Thunderstorm with mammatus preceding heavy rain in Ivins, Utah, USA. 

I wish I could take credit for creating them! Thanks.

0:40 What in fudge?

I decided to take my camera and head inside. One time I left it out for a long time lapse and a nearby lightning strike fried it.

@@bmbelkowas there lightning?

@@Mjjfanforever988 yes. Not as much as you’d see in a southern US storm but quite a bit.

@@bmbelko was there a supercell?

@@Mjjfanforever988 more than likely a small one with a broad mesocyclone but I don’t have access to the higher NEXRAD tilts to determine that.

The one on “top” in the background is the anvil top of a distant thunderstorm. The anvil or a cumulonimbus.

Surely it was in the night time, right...?

Mid afternoon.

Wow.

@@ProCoderG I kept checking on the clouds and it was getting….apocalyptic.

​@@ProCoderGno wrong

That is true. Lucked out. It’s not been the same since. Drought is returning, overall.

True.

@sillysilv72 It was scary. We had several flash floods in the area.

@bmbelko up north here, getting flash floods is rare.

wait was it a tornadic supercell

@@ClodsireOnCloud9 it did not produce tornadoes. But I do not have access to the WSR-88D radar’s volume scans that can detect mesocyclones and tornado vortex signatures.

It’s outside St. George, Utah taken from my front yard on a small tripod set up on my garbage can. You can Google Image search St. George and see pictures of palm trees all over the region.

@@bmbelko Yep, you're right man. Man, I always thought Utah was too temperate for palm trees, guess not.

@@gabelukasko6589 they are not native. They’re Mexican palms but they do well in this part of the state. They CAN freeze if it gets brutal. We’ve had temps in the single digits above zero Fahrenheit and they were stressed but came back. We are in the northern Mojave Desert around 2800 feet elevation.

Thank you, Beautiful Korea.