Wednesday - we get rained on!!

Since we expected rain and storms today (and since in the past we always arrive too late for the action), we gathered at 7 am to get an early start. This lasted all of 5 minutes as it was decided that it was VITAL to drive across the street to Starbucks. Imagine many of us in line for coffee, combined with a herd of bikers doing the same (and probably on their way to Sturgis). So really, we left at 7:30, but that got us into Flagstaff at 2:30!! We had lunch in Seligman at the Roadkill Cafe, a charming little joint. "You kill it-we grill it".



As you can see, the skies were getting more interesting, and as we approached Flagstaff we decided to focus on one good-looking cell to the south. So we shot south on I-17 towards Phoenix, descending rapidly over the rim, and found a fine place to stop and view. Unfortunately, the "good" cell had beat us east of I-17 and was dissipating, but we got great views of numerous showers to the west, south and east.



In fact that seemed to be a theme for the day...cells all around FLG but none over it. A spell that broke at about 9 pm in the middle of our forecasting session. Thanks to Allison for noticing the sound of rain outside. Seconds later we were all standing out in a downpour like kids! Big fat cold raindrops, lightning and thunder - all chased us in pretty quickly!

Oh - and thanks too to Allison for the highly entertaining reaction - almost interpretive dance really - to a massive giant bug that flew in and around. It was the size of a small hummingbird, so it could have been one of those new drone things!!! But it's dead now, thanks to Craig-the-bug-killer.