Thunderstorm

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We had a pretty amazing thunderstorm last night. It was constant lightning for at least a half hour with about 50 mph winds, and driving rain. As the winds were coming from the opposite side of the house our sliding glass doors are on I was standing at the open sliding doors watching the show and a lightning strike hit so close that I could literally feel the shock wave of the thunder at what seemed like milliseconds before I even saw the flash.

Scared me so bad I jumped about a foot in the air.

Looks like we have a daylight storm coming through today as the thunder has been rumbling for about a 1/2 an hour again and the rain is just now starting to fall. It will be interesting to see if this storm gets as intense as the one last night.

 

actually, i would sooo welcome even a mild storm by now. it's been a sauna for far too long now. i can't stand this anymore. even taking a shower isn't refreshing anymore, because the exertion of drying off is making you sweat already. where i live in holland there's only been a 10 minute freak rain storm, but the rain evaporated quickly after that.

just out of curiousity, freddy, but what region in the us of a do you live?

 

Even with backups, I'm not sure if it's a good idea having the computers on? Unless they are surge protected?

Still it must be nice to put some of that studying into practice eh?


UCM

 

I'm in the Pacific Northwest, d-Faktor. We don't normally have a lot of thunderstorms here as the humidity is normally pretty low out here in Eastern Washington, but the temps have been around 100 degrees F. for the last week or so and the humidty has been up higher than normal for the temps we have had. When those conditions occur we do get some pretty good storms, and this is one of those times.

It's been a wild year for weather here as we've had a couple of storms that produced funnel clouds that touched down this year, Normally they are about as rare as hens teeth out here. We've also had some rain storms that dropped about 2" an hour of rain. Seeing that normal rainfall here is about 12-14 inches of rain a year storms like that are very unusual.

 

i think ucheekymonkey experienced a snow storm:

 

I like it!

good one mate

 

monkey - wtf happened to your avatar? looks like the poor thing is shi77ing itself!

 

No that's shock!

I always look like that on pay day when I open my pay packet and see just how little I get!

 

We had the same storm in my neck of the woods. Knocked out the power for hours, dumped a ton of water on us and the lightning and thunder hung around forever. Usually summer thunderstorns come, shake things up for a few minutes, and leave. This one stayed, knocked down trees and power poles, destroyed a 3 million dollar plus home when it was hit by lightning and consumed by fire and generally terrorized everything from the Oregon border to almost the middle of southern Idaho.

 

Ummm.... Sorry it burned down your new house, Trip....

Sounds like we we were fortunate to just get the northern edge of the storm.