The
Arizona Monsoon
Photography by Gene Rhoden
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Saguaro cactus, a protected plant common to a narrow set of elevations in the Sonoran desert, is illuminated here by a classic forked cloud-to-ground discharge.
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A brilliant rainbow adds the final touch to the Superstition mountains bathed in the golden light of a summer evening. |
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| An eerie pink hue adorns low-level clouds as
lightning spikes the horizon ahead of an approaching monsoon storm north of Florence
Arizona.
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A severe monsoonal thunderstorm is seen here with it's overshooting top south of Payson AZ. |
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| A panorama of vivid lightning
serves as the backdrop to some foothills southeast of Queen Creek Arizona.
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Golden mammatus bubbles over a mix of mesquite trees and saguaro cactus at sunset near Florence Junction Arizona. |
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| A fiery sunset compliments this sillouette of a saguaro cactus near Apache Junction Arizona. | Lenticular shaped altostratus clouds and
cirrus add bands of rosey red to a sky over Sunset Crater Volcano Nat'l Monument
northeast of Flagstaff Arizona.
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