East Mesa Weather - sky cams

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To my SE are the Organ Mountains 9 miles away with Organ Needle being the highest point at 8,980 feet. Not much lightning but some great rolling cloud cover and the occasional fire.

This NW view is of the Dona Ana Mountains 7 miles away.
Dona Ana Peak is at 5,835 feet and some great lightning events roll thru that area.

To my NE is a NASA installation that is used for Shuttle tracking and other such things. The 3rd choice landing strip for all Shuttle missions is over the mountains at White Sands Space Harbor.

Only one shuttle mission ever landed there on 03-30-1982.
STS-3 was the 3rd shuttle mission and 3rd flown by our first flyable shuttle - Columbia (destroyed on re-entry 02-01-2003).

Shuttle Atlantis did a low altitude piggybacked fly-over for the NASA folks on 06-01-2009 on its way back to Florida.

Some intense lightning can roll over that whole area.