Arizona Storm Chase - 8 August 2015

More storms showing up with couplets this day, but I didn't manage to intercept them during prime structure. The landscape made up for a lot of those issues. These shots are from Hwy 89 north of Flagstaff along the Mogollon Rim/Colorado River Valley margin.

A scud bomb merging into the updraft between Sunset Crater and Wupatki National Monuments.
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More disorganized convection playing with sunbeams north of the San Francisco Peaks.
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Benign convection percolating as the atmosphere begins to stabilize.
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Sunset Crater is trying to peek between the trees on the right.
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Convection has turned to mush almost everywhere, leaving a great sunset aftermath—just northwest of Sunset Crater National Monument, looking toward the San Francisco Peaks.

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