As my late friend Jim Leonard was fond of saying, this storm meant “serious business now”. Functioning as “tail-end Charlie” for a line of severe storms, the supercell wielding this wild sky was roaring eastward at over 60 mph, permitting us only few very brief photo stops over a 70-mile stretch west of town. We arrived at a friend’s house in Glasgow with three minutes to spare, before measured 61-mph gusts and 2-inch hail started pummeling the premises. Fortunately I had provided an hour and a half of advance notice that this storm could smack their town with a direct hit, and with that they were able to make a most generous gesture of preparing room in the garage for our big vehicle!
1 NW Glasgow MT (18 Jun 16) Looking NW
48.2266, -106.664Western Light: Glasgow, Montana
As my late friend Jim Leonard was fond of saying, this storm meant “serious business now”. Functioning as “tail-end Charlie” for a line of severe storms, the supercell wielding this wild sky was roaring eastward at over 60 mph, permitting us only few very brief photo stops over a 70-mile stretch west of town. We arrived at a friend’s house in Glasgow with three minutes to spare, before measured 61-mph gusts and 2-inch hail started pummeling the premises. Fortunately I had provided an hour and a half of advance notice that this storm could smack their town with a direct hit, and with that they were able to make a most generous gesture of preparing room in the garage for our big vehicle!
1 NW Glasgow MT (18 Jun 16) Looking NW
48.2266, -106.664