A little over an hour after an ethereal show of crepuscular rays a couple miles to the west, the remaining cloud debris and rain from dying storms moving off the Sangre de Cristo Mountains gave us a pleasant High Plains sunset. This part of the Great Plains often finds itself behind the dryline, with spring precipitation mainly confined to early synoptic lows digging south of the area and forcing upslope flow, or late-season thunderstorms when the dryline either backs into the mountains, or goes away entirely amid monsoonal moist fetches. The parched nature of this landscape reveals little rain had fallen since winter.
6 N Springer NM (8 Jun 22) Looking E
36.4478, -104.5939