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Supercellular Hatch

2021-12-20 By Roger Edwards

Supercellular Hatch

Looming over low mountains across the Rio Grande from Hatch, NM, this peppy little southward-moving supercell spun for about an hour before being overtaken by outflow-dominant convection farther northeast.  Wait, what?  A supercell in southern New Mexico in mid July?  You bet!   Though flow aloft wasn’t especially strong, a dominant northerly component atop southerly surface flow (and enhanced locally by this and nearly storms) led to enough deep shear to support about an hour of modest storm-scale rotation here, evident in cloud structures and seen on Doppler radar imagery out of Santa Teresa.  Cells farther southeast, over the San Andres and Organ Mountains, would aggregate and kickstart a wild-looking and severe haboob within an hour.   Monsoonal storm observing in the Borderlands isn’t just about lightning, though this activity offered a nice pop here.

2 SW Rincon NM (11 Jul 21) Looking N
32.654, -107.0761

Filed Under: Daytime Lightning, The Majestic Supercell Tagged With: clouds, convection, Hatch, landscapes, lightning, mountains, New Mexico, Rincon, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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