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Saturday evening view of the Superstition Mountains from Apache Junction, Arizona, USA

Saturday evening view of #SuperstitionMountains #ApacheJunction #AZ #wxcam #azwx kc4kqe.org

Picture of Pueblo Peak outside of Taos, NM tonight as a thunderstorm collides with sunset against the mountains, turning the landscape into a swarm of yellows, oranges, pinks, blues, and purples. Virga, rain that evaporates before falling to the ground, is visible. There is also a bright rainbow on the side of the mountain that my phone's camera can't adequately capture.

Sangre de Christo Mountains outside Taos in a sunset color festival of pinks, oranges, and purples as a thunderstorm moves through. Large rainbow visible against the mountains with thunder and lightning overhead. Heavy rain and wind starting just as I took this photo. No filters.

#NMWx

Radar image showing small area of rain and hail on western edge of Denver metro area.

Small hail around Bowles/C470.

COMMENTARY: Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah today. And so were schoolchildren in Colorado. Because of the sick delusion that violence solves problems. None of us is safe.

WATER IS FALLING FROM THE SKY IN DENVER

#COwx

Those are good-looking clouds.

There is a lightning bolt from cloud to ground on the right side of the frame. The clouds are illuminated purple around it. A few stars are visible in a break in the clouds above.

It is night. There is a storm over the mountains. There is a bright flash on the horizon where lightning strikes. The clouds are illuminated purple around it. Stars are visible in a break in the clouds above.

A lightning storm passed over/near Great Sand Dunes last night.

Crestone, Colorado USA August 19, 2025

#COwx

A bolt of lightning illuminates Superstition Mountain on the Eastern edge of the metro Phoenix, AZ area. Brilliant purples backlight the shafts of rain and illustrate the surface level wind generated by the storm moving left-to-right in this frame. Photo credit: Brian Blakesley Photography

#lightning #thunderstorm #monsoon #azwx #weather
Another shot of a thunderstorm over Superstition Mountain just outside Phoenix AZ. I love how the light shows the surface winds pushing along the front edge of the storm at right.

Good signal from a small quake this morning near Tucson on the east side of the Catalinas. #earthquake #tucson #raspberryshake

I love both the photos and the alt text!

Ok, but we’re not talking about Houston. That’s where the real humidity is.

I completely approve of this addiction.

I’ve been feeling completely cheated.

Shallow hail fog briefly formed this evening in Gunbarrel after accumulating hail and more than 1" of rain pummeled the area.

Hail fog is an unusual type of fog that forms shortly after a heavy hailstorm as the stones cool the air just above the ground to the dew point, resulting in fog #COWX

View of the William C. Wonders Map Collection in the morning before the lights are turned on.

The map collection “spoke so softly in accordance to the growing of the dim” *

An iridescent joy, soon to be washed out in an overburdened flash of fluorescents.

* #TragicallyHip – Three Pistols
#wcwmc

DC's air quality last night was around the worst in the country because of the fireworks... CODE PURPLE or hazardous.

It was still CODE RED this morning will improve today as the smoke disperses.

More at cwg.live

Exactly.

June 2025 SW Climate Podcast - Monsoon’s Gonna Monsoon: In this month’s Southwest Climate Podcast we are in the final countdown to the monsoon. #SWclimate #AZWx #NMWx climas.arizona.edu/podcast/june...

That was fun, at least where I was, in Lakewood. :-)

"I love thresher sharks because they look how I constantly feel." and a photo of a thresher shark from the side profile, showing only one eye, a slightly open mouth and snubby little nose. I think there's a watermark that says Paul Flandinette?

This meme asks a really good question about why the thresher shark has such expressive eyes & why those eyes always seem so concerned or shocked.

What's up, in other words, with the squaliform side-eye?

I have an answer!

A handful of pedestrians stroll through a shaft of evening sunlight slashing down on Congress St., downtown #Tucson.

Sending hugs.

YouTube video by Words Unravelled with RobWords and Jess Zafarris Where do swear words come from?

Wind F*cker is an old name for the Kestrel and I think we need to bring that back.

Need a laugh? Want to learn where the word f*ck really comes from? Check out the history of swear words.

youtu.be/NqvT3gVz2aw?...

#FCTucsonWomen get their second win in as many nights, edging #DesertDreamsFC 2-1, displacing DDFC for second place in Desert Conference of the #WPSL. More images from the game to be found here > tucne.ws/1sjh

black background, text fuckkkkkk with the warming stripes going from blue to red representing global temp rise

My version of #ShowYourStripes

I like this format, the possibilities are endless

A lovely emotional support octopus.

Nice data viz.

I honestly think part of the seductiveness of A.I. for people is the idea you can skip that vulnerableness you need to experience in order to grow as an artist.

Ugh.