Yesterday (June 20th), we were storm chasing eastern in Iowa. We saw a very well defined shelf cloud associated with a severe squall line which had horizontal rotation at Wayland, IA. This was from 7:00-7:05 PM CDT:
6 minutes later, and a little east of Wayland on highway 78:
A view from directly underneath the shelf cloud at the junction of 78 and US 218 at 7:14 PM:
While we were on our way home after the storm chase, we encountered a spectacular sunset near Muscatine, IA. We were able to see lightning from the storm to our east, a rainbow, crepuscular rays, and even anti-crepuscular rays. This was from 8:19-8:34 PM CDT.
I am a self taught meteorologist and storm chaser. Much of my original interest came from Joe D'Aleo. I was later interested in the work of Theodor Landscheidt. My views on politics and economics are very close to those of Walter E Williams.
