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After driving to Wichita Falls yesterday we have a relatively short trip of just over 120 miles to DFW airport, for our flight later today. The journey home is soon to start!
Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Tuesday, 6 June 2017
5th June - report
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The drive to Dallas continued today with around 540 miles driven from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Amarillo, Texas.
We saw a few thunderstorms en route, as we drove south along I-25, close to the Front Range of the Rockies. The strongest of these were close to Raton, New Mexico. We paused and viewed them for a few mins. We also encountered some small hail, up to around 0.5 inches across.
The drive to Dallas continued today with around 540 miles driven from Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Amarillo, Texas.
We saw a few thunderstorms en route, as we drove south along I-25, close to the Front Range of the Rockies. The strongest of these were close to Raton, New Mexico. We paused and viewed them for a few mins. We also encountered some small hail, up to around 0.5 inches across.
Grab from a short video showing a CG lightning bolt.
Storm east of Raton, NM.
We saw quite a lot of mammatus today - some here seen east of Raton, NM.
Monday, 5 June 2017
June 4th - driving
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After a relaxing start to the day with a massage at the resort (for me anyway - Helen opted for a bit more of a lie in), we drove the 440 miles from Teteon to Cheyenne, as we start to make our way back to Dallas for Wednesday.
After a relaxing start to the day with a massage at the resort (for me anyway - Helen opted for a bit more of a lie in), we drove the 440 miles from Teteon to Cheyenne, as we start to make our way back to Dallas for Wednesday.
Sunday, 4 June 2017
June 3rd - sunshine and hot springs
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Today we did something we've wanted to do for a long time: visit the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
Neither disappointed: Grand Teton with its beautiful mountain vistas, and Yellowstone with its geological finery. To top it off there was still a reasonable amount of snow about in places too!
Rather than write down what we did, a few pics are below. Basically we drove north through Grand Teton, and then did a clockwise lower loop of Yellowstone, including Old Faithful, which we saw erupt.
It was a long day of driving quite slowly, but more than worth it! Including the sunburn!
A few of the many pics I took below.
Today we did something we've wanted to do for a long time: visit the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks.
Neither disappointed: Grand Teton with its beautiful mountain vistas, and Yellowstone with its geological finery. To top it off there was still a reasonable amount of snow about in places too!
Rather than write down what we did, a few pics are below. Basically we drove north through Grand Teton, and then did a clockwise lower loop of Yellowstone, including Old Faithful, which we saw erupt.
It was a long day of driving quite slowly, but more than worth it! Including the sunburn!
A few of the many pics I took below.
Teton Range reflected in lake.
Grand Teton.
River and snow.
Frozen lake.
Old Faithful.
Same.
Grand Prismatic Spring.
Osprey - we saw this dive into the river right in front of us!
Waterfall.
Yellowstone Lake.
Saturday, 3 June 2017
June 2nd...to Teton!
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As chase-worthy storms are going to be at a premium we've headed to Teton Village in Wyoming, for some sightseeing. Tomorrow we aim to see some of Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks.
As chase-worthy storms are going to be at a premium we've headed to Teton Village in Wyoming, for some sightseeing. Tomorrow we aim to see some of Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks.
Friday, 2 June 2017
June 1st
Drove 430 miles from Hays, Kansas, to Cheyenne, Wyoming. Just for fun.
Mammatus outside the hotel window in Cheyenne - taken with my iPad.
Thursday, 1 June 2017
May 31st report
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Today there was a broad marginal to slight risk of severe thunderstorms from portions of the western High Plains east-southeastwards into eastern Kansas and portions of Missouri. A slow-moving frontal boundary was close-by as well as several outflow boundaries.
We decided to target the I-70 corridor to the west of Salina, and headed to Russell for lunch. We then spent several hours there, whilst a number of storms formed south-east of us, near and east of Newton, along an outflow boundary. We held firm, watching a confluence zone near and south-east of Goodland which had gradually deepening convective circulations along it. A couple of showers formed south-east of Colby and so we departed and headed west, past Hays, to WaKeeney. We waited there for a bit as the showers deepened, and became thunderstorms. We then dropped south.
We observed an organised thunderstorm north of Ransom, which exhibited supercell structure for a time, before it become somewhat messier. However, we did observed a brief wall cloud which appeared to be from an occluded low-level mesocyclone.
We dropped further south to Ness City, and then east, and then north to Hays, observing some great lightning.
It was a good chase after a long afternoon waiting for initiation in our target area.
Today there was a broad marginal to slight risk of severe thunderstorms from portions of the western High Plains east-southeastwards into eastern Kansas and portions of Missouri. A slow-moving frontal boundary was close-by as well as several outflow boundaries.
We decided to target the I-70 corridor to the west of Salina, and headed to Russell for lunch. We then spent several hours there, whilst a number of storms formed south-east of us, near and east of Newton, along an outflow boundary. We held firm, watching a confluence zone near and south-east of Goodland which had gradually deepening convective circulations along it. A couple of showers formed south-east of Colby and so we departed and headed west, past Hays, to WaKeeney. We waited there for a bit as the showers deepened, and became thunderstorms. We then dropped south.
We observed an organised thunderstorm north of Ransom, which exhibited supercell structure for a time, before it become somewhat messier. However, we did observed a brief wall cloud which appeared to be from an occluded low-level mesocyclone.
We dropped further south to Ness City, and then east, and then north to Hays, observing some great lightning.
It was a good chase after a long afternoon waiting for initiation in our target area.
Random F-14 in WaKeeney, Kansas.
Supercell north of Ransom, KS.
Occluded low-level mesocyclone north of Ness City, KS.
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