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A stormy day at the wind farm. Mammatus clouds.
About this photo:
I had just driven about 10 miles from an overlook above the Columbia River near Vantage Washington. I had intended to do some shooting of that dramatic gorge where the Columbia River cuts deeply through the high steepe country of Eastern Washington. However, a tremendous thunder and lightening storm drove me away.
The lightening above the gorge was spectacular. It filled the sky with fingers of lightning which shot from sky to earth and danced horizontally just below the cloud base. Even if I had wanted to take a few images of the storm, it would have been impossible because as well as the constant and multiple lightening strikes all around the car; the wind was whipping at at least 70 mph.
I have only been in one other thunderstrom that compared to this one, and it was in Waco Texas some years back which also spawned several tornadoes.
From a safer distance, this is what a small slice of that Eastern Washington summer thunderstorm looked like.
A stormy day at the wind farm. Mammatus clouds.
About this photo:
I had just driven about 10 miles from an overlook above the Columbia River near Vantage Washington. I had intended to do some shooting of that dramatic gorge where the Columbia River cuts deeply through the high steepe country of Eastern Washington. However, a tremendous thunder and lightening storm drove me away.
The lightening above the gorge was spectacular. It filled the sky with fingers of lightning which shot from sky to earth and danced horizontally just below the cloud base. Even if I had wanted to take a few images of the storm, it would have been impossible because as well as the constant and multiple lightening strikes all around the car; the wind was whipping at at least 70 mph.
I have only been in one other thunderstrom that compared to this one, and it was in Waco Texas some years back which also spawned several tornadoes.
From a safer distance, this is what a small slice of that Eastern Washington summer thunderstorm looked like.