{"id":10791,"date":"2014-03-31T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=10791"},"modified":"2014-04-04T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T19:10:01","slug":"march-31-2014-mojave-lenticular-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2014\/03\/31\/march-31-2014-mojave-lenticular-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"March 31, 2014 Mojave Lenticular Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It had been a few months since I had done a desert photo trip, I had this Monday off, and a Pacific storm was approaching California.\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 It means I needed to get up to the western Mojave Desert and southern Owens Valley to chase lenticular clouds!\u00a0 I met my friend Jody in Granada Hills, and we were north of the town of Mojave by noon.\u00a0 Somewhat strong westerly winds were blowing through the Mojave Desert, and a handful of lenticulars were already starting to look fabulous when we stopped near Pearsonville.<\/p>\n

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That one lenticular cloud with the brief “tail” was pretty wild!\u00a0 It looked like we would be in Fat City for the day as far as lenticulars were concerned, as mid-level winds would be increasing through the afternoon.\u00a0 These lenticulars, just to the east of Pearsonville, dissipated a bit, though.\u00a0 The ultimate goal on this day was to find a fabulously stacked lenticular, or “wave cloud”, around sunset.\u00a0 With sunset still six hours away, I decided to head on up to the Owens Lake area to see what conditions were like up there.\u00a0 The southern end of the Owens Valley rarely fails to impress, and fail it did not on this afternoon.\u00a0 There was plenty of blowing dust on the dry lake, and interesting clouds along the Sierra Nevada and toward the Inyos.<\/p>\n

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The images above were taken along Highway 190 between Olancha and Keeler.\u00a0 Jody and I had to battle winds which were gusting to about 50 mph.\u00a0 Fortunately, it was not too chilly, with a temperature near 60F.\u00a0 Though there was a bit of a Sierra wave evident, the wave clouds were not impressive.\u00a0 After a stop in Keeler for a swim, we headed back south through Panamint Valley towards Trona.<\/p>\n

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Jody and I were hoping for a sunset shoot at the Trona Pinnacles, but at Trona the sky was kind of blah and partly cloudy without any lenticulars nearby.\u00a0 We continued south towards Red Mountain, with a couple of stops along the way.\u00a0 Some distant lenticulars were worth photographing in the now cold and strong west wind south of Red Mountain.\u00a0 As it turned out, the best wave clouds of the day were early on, around noon near Pearsonville.<\/p>\n

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