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A single frame of the comet and Milky Way over Shenandoah National Park at dusk last evening.
8" at 24mm. 7:40pm
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The first colors of autumn in the Blue Ridge Mountains today 🍁
📍 Shenandoah National Park, VA
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Insane morning on Grandfather mountain right now. 102.1mph wind gust measured. Extreme weather conditions with @EFisherWX and @babowling12
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Comet Lemmon over the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia ✨✨
📍Skyline Drive above Elkton Va. 10/22
Photo details in replies below.
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