Thursday, June 14, 2012

13th of June 2012: The letdown - no storm today...

Lubbock, Texas to Goodland, Kansas. 

Well it was bound to happen after an active storm chase so far, today was a bit of a let down. (although we did carry on our streak of consecutive days of seeing lightning between midnight and midnight as it was still flashing away after midnight in Lubbock as we went to sleep).

After waking up, we drove from Lubbock Texas up to southeastern Colorado hoping for storms to develop. We did see a little bit of dry convection (large cumulonimbus cloud that isn't producing rain at the ground) in the high plains of eastern Colorado, but alas no storm. It was probably too dry and with not enough instability and forcing it meant nothing could get going. So we carried on northwards and stayed the night in Goodland Kansas. Hoping for another round of storms to develop across western and central Kansas on Thursday afternoon.

Here are a few pics from our drive up through eastern Colorado:

South of Lamar, Colorado
South of Lamar, Colorado
Kit Carson County, Colorado
Kit Carson County, Colorado
Kit Carson County, Colorado





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