Now the afternoon’s solar heat loading was reaching its peak, and the chances had improved for a major F-4 or F-5. The squall line was headed for the Texas-Oklahoma border, moving fast and dragging the midlevel jet with it. The chase situation would be a lot different now. As the Troupe pursued they’d be leaving the abandoned lands, reaching places where the aquifers were still patchily existent, and where a lot of people still actually lived.