Waiting

Today's photo is from June 6, 2009. A Vortex 2 probe team member waits as a supercell slowly develops in the distance and slides towards his position. They were out in Western Nebraska that day -- and they didn't catch much off of this storm, unfortunately. This would have been a great storm to have had a tornado as it was literally in the middle of nowhere and likely wouldn't have threatened so much as a cow. I did have a bit of a run in with golf-ball sized hail a little after this was shot, but a little-known fact is that hail often comes in different consistencies. Sometimes it's really hard, sometimes it's a bit softer. Luckily this was the "softer" kind, so even though the whole car reverberated each time a stone struck and I could literally see my windshield wobbling with every hit, it did no real damage to my car.