Alana Martinez

This image was captured on October 4th, 2025 at 6:39pm MDT. This was taken on Oxford Road, a few miles Southeast of Longmont (40.11716°N, 105.06409°W) while I was facing Northwest. The main cloud formations featured in this photo are stratocumulus clouds (toward the right) and nimbostratus clouds (toward the lower left). The atmosphere for these clouds appears to be slightly unstable at the formation of clouds, around 450 mb (CAPE value of 123.9 also indicates this slight instability).

Skew-T diagram:

Original unedited image:

Dyed water injected into corn syrup in a Hele-Shaw cell results in the Saffman-Taylor fingering instability.

Droplets of fluorescent All laundry detergent and a mixture of oil and a fluorescent tracer were placed linearly across the floor of a low speed wind tunnel.

Flow over an airfoil in a low speed wind tunnel is shown using oil flowing over fluorescent laundry detergent.

A mixture of mineral oil and orange fluorescent tracer over fluorescent laundry detergent shows flow over an airfoil in a low speed wind tunnel.

A mixture of mineral oil and orange fluorescent tracer over fluorescent laundry detergent shows flow over an airfoil in a low speed wind tunnel.

Dyed water flows over a model airfoil in a flume.

Flow over an airfoil in a water flume(Re = 40,000), at varied angle of attack, visualized with bursts of food dye.

Dyed water flows over a model airfoil in a flume.

Flow over an airfoil in a water flume(Re = 40,000), at varied angle of attack, visualized with food dye.

Water fog from sublimating dry ice forms ‘boo bubbles’ after passing through soapy water.