BS: Bizarre Weather

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 07:36 PM

The human mind worls on a series of 'filters'. Set one up to look for 'bizarre weather' or 'yellow Fiat 128s', or 'folk musos', etc, and suddenly you see such things everywhere.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Bat Goddess
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 02:40 PM

Seems to be happening more and more lately -- driving down a road (usually on the way home from work) and have mist, hail, pelting rain...and bright sun through at least some of it. Super dark clouds and lightning, too, within a few miles.

Really makes the old saw about "Don't like the weather, wait a minute" more accurate than just funny.

Several times within the past week or so it's been raining so hard I've been tempted to pull over because there's no visibility -- but terrified that if I do so, someone will run into me!

Right now it's just really humid -- I think I'm mildewing.

Linn

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Ebbie
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 12:33 PM

In northern Virginia and in southern Michigan I have seen rain come 'marching' across a field with everything bone dry in front of it. Perhaps rain that is so 'compressed' is in a fairly turbulent area, weather-wise? It certainly is true in both Virginia and Michigan.

In Juneau, Alaska, we rarely have electric storms; they say that our ratio of hot versus cold air is too narrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 11:20 AM

My property is 70 feet long. I've seen it rain on one end of the place and not at the other. Perhaps, if the rain is weakening, the differences between one part of a place and another (vegetation versus house, for exmple)lead to an abrupt cessation of rainfall.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 05:30 PM

Walking across the car park of the supermarket last week, we could feel a definate difference between walking on the left side of the pathway to walking on the right side of the pathway. The right side was several degrees warmer and considerably stickier than the left... I've been through the leading edge of rain before, but never anything so dramatic and dry as that carpark!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Sorcha
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 05:22 PM

Friday evening we got 1 1/2" of rain in less than an hour. At sons house a mile or so away, they got none.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 11:29 AM

The thunder we have have had here has shaken the house to its foundation and rattels pipes.

This profound pressure wave is very unusual.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Rumncoke
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 11:24 AM

I can remember walking down the High street, Fulford, York, in Yorkshire, England, and on the other side of the white line - the centre of the road, it was raining, and on the side where I was it was perfectly dry.

Theoretically there has to be a place where the rain is, and next to it a place where it is not - but it was rather weird to see it drawn so clearly on the ground.

I supose the edge was parallel to the direction of travel of the clouds producing the rain.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 01:17 AM

I remember a few years ago, there was a huge gathering in Sydney at the Archibald Fountain in Hyde Park to protest against mining at Jabiluka. We were worried about the weather, and could see clouds gathering. As we were early and the event hadn't yet started, my friends and I went for a wander round the park.

As we walked down one of the paths away from the fountain, it started to rain. We looked back at the large crowd around the fountain, and there was a circle of sunlight just over that area. When we went back, it was still dry and sunny. It never rained on that protest meeting, while all around seemed to have got some rain. Just after it finished, the heavens opened.

My friend Gina wasn't at all surprised. She had conducted a number of drumming circles and meetings and said the rain always stayed away till they were finished. She said "It never rains on ceremony."

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: katlaughing
Date: 29 Jul 07 - 12:28 AM

I've been in rain coming down hard enough to have the wiper blades on while the sun is shining brightly through the clouds. The valley we live in is large, about 30-35 miles long and 5 wide, though it is much wider in spots if you count the small palisades above the Colorado and Gunnison rivers, and catches interesting weather patterns. Surrounded by mesas and other plateaus up to 10,000 feet and more, you can see several different kinds of weather in most directions, esp. in the winter or during what they call "monsoon season" which it is for the high desert. Most places that have real monsoons would laugh though.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 10:41 PM

Cool!

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Adrianel
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 10:26 PM

I once went out to bring in the washing off the line because it was looking a bit black over Will's mother's, and watched the rain line pass 5 meters from the house, and 2 meters from the washing line.

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 06:20 PM

I've often had rain only on one side of the house here. Wind is a different story tho!

Subject: RE: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: gnu
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 05:55 PM

Bizarre.

Subject: BS: Bizarre Weather
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Jul 07 - 05:37 PM

OK, it starts getting dark like a real storm is coming in, then it starts just plain raining.
Come downstairs - it isn't raining on that side of the house.
Have you ever had that, different weather from different windows?

And what in the ever-loving blue-eyed world is the sci-fi book where at some point, the protagonist looks out a window or a door and the weather keeping him indoors isn't there, so he bolts, and later somebody is blamed for forgetting to extend the faked storm to the other side of the house?

Then, with no warning nearby lightning, something hits RIGHT HERE - I guess *somebody* has to be under the first lightning bold of a thunderstorm but it's never been me before!