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midwest weather
Jun. 3rd, 2009 09:08 amApparently we're all about having hail storms over here. On Saturday when I was returning home from having dinner at my aunt and uncle's house (and being mauled by my 5 cousins) I was greeted with the nasty falling ice. The rain got pretty bad, so decided to pull off the road and parked on the side of a school to try and minimize the possible damage to my car.
There were actually tornado warning that night. It's wierd to say this, but I am fascinated by the sky during tornado watches. It gets really creepy. Sometimes the sky turns green or yellow. I love it.
This time there was some bizarre cloud action going on (no funnel clouds, thank goodness). There was one completely black, oppressive cloud over the entire northern half of the city (think The Nothing from Neverending Story). It cut a dramatic line across the horizon where it ended and sunlight began again. Beyond the dramatic cutout the skies looked like something out of Fantasia. It was bright, with fluffy blue clouds and light pink highlights. I tried to take a picture of it with my phone but it failed miserably.
My drive home was in the no man's land between hell and heaven. It had that tornado-esqu aura of stillness. It felt like night because of all the clouds, but the light that did shine through acted like a spotlight on everything in it's path. I'm not doing a very good job of discovering it, but weather like this has a habit of making things look not-real. It felt like I was in a painting with a single source of light. LOVE IT.
Anyway, there was another hail storm as I was trying to leave work. So, I waited in the office with some of my coworkers and played darts (I, of course, failed miserably). Finally, the tsunami passed and I went home. My lawn was covered in hail, so I took some pictures.
( Have a look at my crappy photography! )
In other news, I started Painter of the Wind yesterday and LOVE IT.
There were actually tornado warning that night. It's wierd to say this, but I am fascinated by the sky during tornado watches. It gets really creepy. Sometimes the sky turns green or yellow. I love it.
This time there was some bizarre cloud action going on (no funnel clouds, thank goodness). There was one completely black, oppressive cloud over the entire northern half of the city (think The Nothing from Neverending Story). It cut a dramatic line across the horizon where it ended and sunlight began again. Beyond the dramatic cutout the skies looked like something out of Fantasia. It was bright, with fluffy blue clouds and light pink highlights. I tried to take a picture of it with my phone but it failed miserably.
My drive home was in the no man's land between hell and heaven. It had that tornado-esqu aura of stillness. It felt like night because of all the clouds, but the light that did shine through acted like a spotlight on everything in it's path. I'm not doing a very good job of discovering it, but weather like this has a habit of making things look not-real. It felt like I was in a painting with a single source of light. LOVE IT.
Anyway, there was another hail storm as I was trying to leave work. So, I waited in the office with some of my coworkers and played darts (I, of course, failed miserably). Finally, the tsunami passed and I went home. My lawn was covered in hail, so I took some pictures.
( Have a look at my crappy photography! )
In other news, I started Painter of the Wind yesterday and LOVE IT.
