IT RAINED!!!!!! I was starting to wonder whether or not we will ever see rain again around here. This morning I had to wake up early and take observations at the co-op station here in De Kalb and realized I felt sick. So, I decided to stay home and sleep in a bit after taking my observations. After a few hours, I woke up and noticed that it was a bit dark outside and glanced at the
radar.
Well, I saw that we had a nice shelf starting to form west of town. I grabbed my camera and took off out the door. I raced a few miles west to get into some clearing (I don't like buildings in my photos) and had just enough time to grab a few shots. I wanted to time lapse it but since I got a late start I didn't even have time to set up the tripod. Once I saw the rain coming I decided to race back east in hopes of getting ahead of it. Alas, very quickly realized it was surging out and my efforts were futile. Either way, I feel better! Cooler temps, rain, and an amazing looking shelf turns out to be pretty good medicine.
Well, after a few weeks without rain we got hit twice today. The second time around was a just a little scraping though. I decided to head south of town and try to get on the edge of a
mini-mcs, which quickly broke up into a multi-cell cluster, in hopes of grabbing some lightning. I was out there for about 20 minutes or so but once a bright CG flash hit about 500 feet from me I called it quits (realized life was more important). Below are the photos I caught using my wide-angle lens. The flashes were were much closer than they appear.
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