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post #1 of 11
11/28/10 at 6:14pm
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Well its Monday in my part of the world sooooo

We have had some strange weather over night

So what is the weirdest weather you have watched

For me it was a few hours ago it was snowing and at the same time there was thunder and lightening, very loud cracks of thunder and bright flashes of lightening
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post #2 of 11
11/28/10 at 6:22pm
Probably the ice storm that was here in 1998.
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post #3 of 11
11/28/10 at 6:35pm
Last year when it rained for a few days straight and lots of neighborhoods in Atlanta got flooded, and it wasn't even hurricaine season.
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post #4 of 11
11/28/10 at 7:25pm
Well, we usually get one or two bad bouts of deadly tornadoes a year - last year it was the May 10th and 13th tornadoes. Several years ago it was the May 3rd tornadoes, which resulted in several shows being made about it.
...That rather normal weather for here though. As is sudden large hail, high winds, heavy rain, and 6+ month droughts.

Seeing snow in March the last few years has been odd, though. So was last year's cold spring.
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post #5 of 11
11/28/10 at 7:47pm
I guess I would have to say either snow at the end of June (1967) or a killing frost in mid-August 2007) as well this year's 4 month long monsoon season. Maybe monsoons win because we had more rain this summer than the annual rainfall for this area - 18" is average, and we almost doubled that. As to thunder and lightning during snow storms, no biggie as it happens here sometimes.
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post #6 of 11
11/28/10 at 8:09pm
I would have to say going from mid-70's to high-20's in 12 hours.
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post #7 of 11
11/28/10 at 9:36pm
Being in Sydney in bright, hot sunshine and having it change to a horrible hail storm which was absolutely exhilarating but terrifying at the same time! that was in 2004.
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post #8 of 11
11/28/10 at 11:25pm
I've been in tornadoes, hurricanes, and hail in Texas. (The hail was orange-sized disks with a grapefruit-sized one thrown in here and there. It was early on a Sunday morning and I dreamt there were men with sledgehammers on the roof before I woke up and realized what was happening. The men who fixed the roof said it looked like people used sledgehammers on the roof.)

I remember the 1981 Memorial Day Flood in Austin where there was such a downpour that the city was flooding in only an hour and a half. The skies truly opened up, Texas has lots of downpours but this was something else. That's where Whole Foods started and became known as Whole Floods. Another time in the 80s there it rain for something like 3 weeks, a hard downpour, it was crazy. (My beloved kitty Diana washed up at my doorstep in that flood, a tiny kitten covered in mud. She lived a long happy life with me.)

Here the Pacific storms are pretty outrageous! Horizontal rain with the high winds howling, sometimes I think the windows are going to break the rain is hitting them so hard.

I love and am awed by tornadoes. Next lifetime I want to be a storm chaser.
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post #9 of 11
11/29/10 at 1:50am
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I find weather so fascinating

We only really get normal weathers sun rain wind snow nothing to major but this year is the first year in 17 years to have snow so early and I've never seen thunder nd lightening when snowing before

I've known there to be freak tornados but I've never seen it in my part of the UK
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post #10 of 11
11/29/10 at 4:17am
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Originally Posted by Trouts mom View Post
Probably the ice storm that was here in 1998.
I would have to say the same thing! It was pretty horrible.

We always had pretty weird weather when I lived in Calgary as well. It could seriously change at the drop of a hat.
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post #11 of 11
11/29/10 at 5:17am
My son and I have a "thing" for wild thunderstorms and we used to sit up half the night watching the lightning flash through the sky. One night, he and I sat in the living room, watching cloud-to-ground lightning. Fascinating to see the lightning and listen to the thunder roll. Until the lightning hit a mature silver maple tree in the side yard and an electric transformer.
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