Wary eye to the sky

[jhetley]

Elder Son stopped by yesterday evening, requesting a ride back to his apartment after work. So I finished supper and we headed across town just as some ugly clouds moved in and started to spit rain and lightning.

Coming back, there's this place with a panorama out to the horizon, and some of those clouds were getting lumpy on the bottom. Maine doesn't go in for tornados, as a general rule, but I've lived in Michigan and Illinois and Georgia, prime twister country. Those clouds looked familiar. Wouldn't have taken much more energy to turn _really_ interesting.

Rainbow afterward, sunshine and cooler this morning.

Comments

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Actually...
while watching the radar views/storm information available on Weather Underground ( see http://www.wunderground.com ) there was a 5 or 10 minute stretch where "tornado signature" was showing up on the map.

Here, we had a lot of lightning, including some nearby ground strikes, a good bit of wind, and heavy rain. We turned off the computers and the air conditioner and watched for a half hour or 45 minutes; the temperature fell from 88 to 72 pretty darned fast... they promised chance of hail, but we didn't see any.

Really, next "bonus" I get, I'm putting in a weather station...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"there was a 5 or 10 minute stretch where "tornado signature" was showing up on the map. "

Doesn't surprise me a bit. Like I said, I've seen those clouds before. Didn't like them then, don't like them now. Not nice.

I shut down the electronics, but wouldn't say we had a "lot" of lightning. And we may have had some hail -- some of the stuff on the roof sounded a little louder than simple rain.