Toe in the Water

More Weather

More Weather

Talking of the rain (well, I was, a couple of days ago), yesterday we had one of those sudden storms that appear out of nowhere, scare the heck out of you and then are gone, all in the space of a few minutes.

This one commenced with a surge in wind speed that rattled the screen door. That was followed, almost immediately, by a loud boom of thunder overhead. No distant rumblings to give warning and send the cat scurrying for cover under the bed - just this sudden boom that made us all jump. And the cat gave the best impression of a scalded cat I’ve ever seen.

A few more lesser thunder rolls and it was all over. The wind dropped, the rain (which had been quite ferocious for a minute or two) ceased, and everything returned to the way it had been before the storm. The strange thing was that we noticed no lightning flashes during this unexpected display. I can only presume that they had happened above the clouds, perhaps an exchange of energy between various thunderheads, and the flash was muted by the overcast.

All quite exciting, although fairly harmless, it would seem. Weather is interesting at times, just as I was trying to say the other day.

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