Wednesday, July 18, 2007

"Of Storms and Rain..."

(Cloud Peak, Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming)

"Climb the mountains,
and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you
as the sunshine into the trees.
The winds blow their freshness
into you,
and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop off
like autumn leaves."


- John Muir

Good ol' John Muir...I have been trying to get some woodworking done this afternoon, ultimately realizing this just isn't 'one of those good days' to get stuff done...and have been glancing at Triad radar scans and watching storms bubble, bubble, toil and trouble...even if fires don't burn and cauldrons don't bubble (apologies to Willie Shakespeare...).

(remember you can click pics to enlarge)

It started out rather typically, with storms first forming in the mountains and moving east into the Foothills....

...with some nice cells developing in the NW Triad area, and the first warning (Surry County)...hail markers on any of these images mostly fell in the 0.25" to 0.50" range, FYI...

As they spread eastward, they got pretty feisty up towards the VA border...

Just north of Greensboro proper was some very heavy rainfall rates around 3:40pm...

And this nice linear feature surely packed some strong winds, as well, around 5:34pm...

And such was my afternoon of cyber storm-chasing. What reports come in to the National Weather Service will take a while, so off to slumberland I went, leaving the storm dregs to do their thing and wind down after sunset.

Joy of joys, we get to do it all again today...!

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