Bright, frequent lightning at a safe distance affords storm observers a great opportunity to track the evolution of cloud features. This storm had been a supercell and was merging into a cluster of newly developed cells to become a mesoscale convective system (MCS). The nearly continuous electrical display either silhouetted or cast aglow all the convective and precipitation structures, in randomly pulsating fashion—a chaotically continual dance of flashing light throughout the ever-evolving cloud system. I shot a lot of slides similar to this in just a 10–15 minute span, before mosquitoes (likely rising from an adjoining canal that drained the hill at right) drove us away.
3 NNE Scottsbluff NE (31 May 3) Looking ESE
41.9075, -103.656Silhouetting by Sparks
Bright, frequent lightning at a safe distance affords storm observers a great opportunity to track the evolution of cloud features. This storm had been a supercell and was merging into a cluster of newly developed cells to become a mesoscale convective system (MCS). The nearly continuous electrical display either silhouetted or cast aglow all the convective and precipitation structures, in randomly pulsating fashion—a chaotically continual dance of flashing light throughout the ever-evolving cloud system. I shot a lot of slides similar to this in just a 10–15 minute span, before mosquitoes (likely rising from an adjoining canal that drained the hill at right) drove us away.
3 NNE Scottsbluff NE (31 May 3) Looking ESE
41.9075, -103.656