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rain wall, mojave desert

Weather patterns flow across the globe of a world we live on. A rain wall in the Mojave desert flies across the ocean and touches down as lightening in a corn field in Boston, Lincolnshire, UK.

When the storm hits we gather up our summer picnic of strawberries and lemonade and rush inside. We take shelter and wait it out until the storm subsides, moving on towards France or Russia where it blows itself out.

But others, they run towards the storm. They check radar imagery and they track that storm across the desert. They watch and they wait. Then when the supercell is charged and ready to burst, they capture the moment.

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