I enjoy Mother Nature, even here in the Sonoran Desert where the sun can be relentless and the weather somewhat “static”.
Monsoon season has been fairly active thus far. Wednesday night brought an impressive lightning show to western Pima County (the other side of Tucson from where we live). Mother Nature pulled a lot out of the atmosphere with that show, so when the storms came down from the Mogollon Rim yesterday afternoon, the atmosphere had better convective potential in on the eastern side of Tucson.
The show was impressive.
I’ve decided to put together a monsoon video highlighting some of the storms and will be working along with that for the next several weeks. I’m hopeful Mother Nature remains feisty for this project. I know I am. In the meanwhile, here’s some shots from last night’s fun.
In the shot where I’m holding the tripod, I was actually holding the tripod down, as the outflow wind gusts were fairly strong. The weather station on our roof recorded a peak gust of 32 knots, but it feels like it might have been a little higher.
