Pop up storms and lightning | San Francisco Volcanic Field | 27 September 2021 — Jeremy Perez

Published on September 27, 2021

Watching to see what happens in the volcanic field north of Flagstaff. 0000Z

Nicely sculpted even if lightning is scarce.

Holding short of the Navajo Reservation boundary. 0101Z

Sunset lightning was scarce, but a few CGs made it through. 0106Z

Sunset was hot! Not a bad lowering either. 0115Z

Zoomed in at 130mm worked out for at least one strike. 0135Z

Another multicell pulse against the sunset. 0144Z

Good twilight color as the next south-moving cell lit up the horizon. 0152Z & 0159Z

Jeremy Perez

I'm a commercial graphic artist and art director living in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. I've been photographing monsoon storms and lightning since the eighties. I started chasing severe weather on the Great Plains in 2010. I usually chase solo or with my now adult children. When chasing the Plains, targeting to document a tornado is usually the goal. I'm relieved to say that as hard as that goal is to hit, I'm also captivated by the other sights along the way—the vast horizons, small towns, lightning, storm structure and whatever else gets rolled into that hard-to-reach goal. To date, I've documented 40 tornadoes on 23 storms. Some of them were hazy, mushy views—but a few spectacles stand out and keep me coming back for more: Bowdle, Rozel, Dodge City, Chapman, Ft. Stockton x 2 & Meteor Crater. After plains season each year, the southwest monsoon will be waiting to get started and hopefully opportunities for lightning, haboobs and always hope for a rare landspout.

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