As often happens in these parts, convection that blew up hours before in the higher mountains north of I-10 aggregated together, with the collective outflow rushing into a well-heated boundary layer on the desert floor. That, in turn, set off more thunderstorms, which pulsated the outflow/convective cycle along well southward into the borderlands. Dust raised readily from the dry lake bed west and southwest of Lordsburg formed a little haboob at distant rear, while a wild melange of cloud layers surged over the landscape far and near. Even some asperatus elements mix into the chaotic cloudscape, at middle right. Skies like this beautifully blanket the American Desert Southwest often in summertime’s “monsoon” patterns, but each such afternoon and storm is uniquely different and wondrous.
2 SSE Road Forks NM (5 Jul 21) Looking NE
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