In that post, I mentioned in passing my other favorite storm chaser, Mike Olbinski.
Olbinski usually focuses on Arizona. Every year, in the mid to late summer moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean finds its way into the Desert Southwest, creating a "rainy season" of sorts. It's called the seasonal monsoon.
This rainy season in Arizona and surrounding areas consists of thunderstorms that develop over the region. Unlike the humid East, where haze often obscures the delicate yet powerful structures of thunderstorms, the visibility in the deserts remains great.
Most of what happens with the best of these thunderstorms are microbursts and haboobs, which are thunderstorm-generated dust storms.
Olbinski's beautiful time lapse videos usually focus on these microbursts and dust storms. When you speed up the footage of these phenomeneno, like Olbinski does, you really see the power of these storms.
As in the Pecos Hank video, I'm not going to provide you with the link, so you can click on it and give Olbinski more hits. At least I think that's how it works.
Just click on this sentence to view the video, called Monsoon V.
