On Day Two of our “monsoon” chase tour, we went to the ends of the Earth, towards Douglas, AZ. We found a strong cell with a lot of lightning in the mountains some 10-20 miles northeast of Douglas. Here are a couple of images:
On Tuesday, Day 3, we drove all of the way from Douglas to Albuquerque, then west to Grants, back to Albuquerque (it was dark by now), and then south to between Belen and Socorro. We were rewarded for our efforts with a fine CG lightning display to our south, over Socorro.
And on Wednesday, August 7, we headed northeast from Albuquerque to Clayton and Boise City for the slight risk area, where there was a decent chance for supercells. We got on one as it blew up just to our east at around 4:30 p.m. It moved slowly over Boise City, with wild motion on the lowerings beneath the updraft base, between the cool outflow and warm and moist inflow. A couple of large lowerings looked like a little tornado-like, and had decent rotation, but we did not observe any touchdowns.
The first image of the three above is looking NNE on the west side of Boise City. The rainbow was very odd — a double rainbow with a third one sticking out from the inner one. I have never seen that before.
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