My return home from the last trip of 2023 chase season featured a scene you’ll seldom see: a verdant Oklahoma Panhandle in July, beneath a clean, blue sky full of soft stratocumulus. Multiple shots of heavy rain from thunderstorm complexes preceded this, including the one that left behind cool outflow earlier the same morning. The purity and serenity of this view made it seem if somebody flattened the Scottish Highlands. It also reminded me and another meteorologist of one of those idyllic Windows XP boot-up photos. This scene was just a couple miles from where I observed a tornado 13 years before.
3 NNW Logan OK (9 Jul 23) Looking NNW
36.6163, -100.2446