#windstorm

[chasingrainbowsforever]

“Gobi Desert" 

By Christian Hartmann

[barometric]

6/29/23 derecho in Maryville, MO

[1five1two]

'The Windstorm'. Antônio Parreiras. 1888.

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Windstorm

"We don't like interlopers and thieves cluttering our skies." —Dionus, elvish archdruid

Artist: Rob Alexander TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[solarbird]

we are not going to space today

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[gebo4482]

Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori

Announcement Trailer

Website / Steam

[huffle-dork]

Since we’re all wrapped up on the Septicheroes chapters of SITCV here’s Windstorm and Bro being silly <3 love they!!

[kamala-laxman]

Should you shield the valleys from the windstorms, you would never see the beauty of their canyons.” Elisabeth Kubler Ross

[arctic-hands]

Damn that smoke in L.A looks scary just on TV

[indigopoptart]

man chat i rlly wanna post more of my personal concepts here as u can tell😭 i havent been much involved in the Welcome Home fandom as of late BUT i am still lurking and peeking!! i miss her dearly and i love her always <3

BUT as yall know about me of Course i have anxiety about sharing my own shit😖 ily mooties for keeping poking and prodding me i Really need it.

Yell at me!!! throw rocks at me!!! bully me and spite me into talking about my shit!!! i really want to i just need to know yall are interested! 😭

I would love to talk about Hotel Hubbub and maybe even WINDSTORM if i touch it again! augh

[nezoid]

Not the BIRTHDAY (and days before my birthday) that I wanted or expected:

-Windstorm with 100 mph wind gusts

-Nearly surrounded by wildfires

-On the edge of wildfire evacuation zone, so we had to pack just in case and have been watching for updates

-Terrible air quality

-Extended power outage

It’s really scary right now, but we are safe, together, and in our home. I’m very grateful/thankful for that. I hope we can all get through this as unharmed as possible.

My heart is with anyone affected by the windstorm /wildfires / emergencies. Thank you to the first responders! We are so appreciative and continue to be so thankful! ♥️

I’m wishing for more positivity and healing. 🎂♥️

#©diozenoasin #birthday #losangeles #california #windstorm #wildfire #fire #wind #dog #miniaturepinscher #akita #shibainu #staysafe #safe #scary #highlandpark #poweroutage

[barometric]

7/5/22 derecho in SD

[mysticsparklewings]

Obscutober 2024 Day 11: Derecho ⛈️

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Derecho (n.)

a widespread and severe windstorm that moves rapidly along a fairly straight path and is associated with bands of rapidly moving thunderstorms

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Today’s word is proof that I did not go over the prompt list with as finetooth of a comb as I should have—We really didn’t need “rolling wind storms” and “trees dead-from-storms” back-to-back. 😅

Oh well! Not much to be done about it now. 🤷‍♀️

Click the "Keep Reading" and we'll talk more about my thoughts/process for keeping this one as different as I could from yesterday's. ✨

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Just to reiterate: I honestly cannot believe that when I was making final adjustments to the Obscutober prompt list that I both didn't notice this little string of nouns we seem to be stuck in (aside from Day 9 serving as a break) and also that "Rampike" and "Derecho," both storm-related words that made it on the list, ended up back-to-back. 🤦‍♀️

And it's not the fault of total randomization, either; I did randomize the words at first, but then deliberately moved some around for reasons much like this...I just somehow missed these two in the process. 😅

Then I still didn't notice until I looked at the list to get started on today's mandala. 🙄

So, naturally, I went into working on this mandala a little worried that I'd have trouble making it different enough from yesterday's. This was not helped by the fact that I came home absolutely wiped after being out most of the day yesterday, so I was in no position to even attempt getting started before going to bed, and then I also slept in late this morning, which set back my whole schedule for the day.

And now you know why today's is going up a little later than I'd really like, too. 😅 Sometimes I just can't catch a break from myself!

"The Ongoing Saga of Mystic's Poor Pacing" aside, I did what I could to separate today and yesterday without totally abandoning what I felt really was the best fit for the word. Primarily, I opted to use black lines instead of white. Though had I realized these two words were next to each other before I made yesterday's, I think letting Derecho have the white lines and making Rampike have black would've been the better way to go. Dead trees would've made a black silhouette work better, white lines make more sense for clouds, etc.

Still, I did what I could and tried to use the black lines to my advantage to focus on lighter, "this is the blue the sky uses to warn you that rain is very much on the way," blues and lighter grays, like maybe if yesterday's colors were a storm at night, this one is a storm during the day when there's more light.

But, of course, since the definition specifically mentions thunderstorms, I felt like I still had to get some little lightning bolts in there. I kept them intentionally small since "Derecho" is more about the wind that precedes the storms, but these did get more proper "lightning shape lines" versus yesterday's lightning mostly being a strong suggestion based on color placement.

However, swirls for "wind" were, in my opinion, completely non-negotiable. But I did try my best to structure them differently and give them a tad more complexity than yesterday's. If we were looking at just the line work, I'm not fully convinced I pushed them far enough, but I think the coloring helps sell the differences a lot more. Then, I had briefly considered adding some kind of rain representation to yesterday's art—whether in the mandala lines or in the background coloring. You can probably guess that I am now super glad I didn't, because that gave me one more tool up my sleeve to help make today's mandala noticeably different! I'm not entirely sold on the exact way I ended up doing the raindrops, but I didn't really have any better ideas so once I was able to get them shaped in a way I was happy with, I opted to just roll with this and try not to otherwise worry about it too much. I think the main thing that bothers me is the raindrops look "too calm" and not really like they're coming from a storm. Again though: I didn't really have any better ideas. I tried a couple of things before settling on what you see and none of it was jiving with me. 🤷‍♀️

For as worried as I went in though, and for what quibbles I still have, I like it a lot more than I thought I would! So I'll consider that a success and cut my losses for today. 👍

...I feel like this description should be longer, but I think you all want to read a play-by-play of drawing a lot of swirly shapes several times about as much as I feel like writing one. Which is to say: Not very much at all!

So I'll just leave it here, and hopefully I can get this baby cross-posted in record time because I haven't had dinner yet and won't want to get started on that until cross-posting is either done-done or very close to it. 🤪 See you Sparklers tomorrow! 🤗

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Artwork  © me, MysticSparklewings

Obscutober Concept Inspired by nikolas_tower

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[photozoi]

Last nights storm brought winds, and this Doug lost his head.

Just blew his top.

The downed part of the fir goes from left to right across this photo. It covers our path to the barn, and a whole pond and is at least 150 feet long. There will be a bit of clean up, as the path needs to be clear but most of this fir will be left for wildlife habitat.

[vintageslideshow]

Told you not to let Junior drive. 1995