May 23rd report

Hello.

We started the day in eastern Denver, knowing that our aerial was likely to arrive at some point - we'd received the exciting news that it had got to Denver, and was out for delivery! We packed up and left the motel at 11am and drove to the previous motel, and engaged in some kind of stake out, outside the hotel, waiting for the USPS delivery to arrive!

A storm then developed so we headed a few hundred yards away to get a look at it - quickly we then noticed that the status of the package had changed to 'delivered'! We legged it back, picked up the package, installed the aerial, and we were 'good to go'.

We headed NE on I-76 - our storm had developed into a weak supercell, and we got a few nice pics before it fell apart.

We continued north-east to Fort Morgan and got some lunch. We then noticed a new storm or two had developed, and so we continued NE and then N to Sidney, Nebraska, and then east, briefly saying hi to Mike Olbinski in the process.

We paused at a rest area near Big Springs (after a short stop beforehand)  and saw some pretty cool structure on the storm to our NW. We continued east and then north towards Oshkosh, pausing to get further pics and some timelapse. Nathan Edwards joined us and it was great to catch-up.

He headed off, and we did too, heading east from Oshkosh. We found a nice spot overlooking Lake McCanaughy and got some shots of the storm as it moved away.

We then headed to North Platte for the night, where we met Jimmy Deguara from Australia in Applebee's, and we ate dinner together. Nathan joined us too and we had a nice catch-up and de-brief.

All in all a lovely day's chasing. And funny to think the last time we were in North Platte was 2 days before the total eclipse last August.

Here are a few pics.