Stretch Of Cumulus

This line of convection cumulus stretched along the eastern horizon for nearly 225 miles making for a striking contrast to the rest of the sky, which contained only dots of fair weather cumulus. The top photo looks southeast around 3:53 PM, Friday July 26, 2013 along Highway 13, about one mile north of Radio Road, just northeast of Marion, Iowa. In the background at center are the transmitter towers of WMT AM 600. The bottom image was photographed around 3:36 PM from Prairie Chapel Road, about .4-mile east of County Road X20 one mile northeast of the town of Whitier.