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Monumental Strike

2015-03-06 By Roger Edwards

Monumental Strike

A weakening supercell produced abundant flashes before I had a chance to find this good viewing spot on the edge of Scottsbluff National Monument and set up.  Immediately, it shut down the lightning.  Doesn’t that figure?  After wasting many empty shots, I was about ready to give up and head back to the motel room when this brilliant blast of atmospheric electricity lit up the twilight sky beneath the sloping anvil.  The two main connections of the ground channel to the parent storm were miles apart across the cloud base!

3 WNW Gering NE (19 Jun 10) Looking NNW
41.8347, -103.721

Filed Under: Night Lightning Tagged With: Gering, Great Plains, lightning, National Parks, Nebraska, Scottsbluff, storms, thunderstorms, twilight, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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