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Reports & Pictures Chase Day 8 - Arizona


Paul Sherman

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley

Today was another Insane Monsoon Storm Chase and it comes to something when we know there will be Storms just knowing a good vantage point becomes the hard part, we made it 9 out of 9 Days for the Trip for Storms. The SE Flow is really cranking up the Night-Time Lightning now so another trip towards Tucson was the order of the day, leaving the Hotel in Phoenix at 4pm and driving towards Tucson for Sunset. Storms were off to the SE Of Tucson tonight so no great vantage point over Mount Lemmon, instead a drive to the Desert Floor and some Amazing Lightning Pictures. Here are just 4 of the 50 Lightning Pictures I shot. More crazy Storms Later Today.

Paul S

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  • Location: Purley, Surrey - 246 Ft ASL
  • Weather Preferences: January 1987 / July 2006
  • Location: Purley, Surrey - 246 Ft ASL

Wow!

Are storms pretty much guaranteed during this time of the year or have you just been very lucky?

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley

It is the Monsoon Season over here from around the 1st July until the 15th September. You get Burst or Break Modes over here, but for a 10 day trip you should see action at least 5 Days of the Trip. We are on 9 out of 9 but still have not even had a Slight Risk or See Text Risk from the SPC! The Monsoon Season has been pretty much 24/7 since about July 5th non stop this year.

Paul S

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  • Location: West Sussex
  • Weather Preferences: Outdoors
  • Location: West Sussex

Every time I see the shots, I think of Pat imploding with excitement in a lightning frenzy with 6 cameras on the go and him spinning in circles shouting random swear words at each flash. We have to get him out there just for the entertainment value!

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  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)
  • Location: Caterham-on-the-hill, Surrey, 190m asl (home), Heathrow (work)

Gob smacked by the lightning shots again ohmy.png

I really think you should persuade your missus and the kids to move out there Paul, when the storms have left the Plains by late summer you can hop back to Arizona for several weeks of daily lightning storms. Though you may get sick of the 100F+ heat after a while and be begging for the cool damp thunderless summers back in blighty.

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  • Location: Milton Keynes
  • Location: Milton Keynes

Another day at the office yahoo.gif

We had rainbows, dust devils, dust storms and crazy outflow winds today, everyday throws up something different here, incredible !!

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Going for 10 out of 10 today !!!!!

Craig

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  • Location: Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire
  • Weather Preferences: Stormy...
  • Location: Stanstead Abbotts, Hertfordshire

OK my turn, not as good as the Boys but I like to add a female touch :

Shelf cloud ? :

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Rainbow :

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Sunset & Mammatus :

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Lightening (you remain my nemisis!!):

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More Lightening :

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  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley
  • Location: Leigh On Sea - Essex & Tornado Alley

8 More Pictures from me from the 50 - Love number 26 with the Structure

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  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk
  • Weather Preferences: Sunshine. And storms
  • Location: Garvestone, Norfolk

Fantastic stuff :D Obviously I shall have to plan a trip because it's the only way I'm ever going to get a lightning pic (the UK has been on strike as far as night storms go....bad pun alert....)

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  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset
  • Weather Preferences: Hot sunny , cold and snowy, thunderstorms
  • Location: Weston-S-Mare North Somerset

What a show, well worth the trip I bet.

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