One of the most dramatic and interesting skies I’ve ever seen, outside Great Plains supercells, came in a casual jaunt from our mountain rental to experience an approaching squall line. The band of storms roared through the northern San Juan Mountains and surrounding countryside, its main core of rain, hail and wind having not even arrived yet, when its broadly swirling, terrain-redirected outflow surges rode up mountainsides, forming a strangely textured foreground of rapidly moving scud, with dark bases looming behind.
3 WNW Ridgway CO (4 Oct 18) Looking SW
38.159, -107.8027Dramatic Sky in the San Juans
One of the most dramatic and interesting skies I’ve ever seen, outside Great Plains supercells, came in a casual jaunt from our mountain rental to experience an approaching squall line. The band of storms roared through the northern San Juan Mountains and surrounding countryside, its main core of rain, hail and wind having not even arrived yet, when its broadly swirling, terrain-redirected outflow surges rode up mountainsides, forming a strangely textured foreground of rapidly moving scud, with dark bases looming behind.
3 WNW Ridgway CO (4 Oct 18) Looking SW
38.159, -107.8027