Late Summer Rotation

Today we've been dealing with a winter-type Pacific trough coming across New Mexico with a good, juicy tap of moisture. There must be something encouraging helicity as well, because a nice little rotating updraft has been making it's way up the Jemez mountains this evening.


While there's been very little lightning at all today, and none that I could see with this storm, the thing actually had a little wall cloud working for it:




But by the time I got the 300mm lens on my camera, it had gone soft, although it persisted for a good 15 minutes in this soft form: