The atmosphere in the Borderlands south of Tucson was charged up on this first moist, thundery afternoon of the delayed “monsoon” season. Several brilliant cloud-to-ground strokes peppered the countryside on and alongside the low mountain range to the west, including this one, whose lower-most reaches hid within a core of heavy rain. A faint, horizontal lightning filament decorates the area around cloud base, also within the core.
5 W Amado AZ (15 Jul 19) Looking W
31.7191, -111.1501Rainy Jolt in the Borderlands
The atmosphere in the Borderlands south of Tucson was charged up on this first moist, thundery afternoon of the delayed “monsoon” season. Several brilliant cloud-to-ground strokes peppered the countryside on and alongside the low mountain range to the west, including this one, whose lower-most reaches hid within a core of heavy rain. A faint, horizontal lightning filament decorates the area around cloud base, also within the core.
5 W Amado AZ (15 Jul 19) Looking W
31.7191, -111.1501