Friday
Nov162007
About last night
Friday, November 16, 2007 at 6:48AM
There was quite the storm last night... started with a little rain... then the wind started to pick up (we always have wind on top of our hill)... then the rain got a little more aggressive.
Sounds like a normal fall rain - until the thunder started... and the rain turned into groppel... and lots of it... and snow... and more wind, with rain mixed in... ohh, and who could forget the cool purple lightening flashes...
And in the middle of this "Wrath of God" sorta storm - there I am out on the deck in my LL Bean Gore-tex rain gear working the grill for the last tenderloin off my big buck.
The tumultuous weather continued for almost a solid hour - accumulating a couple of inches of the snowy, slushy mixture on the deck.
Checking the radar (and I thought about making a copy of the image too late) - there was a lot of lake effect coming off Lake Ontario - and a huge bright red radar blob over us - from the lake. To illustrate the sort of pattern - obviously sans the huge storm - here's a radar shot from this morning.
You have to look at that and be grateful for the snow thrower on the tractor, the plow truck and the 150' of snow fence...
Sounds like a normal fall rain - until the thunder started... and the rain turned into groppel... and lots of it... and snow... and more wind, with rain mixed in... ohh, and who could forget the cool purple lightening flashes...
And in the middle of this "Wrath of God" sorta storm - there I am out on the deck in my LL Bean Gore-tex rain gear working the grill for the last tenderloin off my big buck.
The tumultuous weather continued for almost a solid hour - accumulating a couple of inches of the snowy, slushy mixture on the deck.
Checking the radar (and I thought about making a copy of the image too late) - there was a lot of lake effect coming off Lake Ontario - and a huge bright red radar blob over us - from the lake. To illustrate the sort of pattern - obviously sans the huge storm - here's a radar shot from this morning.
You have to look at that and be grateful for the snow thrower on the tractor, the plow truck and the 150' of snow fence...
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