Asperatus Event Phoenix Arizona

[Michael Lerch]

On Teusday , Jan 27 2015, weather systems flowing up from Mexico brought some Asperatus over the middle of the Valley and over the eastern Valley as well, separated yet at the same time. I saw the leading edge of it all and was able to get permission to leave work and take photos of the goings on overhead.

The mid morning lighting was just right and made for some crisp viewing of the overhead drama. Ian has posted two photos I submitted for the gallery . I add a few more photos with this thread. It was the kind of viewing experience that made for complete abandonment of knowing where one was, and what it was one was doing. The asperatus field had lots of movement inside of it, and as a field, moved south to north quickly as well. Then, a turn of the head and seeing other asperatus ,to the west, being dramatic over central Phoenix as well….Wow. It was all over in about a half an hour, but what a half an hour. I was brought to awe.

A couple of close ups and the general idea;

[Helen Mills]

Wow! – good that you have a sympathetic employer so you could take these beautiful images and post them for us. The scale, the detail and the fantastic shades of blue-grey are wonderful. If as Baudelaire said clouds are the shifting architecture of the sky, then surely asperatus are the living, moving anatomy.

[Søren Hauge]

Fantastic. Great sharing :)

[Gavin Pretor-Pinney]

Mike, those are such classic examples of asperatus! Well done for spotting it and for taking these beautiful photographs.

[Gini Wells]

Lucky you, Mike, that you could experience this at first hand: lucky us that you have shared them with us – many thanks – wonderful images.

[Ian Loxley]

Yes indeed, ditto all comments, thanks Mike for sharing these delightful captures with us.

[Michael Lerch]

Thank You All. CAS allows the asperatus event to further its influence. Thank You CAS for being here.

A few more shots of the event. The first one is almost straight overhead, up into a updraft or pocket part of the undulation.

[Dillon Browne]

Thanks for sharing more photos with us. They really are staggering. Even though they are stills the movement shows up well. And all over in half an hour – it just shows that we all need to keep our cameras within reach.

[Helen Mills]

Fantastic! Asperatus aren’t precipitation clouds are they? In the last picture where they seem to peter out and merge into a different formation (bottom centre of the shot) is that rain?

[Isabel Polledo]

Really really beautifull Michael

Thanks for sharing

[Zoe Addicott]

These are amazing! They remind me of pictures of the inside of the human body!Thank you for sharing.

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