Huge Thunderstorm over Superstition Mountains

[N74DV]

Certainly not the type of weather you want to be flying in but I find summer Tstorms amazingly beautiful!

The Anvil in this shot tops out at over 45,000' Listening to my handeld radio and the air traffic was vectoring like crazy!

I decided to brave the 30+mph winds and get a panoramic shot from one of our UAV choppers.

Link > T-Storm Panoramic



Here's looking west at the sunset just about 90 minutes later. A dust storm had just passed over giving off an orange hue.

Link > Sunset Pano

[M Towsley]

Re: Huge Thunderstorm over Superstition Mountains

DJ,

I remember riding motorcycles out to the superstitions with one of my brothers who lived by the White Tanks. Awesome shots. I don't think I remember a storm ever developing while we have visited out there.

[Ed O'Brien]

Re: Huge Thunderstorm over Superstition Mountains

DJ;
You have well captured the vivid beauty of a Phoenix Thunderstorm... and very nicely too! I can see why it's called the SUPERstition Mountains.

Thanks ED OBRIEN

[tawadc95]

Re: Huge Thunderstorm over Superstition Mountains

Incredible,
Clouds and weather are phenomenol to watch,so powerful compared to us.
In the middle of the sunset pic there is no houses....... is that a house circle done by the aliens residing in or around the Superstition MTS. as opposed to a crop circle?

[N74DV]

Re: Huge Thunderstorm over Superstition Mountains

is that a house circle done by the aliens residing in or around the Superstition MTS. as opposed to a crop circle?

next year that dirt will all be houses. the new housing project is set to start soon. Kind of a bummer.... too many damn houses out here. It's nice to have a patch of dirt here and there.

If there were only a way to capture the energy in a thunderstorm. We could probably power a city for weeks with the power of one good storm.

[taylorcraftbc65]

Re: Huge Thunderstorm over Superstition Mountains

I remember being up in Hugh Downs's Grob glider over Turf soaring school's field having raced back from halfway between the northwest edge of Lake Pleasant and Wikenburg watching some really bad storms building all the way back. When I made it over the field, I looked to the south, and saw a wall of sand about 1,000 feet high headed west towards Goodyear airport. The northern limit of the gust front was about 15 miles south of Turf, but I wasted no time in putting the ship on the ground, and getting her tied down REALLY WELL. Brie

[VictorBravo]

Re: Huge Thunderstorm over Superstition Mountains

We flew back from Oshkosh yesterday... Chicago - Denver - Los Angeles in an Airbus. Big T-storms and lightning on the ramp in Denver delayed our departure there.

The GPS unit in the seatback-screen thingie said we were 40,000 ft. over the leg from Grand Junction, CO into Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and we were STILL inside the cloud and experiencing light to moderate turbulence at that altitude!

No place for a Taylorcraft!