Following a wonderful sunset, the small, weak, diurnally heat-driven thunderstorm that framed these desert vistas had a few more flickers of in-cloud lightning to fling. This would be its last detectable electrical discharge; soon the storm would wither into remnant cloud wisps of twilight, as the evening cooled off the air and flipped off the convective switch.
13 WNW Tucson AZ (16 Jul 19) Looking WNW
32.2533, -111.1976Crackling Arizona Sky
Following a wonderful sunset, the small, weak, diurnally heat-driven thunderstorm that framed these desert vistas had a few more flickers of in-cloud lightning to fling. This would be its last detectable electrical discharge; soon the storm would wither into remnant cloud wisps of twilight, as the evening cooled off the air and flipped off the convective switch.
13 WNW Tucson AZ (16 Jul 19) Looking WNW
32.2533, -111.1976