Two of numerous cloud-to-ground flashes I shot that night, these blasted through a mix of rain and dust to overheat patches of the desert floor briefly. The lower segment of the left channel penetrated the divergent lower part of a rain core, that spread outward from the vertical plane of its prior descent. Meanwhile, a vehicle traveled southward along a state highway quickly, all the way across the view, during this roughly 25-second exposure. Quite often, as here, the flashes would occur within just a few seconds of each other, during the much-longer time I held the shutter open.
5 NE Eloy AZ (9 Jul 21) Looking NW
32.8216, -111.5