I was out for a walk a two evenings ago after yet another hot and steamy day. I'd done about 3 km and was on my way home concerned about some heavy storms lurking to the south and also the fact that it was beginning to get dark. So I quickened my pace and was looking around principally at the houses and gardens in my neighbourhood. Suddenly I looked up and was greeted by a glorious spectacle. The last rays of the sun were illuminating the clouds in front of me, but simultaneously light rain was falling from them creating a rainbow effect. I couldn't resist whipping out my mobile phone and taking a couple of quick shots of this event, both attached here, with the second being, in effect, an enlargement of the first.
I think you'll agree that this was some display!
Yesterday evening, at around the same time, we were hit by a truly violent storm which passed directly overhead with ample lightning and massive claps of thunder. One casualty of the intense wind was our garden umbrella, which was lifted from its stand and dumped on the ground, fortunately undamaged. The storm produced c. 25 mm of rain (1 inch) in just half an hour and put one of our TV channels, the ABC, off-air - and back on again - about twenty times, We gave up watching the who-dun-it because we missed key elements of the plot. Fortunately there was no hail unlike parts of Sydney that got trashed earlier in the day!
There's a similar forecast fro this evening, but a search of the Bureau of Meteorology's rain radars shows that the nearest rain event is nearly 500 km away and, right now, I'm seeing a lot of blue sky. The temperature at 1.30 pm as I type this post is approaching 29 C (or nearly 85F) - very pleasant.
AS
I think you'll agree that this was some display!
Yesterday evening, at around the same time, we were hit by a truly violent storm which passed directly overhead with ample lightning and massive claps of thunder. One casualty of the intense wind was our garden umbrella, which was lifted from its stand and dumped on the ground, fortunately undamaged. The storm produced c. 25 mm of rain (1 inch) in just half an hour and put one of our TV channels, the ABC, off-air - and back on again - about twenty times, We gave up watching the who-dun-it because we missed key elements of the plot. Fortunately there was no hail unlike parts of Sydney that got trashed earlier in the day!
There's a similar forecast fro this evening, but a search of the Bureau of Meteorology's rain radars shows that the nearest rain event is nearly 500 km away and, right now, I'm seeing a lot of blue sky. The temperature at 1.30 pm as I type this post is approaching 29 C (or nearly 85F) - very pleasant.
AS
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