Sitting in my motel room at 11 p.m., getting horizontal and unwinding after a Colorado chase day, I noticed faint flashes out the window, and on radar, an intensifying, lengthening band of elevated thunderstorms to the west, moving mostly eastward. That reinvigorated me for a short trip down the Interstate to meet them. The richly complicated cloud layers over the gust front made a wonderful sandwich of light and shadow to varying degrees, rarely with a distant CG strike or two outside the core for good measure. The pronounced band across the bottom is no artifact; it really was part of the arcus formation. Briefly, CGs become more common as the line approached Burlington, taking me right back to the parking lot of where I was staying for the night.
1 S Bethune CO (22 May 21) Looking W
39.2884, -102.428