This was going to be a slow-moving, low-shear day—10-15kts—and kicked off with some more macro photography north of Pampa after a roadside boondock.
Blister beetle, hunting wasp, robber fly & a beetle of the Texas Panhandle.And a couple dung beetles honing their craft.
After that I headed east toward Oklahoma, with convection firing at my starting point a little before 20Z.
A couple sights on the way from the Panhandle to Arnett, Oklahoma — 1734-2223Z.
Although cells were individually migrating southward, a cluster out of the Panhandle was pushing eastward strongly enough to load the north side of all the convection with some excellent cloudscapes. So I surfed those for the rest of the day, starting at Higgins, Texas and moving up near Woodward, Oklahoma later.
Updrafts and shelves north of Higgins, Texas — 2300-2321Z.Taking windmills and bridges where I can get them — 2327-2331Z.Northwest of Harmon, Oklahoma — 0013Z.Rotating cogs on the lead edge of a surging gust front northwest of Harmon — 0017Z.Rippling cloudscapes from Harmon to Woodward — 0033-0110Z.Levitating structure — 0113Z.0114-0119Z.
The sunset mammatus display at the end of the day was fantastic.
Setting up to time lapse the drifting mammatus — 0047-0052Z.
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