This was a fine end to a long day! Rotating the circadian sleep/wake rhythm forward off a set of 15 straight night shifts, I was able to leave central Oklahoma early enough in the morning to find some pretty storms in the Nebraska Sandhills during the afternoon. Those, in turn, evolved into a cluster that included a photogenic heavy-precip supercell. By the time the entire area of convection aggregated together and blasted past Ord, I was “plumb tuckered out”, as many a relative might say, and about ready to get to sleep. Yet sunset beckoned, just a couple miles from my camping spot, and what a great show it was, not just in this vertical wide angle, but directly overhead along that wispy anvil edge. Another Great Plains storm chase ended in a supremely relaxing and comforting way, with a brilliantly chromatic sunset sky over cool, moist outflow air.
2 NW Ord NE (3 Jun 20) Looking NNE
41.6307, -98.954No Ord-inary Sunset
This was a fine end to a long day! Rotating the circadian sleep/wake rhythm forward off a set of 15 straight night shifts, I was able to leave central Oklahoma early enough in the morning to find some pretty storms in the Nebraska Sandhills during the afternoon. Those, in turn, evolved into a cluster that included a photogenic heavy-precip supercell. By the time the entire area of convection aggregated together and blasted past Ord, I was “plumb tuckered out”, as many a relative might say, and about ready to get to sleep. Yet sunset beckoned, just a couple miles from my camping spot, and what a great show it was, not just in this vertical wide angle, but directly overhead along that wispy anvil edge. Another Great Plains storm chase ended in a supremely relaxing and comforting way, with a brilliantly chromatic sunset sky over cool, moist outflow air.
2 NW Ord NE (3 Jun 20) Looking NNE
41.6307, -98.954