Today’s training ride was about 35 miles, out to NE 122nd and Westminster. It had been raining overnight. The humidity remained quite high and the scudding clouds east of us still brought a little drizzle. I got damp on my ride out in the countryside, but looking back west where the skies were clearing, we had some dramatic formations drifting across the horizon. These are not rain clouds, but the result of upper atmosphere moisture that could cause rain. Given a little instability, those would become thunderheads.
Once I got back into town, the formations had changed a bit. The winds aloft are still blowing this moisture inland (northward here in Oklahoma) and will result in rough weather somewhere up north, maybe around the Great Lakes. The park below is the newest one finished just about a year ago. The old Midwest City clock tower stands over what was once the municipal offices, but they were moved a long time ago.
Even with objects on the ground for scale, it’s still really hard to really grasp how enormous those cloud formations really are.