Weather Danger

Thursday night, we all got to watch the most interesting cloud activity roll in over us. It started out sunny, then this big, dark cluster of clouds came zipping in from the north. Here is what the edge of it looked like from our back deck:


This is roughly the same shot in portrait mode. In this shot, you can see how there are a couple layers to the clouds, with big white puffy ones on top and dark, story ones on the bottom. If you look closely beneath the clouds and the horizon, you can see how it is raining in the distance in the left half of the shot, but not in the right.


This shot was taken facing east. It was a wonderful, sunny day right before this, and it gives you a good feel for that.


More happy and sad clouds.


HannahC kept yelling "funnel cloud! funnel cloud!" every time she saw a cloud. This little do-jobber here is about as close as we came to a funnel cloud.


Shortly thereafter, another set of clouds came whipping in from the south and proceeded to form a large, rotating mass of clouds with the edge almost directly over out house. We watched it out the basement windows. The pictures don't do it justice (they just look like one big cloud, as you can't see the circular motion on a still), and they don't look great having been taken through a window in a storm.

In the end, we got a bunch of wind and about 30 seconds of rain, and the whole thing was gone in a half hour.