Storms failed to materialize diurnally on this, the first day of my second Great Plains chase excursion in June 2020. Still, the effort wasn’t for naught, even without perfect foreknowledge of great storms in the forthcoming few days. These towers along the slow-moving cold front at least offered a marvelous sunset scene, replete with crepuscular rays, as bobwhite quail and western meadowlarks bid the day a fond farewell. Smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away, in parts of Arizona and New Mexico, helped to give these crepuscular rays such sharp definition across the sky of the Oklahoma Panhandle. This, along with weak but internally flashy nighttime storms all around, and the cool air behind the front, made car camping at this location a sleep-deprived pleasure.
10 NW Slapout OK (18 Jun 20) Looking WNW
36.73, -100.2153High Plains Rays
Storms failed to materialize diurnally on this, the first day of my second Great Plains chase excursion in June 2020. Still, the effort wasn’t for naught, even without perfect foreknowledge of great storms in the forthcoming few days. These towers along the slow-moving cold front at least offered a marvelous sunset scene, replete with crepuscular rays, as bobwhite quail and western meadowlarks bid the day a fond farewell. Smoke from wildfires hundreds of miles away, in parts of Arizona and New Mexico, helped to give these crepuscular rays such sharp definition across the sky of the Oklahoma Panhandle. This, along with weak but internally flashy nighttime storms all around, and the cool air behind the front, made car camping at this location a sleep-deprived pleasure.
10 NW Slapout OK (18 Jun 20) Looking WNW
36.73, -100.2153