Set behind the rocky, saguaro-sprinkled landscape of southern Arizona’s Tucson Mountains, a multicell thunderstorm and its anvil grow over the distant Santa Catalina Mountains. An earlier pulse of anvil growth shed a ring of cirrus that nearly completely detached from the original cloud mass, appearing here as a sickle-shaped appendage to the top of the storm.
12 NW Tucson AZ (15 Jul 19) Looking E
32.3251, -111.136
Anvil Castoff
Set behind the rocky, saguaro-sprinkled landscape of southern Arizona’s Tucson Mountains, a multicell thunderstorm and its anvil grow over the distant Santa Catalina Mountains. An earlier pulse of anvil growth shed a ring of cirrus that nearly completely detached from the original cloud mass, appearing here as a sickle-shaped appendage to the top of the storm.
12 NW Tucson AZ (15 Jul 19) Looking E
32.3251, -111.136