Pluto loves Charon

I've been inspired by all of the recent response to the New Horizons spacecraft's flyby of Pluto, especially by this silly video of Stephen Colbert and Neil deGrasse Tyson discussing Pluto's planetary status. So, I drew this...

Happy Pluto flyby! 

Video: Growing storm anvil

I thought this storm building out west would move over us, but it never did. It just grew bigger and bigger and then eventually moved up to the north before petering off. What can you say? Summertime storms!

Video: June Lightning Storm

A storm rolled through this afternoon. I didn't really notice it until the room got so dark I had to turn on a light! I grabbed my camera just in time to capture 15 minutes of the heart of the storm. It was a very electrically-active storm. There are quite a few lightning strikes in the video, and twice as many again, I would say, that the camera didn't catch.