Monsoon 2018, Sun City West, Arizona

The monsoons have taken it up a notch in the last week and we were able to take a quick trip out a few nights ago to take some shots of the storm. We're hoping for some more storm action this week as hurricanes start picking up steam in the Pacific!

Southwest Air jets are waiting to taxi during an Arizona monsoon thunderstorm during the 2018 monsoon season

Raton, NM on a Slight Risk day. Worth every hail dent!

Timelapse still

Near Double Eagle Airport, ABQ

Monsoon 2018

Day after day of glorious storms!

Albuquerque cityscape from a favorite vantage point

6D/Rokinon 85mm 1.4

Getting trashy.

6D/Rokinon 14mm

6D/Rokinon 85mm/ISO250/15sec

Tail end of the epic mammatus day in ABQ. Glad the core swung east :)

7.23.18

Grateful the skies opened at the end for us!

Abo Ruins at Salinas Pueblo Missions, New Mexico

Monsoon Lightning Storm north of Rio Rancho in August 2018.

A heavy monsoonal downpour dumps on the Tonto National Forest northwest of Payson - Mogollon Rim, Coconino National Forest, Arizona

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This evening, Sun City West. Arizona

It was a dark and stormy afternoon on the Mogollon Rim

- Coconino National Forest, Arizona

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An awesome looking cumulonimbus cloud aglow in the sunset light - Sonoran Desert, Phoenix, Arizona

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This part of the Sonoran desert received some significant rainfall from a heavy monsoon thunderstorm a few weeks ago. Flash flooding occurred in the usually-dry washes and arroyos. The rainfall triggered the Ocotillo to erupt in leaves and the sparse desert vegetation has become noticeably greener.

- La Paz County, Arizona

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This photo may look like the color was changed to Sepia, but it's actually an unedited image captured inside an intense Haboob* that engulfed my neighborhood - Phoenix, Arizona

* A haboob (Arabic: هَبوب‎, translit. habūb, lit. 'blasting/drifting') is a type of intense dust storm carried on an atmospheric gravity current, also known as a weather front. Haboobs occur regularly in dry land area regions throughout the world. (See photos below)

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A stormy evening on the Mogollon Rim - Coconino National Forest, Arizona

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Amazingly weird clouds in a stormy evening sky - Sonoran Desert, Phoenix, Arizona

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On the way home to Tucson, I stopped by an old stompin' ground, Marsh Station, and caught this cell during sunset. Although I have plenty of shots of this cell with lightning hitting the ground, the backlit rain shaft was my favorite.

A billowing cumulonimbus cloud aglow in the sunset light

- Phoenix, Arizona

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Moonlight beauty.

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature...

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Here is the timelapse to watch

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Sun City West, Arizona

8/18/18

Sometimes you just have to stop and take it all in.

- Yavapai County, Arizona

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