Photo Linkage

I was chasing up a hit in SiteMeter a few minutes ago and stumbled upon some pretty nice photography taken around Portales during June of 2007. The folks at StormBruiser are in to chasing tornadoes... which, to my way of thinking, is a lot like poking around in bear dens. It might be exciting but rational people just don't DO that sort of thing. An excerpt from the link:

Rain and small hail descended upon us soon after these photos were taken. The cell was unable to develop strong, sustained, and tight rotation at low levels apparently, though it seemed like it wanted to get serious about tornado-making for a few minutes on the approach to Portales. We departed Portales and attempted to get southeast of the updraft base again, but heavy precipitation slowed us down some. Brian’s minivan came up lame with a flat tire, so we waited out the core and were treated to a brilliant mammatus and rainbow display on the west side of the storm before sunset.

The photos are just pretty danged cool... and illustrate one of the better things about living in these parts: brilliant vistas. We DID have some interesting weather in June of 2007. Here's a shot out my back door, four days after the shots at StormBruiser were taken.

This shot isn't nearly as good as the pics at the link... but dramatic, none the less. As taken... no P-shopping here....those are the colors as viewed in "real life."