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 weak asperatus-like cloud features can be seen immediately behind it. The frontal beige tint probably arrives from some combination of the landscape and a yellowed, late-afternoon open sky in the distant east, beyond the downshear anvil canopy of these storms. Though infrequent, I also have noticed such lighting on east-facing cloud features elsewhere on the High Plains, including western Nebraska, northwestern Oklahoma and northeastern Montana, as well as the next day, not far from here. Even more of this kind of action soon developed a short distance east of this location, over the same road.
7 WNW Hayden NM (2 Aug 20) Looking W
35.9987, -103.38Oddly 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 weak asperatus-like cloud features can be seen immediately behind it. The frontal beige tint probably arrives from some combination of the landscape and a yellowed, late-afternoon open sky in the distant east, beyond the downshear anvil canopy of these storms. Though infrequent, I also have noticed such lighting on east-facing cloud features elsewhere on the High Plains, including western Nebraska, northwestern Oklahoma and northeastern Montana, as well as the next day, not far from here. Even more of this kind of action soon developed a short distance east of this location, over the same road.
7 WNW Hayden NM (2 Aug 20) Looking W
35.9987, -103.38