Thursday 10th August 2017 - Green Valley and Lower Deserts

Our 2nd day of the Monsoon saw us heading South and East once again so it was a carbon copy of Wednesday and an 11am leave towards Tucson. After a quick lunch in Jasons Deli we headed south to a quite strong storm south of Green Valley along I-19. We stopped near Agua Linda Farm at a decent viewpoint overlooking a nice Mountain to our south and shared a dirt road with Arizona Chaser Lori Bailey. This storm was moving quite quickly for Arizona Standards to the WNW at about 25mph. There was some really nice Lightning with this storm with great colours.After this storm rumbled its way west towards Organ Pipe we headed back North towards a new storm that was really starting to get strong near Tucson. This storm we later learned caused considerable damage over eastern parts of Tucson with a wet microburst ongoing - See Pic below.This storm then continued to head North Westwards towards Marana and started to initiate a small Haboob which we just about kept ahead of. The Interstate started to get a little bit clogged up with blowing dust and after re-fuelling up we went east just south of Picachu Peak and found an amazing little road that would be good for a later date for either Lightning or Astro Photography. As we headed east another storm initiated from the outflow of the haboob ongoing to our west now near Casa Grande. This little storm was situated between Florence and Oracle Junction and spat out a few Cg bolts before dying away before sunset.