{"id":1920,"date":"2023-05-26T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=1920"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:24:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:24:56","slug":"26-may-2023-artesia-to-milnesand-new-mexico-cap-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2023\/05\/26\/26-may-2023-artesia-to-milnesand-new-mexico-cap-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"26 May 2023 | Artesia to Milnesand, New Mexico | Cap Bust"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This was a day of bad forecast choices. I liked the enhanced H5 flow, shear and greater instability in the southeast corner of the state and we targeted Roswell and points south\/southeast. Convection was firing by early afternoon up near Albuquerque and as 00Z approached, it sounded like fun times up there with social media indicating people bailing on the south option. I decided to hang with it though and we were rewarded with clear skies. Approaching sunset, we did get a short-lived attempt at an updraft and some lovely crepuscular rays near Artesia. But yeah, not really what I was after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Crepuscular display west of Artesia. 0106Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After sunset, we cruised north & east of Roswell and I tried for some sprite photography of a storm 60 or so miles away up near Elida. Bright moonlight made for bad contrast on a storm that probably wasn’t producing those anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking northeast of Roswell, at essentially nothing in terms of sprite action. 0303Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On the chance that cell would survive a while longer, we headed closer and had a look up west of Milnesand. Lots of low level clouds obscured any real structure and after getting a few shots, we called it a day and hoped for better on the 27th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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At least we did see a storm before midnight. Mostly obscured supercell NW of Milnesand. 0556Z<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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This was a day of bad forecast choices. I liked the enhanced H5 flow, shear and greater instability in the southeast corner of the state and we targeted Roswell and points south\/southeast. Convection was firing by early afternoon up near Albuquerque and as 00Z approached, it sounded like fun times up there with social media […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[78,50,40],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-new-mexico","tag-storm-chasing","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}