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You are here: Home / 2016 / March 21, 2016 Trona Lenticular Clouds

March 21, 2016 Trona Lenticular Clouds

March 21, 2016 By Bill 1 Comment

 

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This is Part 2 of my lenticular cloud chase this day.  Part One is here.  From the Lone Pine area in Owens Valley, I motored south and east in order to near relatively new wave cloud development.  The new formations seemed to be in and around the Panamint Mountains, to the east-southeast, and south of there.  There were also some spaceship-shaped lenticulars to my south, around Ridgecrest.  I decided to head south on 395 from Olancha instead of taking 190 to the east.  I 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.

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

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










 

 

 

Filed Under: 2016, Desert, Mid and High Clouds, Nighttime photography, Unusual Clouds, Wind and Dust

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  1. VickiB says

    May 18, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    Hi Bill,

    As you can see, I registered with the Stormbruiser site, and am enjoying reading your accounts of not only storm chasing, but cloud chasing. The sunset shots are breathtaking, and now I am thinking of buying not only the Wray, CO tornado shot and the lightning shot, but the sunset as well. Since there are 64 pages, I will have to read a little at a time.

    Vicki

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