Across the Grand Canyon and over the higher North Rim, convective towers gradually built deeper through the afternoon, until forming pileus caps and breaking the inversion cap. This was a great day for a storm photographer's first visit to the South Rim. Soon, amidst continued heating of the elevated terrain, the series of towers would evolve into thunderstorms, offering booming echoes across … [Read more...]
Charged Core in the Grand Canyon
On a good day for storm shooting in the big chasm, and before an even better (albeit short) evening, this late-day thunderstorm dumped copious rainfall and produced mostly loud but invisible bolts inside its dense core. This flash near the south rim (of core and canyon!) was a welcomed exception, except for the fact that the core was almost upon me, and I had to shut down shooting and move to a … [Read more...]
Reflected Ground Light
As outflow surged southwestward across the borderlands of southwestern New Mexico, it periodically lifted several types of clouds out of the foregoing, marginally moist air mass, including chunky partial arcus formations like this. Late-afternoon sunlight, reflecting directly off the Peloncillo Mountains, colored the overhead outflow clouds and surrounding dust a warm, muted orange hue. That … [Read more...]
Shocking Northeastern New Mexico
Soon after sunset, a single, elevated storm drifted southeastward over outflow and tossed a few could-to-ground strikes about the High Plains of northeastern New Mexico. Even without the supercell-supporting flow and cold air aloft (steep lapse rates) of springtime, summer monsoonal moisture and related thunderstorms can offer quite the electrical show across the Land of Enchantment, on either … [Read more...]
High Plains Sunset, Clayton
A series of somewhat short-lived supercells had formed and gone, leaving behind abundant, highly varying low- and middle-level convective cloud residue as a foil for yet another beautiful High Plains sunset, here shown through the narrow view field of a deep zoom. This was a wonderful way to end an uncommon July chase day in northeastern New Mexico and extreme southern Colorado. Standing just a … [Read more...]
Trinidad Supercell from Johnson Mesa
The gently rolling shortgrass prairie of western Johnson Mesa, in northernmost New Mexico, is a great vantage for supercells that fire in the Sangre de Cristos just west of Trinidad and roll east or east-southeast, as often happens in late spring to early summer. This well-structured storm, dark and brooding under shadow of its own anvil and some high clouds to the southwest, cut a spectacular … [Read more...]
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