Tucked snugly under the anvil canopy of a big windbag blasting across the Bighorn Basin toward those distant mountains, surrounded by a growing legion of towers and showers, and forming in a regime of weak instability to begin with, this little supercell was doomed to a short lifespan in any event. Yet here it was, the little storm that could, for the short time that it would. The vantage was narrow, through a gap in the muscular hills east of the Bighorns, but sufficed finely for the half hour or less this storm spun across the western sky. Never a threat for a tornado, it nevertheless captivated and fascinated, for a brief time that made the storm-intercept day well worthwhile.
5 ENE Banner WY (8 Jul 19) Looking WSW
44.6112, -106.7625Weak Supercell: Still Beautiful
Tucked snugly under the anvil canopy of a big windbag blasting across the Bighorn Basin toward those distant mountains, surrounded by a growing legion of towers and showers, and forming in a regime of weak instability to begin with, this little supercell was doomed to a short lifespan in any event. Yet here it was, the little storm that could, for the short time that it would. The vantage was narrow, through a gap in the muscular hills east of the Bighorns, but sufficed finely for the half hour or less this storm spun across the western sky. Never a threat for a tornado, it nevertheless captivated and fascinated, for a brief time that made the storm-intercept day well worthwhile.
5 ENE Banner WY (8 Jul 19) Looking WSW
44.6112, -106.7625