Hey Folks!
After my morning post, saw a severe cell blowing up as I drove to my 10:15 class up in Montgomery County. Was too busy creeping in construction traffic to haul the camera out of my purse to photograph, but was very pretty, and saw some nice cloud-to-cloud lightning in it. It roared through around 11 am, and I mentioned to a class mate that I hoped he'd closed his car windows, as the radar I was looking at indicated it was overhead, and out the window could see it starting to pour. He was lucky--he'd rolled them up. My daughter, who was south and east of me at school in Bowie said that it got dark and the lightning was frequent and LOUD thunder. Said that she and a couple of classmates actually crawled under their desks after one close hit--she's only 14.
Things got right lively here this afternoon around 5 pm or so (like I predicted this morning). A line of severe T-storms with hail (the sky had that creepy greenish color in it) and very frequent lightning all around the DC area, as well as an unconfirmed report of a tornado up in Baltimore.
The cloud-to-cloud lightning was spectacular to watch, as was the cloud-to-ground. No pics, though--too busy trying to drive in the rain and darkened traffic lights.
Once I got to school (University of MD--7ish--last night of class--exam), spotted these terrific mammatus clouds overhead, and the light of the setting sun really highlighted them nicely. Took LOTS of pics (non-digital camera) and hope to get them developed tomorrow. Will send a couple along once developed and scanned. They were really spectacular, and I was a little late to class because of my photo shoot. Oh well--last class anyhow.
In the area we had pea-sized to hen-sized hail, as well as some wind damage, and a house up in Olney (Montgomery County) took a direct lightning strike--fortunately not too much damage to the house--firefighters got the attic fire under control quickly. LOTS of airline delays at our 3 airports, and all up the East Coast from what they said on the news. Some power outages, too. Ours blinked once, but stayed on--had to turn the TV and cable box back on again, though--and right in the middle of the local weather forecast!!!
The McDonalds down the street was out, as was the traffic light in front of it, and the Jerry's Sub Shop to the immediate right (and the funeral home and hotel to the left), but to the Red Lobster next to Jerry's, and the Burger King to the right of the Red Lobsters were open. We stopped and got a fast food meal at BK, and they were doing a booming business because of the power outage just down the street from them (less than 100 yards). Kinda funny.
Now it's a bit breezy (Beaufort scale--20-30 mph) and MARKEDLY cooler than before the boomer moved through, and VERY MUCH cooler than this time last night. Should be a nice, more May-ish day tomorrow, with highs forecast for the upper 70's to low 80's. Better than the hellish 90's we had this week--last two days were Code Orange and today was Code Red because of the atmosphere and the ozone. Uuuuuccckkk!
Sharon L. Kimbleton
Lanham, MD (an eastern suburb of Washington, DC)
MWCR Wx Station #17572
skakim{at}mindspring.com
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kimbleton_s{at}bls.gov
http://polaris.umuc.edu/~skimblet/
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