SUPERCELL

The shape of moving air

Collection

I — THE WEIGHT OF AIR

SUPERCELL

A storm sustained
by moving air.

Scroll to observe

SUPERCELL

Five ways of seeing.

An illustrative storm.
A different understanding.
FIELD NOTES

Weather, interpreted.

One imagined storm, observed five ways. The photographs are AI-generated. The sections and airflow are calculated illustrations, not measurements or a forecast.

  1. NOAA NSSL Thunderstorm types ↗

    A supercell is organized around a tilted, rotating updraft. Not every storm displays the same visible features.

  2. National Weather Service The supercell ↗

    Wind shear describes changes in wind speed or direction with height. This model explores tilt and relative precipitation position.

  3. NASA Earth Observatory Anatomy of a thunderstorm ↗

    Air rising toward the top of the troposphere can spread outward, forming an anvil.

  4. Berndnaut Smilde Nimbus ↗

    An artistic reference for the cloud as a temporary physical presence. No original artwork is reproduced.

Height and shear are normalized model controls. The scroll is an observation sequence, not elapsed weather time. Rotation shown here is one illustrative orientation, not a global rule.