{"id":14824,"date":"2016-03-21T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/?p=14824"},"modified":"2016-03-24T14:37:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T22:37:02","slug":"march-21-2016-trona-lenticular-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stormbruiser.com\/chase\/2016\/03\/21\/march-21-2016-trona-lenticular-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"March 21, 2016 Trona Lenticular Clouds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is Part 2 of my lenticular cloud chase this day. \u00a0Part One is here.<\/a>\u00a0 From the Lone Pine area in Owens Valley, I motored south and east in order to near relatively new wave cloud development. \u00a0The new formations seemed to be in and around the Panamint Mountains, to the east-southeast, and south of there. \u00a0There were also some spaceship-shaped lenticulars to my south, around Ridgecrest. \u00a0I decided to head south on 395 from Olancha instead of taking 190 to the east. \u00a0I felt that getting south as fast as I could would be better, and if I needed to get to Trona, then it would be quicker by going south to Inyokern and then east through Ridgecrest.<\/p>\n

By the time I reached Ridgecrest, any nearby lenticulars were small and the wave cloud activity was demising quite a bit. \u00a0There were, however, some nice ones well to the east. \u00a0These would have been over the southern Death Valley region, an impossible area to reach before dark. \u00a0I continued to Trona, and took the road towards the Pinnacle. \u00a0If nothing else, it was looking like there would be a pretty sunset, with the scattered high clouds around.<\/p>\n

The “magic hour” around sunset was exactly that! \u00a0The lenticulars to the east lit up nicely in orange and red. \u00a0A thick plume of dust rose up off of Searles Lake to the north, on the east side of Trona. \u00a0The sunset over the Pinnacles was a fiery one, and the clouds and stars at dusk made for some eerie scenes.<\/p>\n\n\t\t