A solid day of lightning in the Grand Canyon

Storms fired early today and moved northeast through Western and Northern Arizona ahead of a vigorous upper wave. This resulted in some tropical looking thunderstorms over the Grand Canyon with very heavy rain and lots of lightning. Here’s a small sample of what we saw below.

After the storm, subsidence was the name of the game with high clouds from storms to the south invading our chance at recovery. We’ll be trying again tomorrow for some Canyon bolts!