Developing as a late-day "tail-end Charlie" on the Palmer Divide, the Ordway supercell would spin on through twilight and into the deepening dark of night, here expressing a brilliant, forked cloud-to-ground discharge from its visual-vault region. As it closed in, this storm would continue rotation aloft and pulsate with electricity in nice variety. 2 N Ordway CO (4 Aug 20) Looking … [Read more...]
New Mexico High Plains Storm
After a weirdly lit and shaped stage, a relatively young, but outflow-elevated updraft shifted south-southeastward away from the highway, faint filaments of lightning flickering in the distant rain core. In the "monsoon" season, this scene epitomizes summertime on the High Plains of New Mexico. 2 NNE Hayden NM (2 Aug 20) Looking WSW 35.9987, -103.2561 … [Read more...]
Ghostly Updraft over Highway
A cold pool from the distant cores built upon itself, sending a steady push of outflow eastward across the High Plains of northeastern New Mexico. After precipitation ultimately doused an oddly tinted updraft area farther west, this one developed and likewise moved southward across the road where I just had cruised. Above the shelfy, somewhat convective and somewhat laminar base hovered a … [Read more...]
Oddly Lit Updraft Base
A high-based updraft, with a small based fronted by a blended convective and laminar, shelf-like formation, formed fairly rapidly over the road and over me, then moved southward. Its curious presentation in the rear-view mirror compelled me to pull off this sparsely traveled New Mexico two-lane and shoot. The updraft also was elevated, given the cool outflow from its location nearly to mine, and … [Read more...]
Works of Wind and Water
Geologic change is an all-season process in the Painted Desert. Not far from The Tepees in Petrified Forest National Park, the combined action of wind and water has laid bare a fascinating erosional landscape. Dry the great majority of the time, this area experiences its greatest changes a few times a year—mainly during summer "monsoon" season—when isolated heavy thunderstorm cores wash … [Read more...]
Twilight Right Mover
Now a lone supercell, what had been a "Tail-end Charlie" broke south-southeastward away from its formative convective mass and shrunk gradually—though still a sizable storm at this point—and began taking on progressively more-laminar form as the inflow layer slowly stabilized. In this messy, intermediate stage, the storm effused a dark, forlorn and foreboding form, dominating the western skyline … [Read more...]
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