{"id":1525,"date":"2021-05-25T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2026-01-18T05:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:32:26","slug":"25-may-2021-southwest-kansas-oklahoma-panhandle-cloudscapes-macro-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2021\/05\/25\/25-may-2021-southwest-kansas-oklahoma-panhandle-cloudscapes-macro-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"25 May 2021 | Southwest Kansas\u2013Oklahoma Panhandle | Cloudscapes & Macro Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This seemed likely to be a down day. I languished near the surface low between Meade and Ashland, Kansas, watching a few cumulus percolate through the afternoon. There was a small chance this area might send something nice up and I spent the time photographing cloudscapes across the prairie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bubbling cumulus east of Ashland, Kansas \u2014 2315Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Placid cloudscapes were all this area had to offer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

While I was there, I took the opportunity to shoot macro of some of the local critters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Once it was clear nothing was going to happen there, I raced south toward convection in the north Texas Panhandle for a shot at a sunset photo op. Hustling to the vicinity of Slapout, Oklahoma, and wandering the grid wound served up a gorgeous end to a low key down day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Abandoned building east of Slapout at sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Crepuscular sunset east of Slapout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mammatus sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sunset anvil and debris clouds<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Found hay bales and a windmill in the nick of time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Wrapping up the day with a lightning-whiskered time lapse \u2014 0235\/0244Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This seemed likely to be a down day. I languished near the surface low between Meade and Ashland, Kansas, watching a few cumulus percolate through the afternoon. There was a small chance this area might send something nice up and I spent the time photographing cloudscapes across the prairie. While I was there, I took […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,50,40],"class_list":["post-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-kansas","tag-oklahoma","tag-storm-chasing","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1525"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1543,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1525\/revisions\/1543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}