As if it weren’t enough for this slowly dying supercell to fling one magnificent barrage of electricity out into all directions of the twilight sky (including miles of clear air nearly to overhead), it did so again! Meanwhile, that Okie pumpjack just kept on bobbing in the short, wide-angle time exposure until the lightning flashed and I closed the shutter. This storm, and the one that followed, were responsible for more photos on one card than I shot on any other day in 2022, and by a large margin, thanks to all their wild lightning production. I’ll have SkyPix images for years, just from this evening alone. To follow these storms southward from the Kansas border almost to I-40, for nearly five hours, was a real treat. I had been coming off a night shift that morning, with no sleep all day, and it took this sort of continuous, wondrous action and frequent stops to keep me chasing alert, awake, and safely, with only a short distance home once finished.
6 NNE Nash OK (13 May 22) Looking NNW
36.7532, -98.0394