Sferic Data Collect California/Arizona April 2010

These are a few of the many pictures I took while collecting sferics - signals produced by lightning. The original plan called for picking up the sferic receivers in San Diego, driving to Tucson, then collecting data from Tucson to Denver. But due to some problems with the receivers I ended up coming back to San Diego and then taking the receivers up California's Central Valley as far as Chico. It was a long drive, but this was the right time of year to do it. Because of recent rainfall the deserts were in bloom, distant peaks were snow capped, and temperatures were still mild.

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Sferic Data Collect