Sackcloth sky

[jere7my]

Last night and today, massive thunderstorms have been rolling across Ann Arbor. I saw a jagged fork of lightning span the sky directly above my head last night. Today, the sky darkened to dusk at 2:00 P.M. and began spitting hail down upon us. I just spent a few minutes hauling tree limbs out of the street; an entire dead tree was uprooted in our neighbors' yard. Here's a radar image from just after the front passed through; look closely to see a bit of purple (signifying unusual intensity) in amid the red:


(I'm at the little reticle just southwest of the center of the image.)

In unrelated news, 81 students set the world record for most naked people riding a roller coaster. I mention this because they apparently did it at Thorpe Park in Surrey.

Not much to report from the last few days: I've been working on SWAPA, I failed again to get enough people for a band at Scottish last night, I really enjoyed the Smallville and Angel finales.

Off to reset some clocks now....

Comments

[jdh92.livejournal.com]

Good grief. Unless I'm misunderstanding the basic idea, that should have had the National Weather Service screaming about tornado warnings for every place in the path of that storm.

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

There were tornado warnings for about an hour last night—they sounded the tornado siren and everything—but I didn't have the TV on this afternoon, so I don't know if there were further threats. (No siren, as far as I could hear.)

[glassonion]

Huh, is that the giant thunderstorm that woke me up at 5:45 convinced my basement apartment was going to be flooded? I don't have a good sense of how fast weather moves, or even in what direction, around here.