Picture of the Day - Ominous Yet Beautiful

A deep center of low pressure (an unseasonably intense autumn storm) rolled into an approach pattern just offshore of the Pacific Northwest without making landfall the past couple of days. It wrapped and continues to wrap a fetch of subtropical moisture into itself which passed and continues over California the past couple of days bringing periods of intense local wind, rain, and lightning. The image below was captured this morning in the Inland Empire region by an employee of CAL FIRE/Riverside County Fire Department (all rights reserved).