Four of nearly 80 cloud-to-ground flashes I shot that night split the rainy, dusty monsoonal skies between Tucson and Phoenix. The second from left did contact ground inside the rain core, and the rightmost was a split single discharge with two ground contacts performed at once. Through several cores that crossed the same area, the strikes mostly happened in bursts of 2-5 at a time, where “a time” is within just a few seconds inside a much-longer, 10-20-second exposure. Here, two vehicles of southbound (white) and northbound (red) traffic streaked across the scene during the exposure, adding horizontal streaks of light to complement the jagged vertical ones provided by atmospheric electricity.
5 NE Eloy AZ (9 Jul 21) Looking NW
32.8216, -111.5