{"id":790,"date":"2015-08-08T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/?p=790"},"modified":"2026-01-12T05:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T05:28:28","slug":"8-august-2015-northern-arizona-storm-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2015\/08\/08\/8-august-2015-northern-arizona-storm-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"8 August 2015 | Northern Arizona | Storm Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More storms showing up with couplets this day, but I didn&#8217;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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A scud bomb merging into the updraft between Sunset Crater and Wupatki National Monuments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_7988_lg-1024x683.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_7988_lg-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_7988_lg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_7988_lg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_7988_lg-768x512.jpg 768w, 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src=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8409_lg-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8409_lg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8409_lg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8409_lg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8409_lg-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8409_lg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunset Crater is trying to peek between the trees on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2015\/08\/08\/8-august-2015-northern-arizona-storm-chase\/img20150808_20150808-img_8421_lg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8421_lg-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-794\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8421_lg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8421_lg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8421_lg-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8421_lg-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8421_lg.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Convection has turned to mush almost everywhere, leaving a great sunset aftermath\u2014just northwest of Sunset Crater National Monument, looking toward the San Francisco Peaks.\u2028<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/2015\/08\/08\/8-august-2015-northern-arizona-storm-chase\/img20150808_20150808-img_8428_lg\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" data-id=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8428_lg-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/img20150808_20150808-IMG_8428_lg-1024x683.jpg 1024w, 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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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,40],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storm-chase","tag-arizona","tag-storms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","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=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/ceruleanarc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}