Teasing Sky That Never Materialized

As we headed to our cars following our softball game at Noelridge Park in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on the evening of Monday, May 20, 2013, the sky in certain directions appeared tantalizing. With reports of advancing severe weather in Central Iowa to the west conditions promised to be advantageous for some photo opportunities. This however was about the best it would get on this night as the storms from the west lost energy and died out at Cedar Rapids' doorstep. This image shows mammatus formations at about 20,000 feet on the underside of an anvil belonging to a storm system to the ESE and looks over Harding Middle School, location near the ball diamonds at Noelridge Park. Photo capture time was about 8:15 PM. Below is a radar screen capture comparable to the image above with the white arrow showing the camera's view.