Above a deep desert wash in southeastern Utah, a cumulonimbus‘ anvil spread eastward, blocking out a great deal of sunshine, but for a thin patch allowing the sun itself. Despite the anvil’s thickness otherwise, the storm that produced it wouldn’t offer a valley-deepening flash flood here; it already was weakening, and soon would devolve to a patch of remnant high clouds wafting toward the eastern horizon. As often is the case on the high desert of the Colorado Plateau, moisture was just enough for brief storms, rain in a few small spots, and some welcomed shade, but little more. For flora and fauna here, thirst persisted.
2 SSE Hanksville UT (10 Aug 17) Looking W
38.3376, -110.6882Sun through Anvil
Above a deep desert wash in southeastern Utah, a cumulonimbus‘ anvil spread eastward, blocking out a great deal of sunshine, but for a thin patch allowing the sun itself. Despite the anvil’s thickness otherwise, the storm that produced it wouldn’t offer a valley-deepening flash flood here; it already was weakening, and soon would devolve to a patch of remnant high clouds wafting toward the eastern horizon. As often is the case on the high desert of the Colorado Plateau, moisture was just enough for brief storms, rain in a few small spots, and some welcomed shade, but little more. For flora and fauna here, thirst persisted.
2 SSE Hanksville UT (10 Aug 17) Looking W
38.3376, -110.6882