And today's weather

[wraithfodder]

Nasty thunderstorms were predicted for today, but around 7:00pm, things didn't look so bad. 



And then after we got out of the store....

It got a bit dark...


And darker! Well, not THIS dark, as the camera just said, oh, light clouds, less time on the shot, but it looked cool. The two little lights below are a car headed our way, but the clouds were dark!


However, after one or two big bangs of thunder, some rain (but nothing torrential), the sky lightened. The flash made it come out orange, although it wasn't that deep shade, but again, cool effect shot through some bushes.

Comments

[strange-magic.livejournal.com]

I love the really dark picture.
I always love the way it feels and looks when weather changes fast like that, especially thunderstorms.

[abracah.livejournal.com]

That sounds like our morning here in PA. Hubby went out to check weather and yelled that we should probably shut the windows "right now" because a severe storm was coming in "like, minutes". I looked outside and it was just a bit cloudy. Within 5 minutes it was pitch black and pouring rain, loud, long thunder and some pretty flashy lightening. It lasted about 1/2 hour and we got an inch of rain. It was so dark, the dogs thought it was night time and wanted to go to bed.

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love that last one!

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

That last picture is some awesome photography there, very cool.

[never-at-home.livejournal.com]

That color of sky reminds me of my time growing up in Mississippi. The sky always turned some strange colors before/after severe thunderstorms.

I've always love thunderstorms, even though sometimes they brought destruction. There's something about the power of it and the fact that we have absolutely no control over it that always awes me.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Amazing photos. Storms are so beautiful. Not nice to be out in, but still beautiful.

[justhere1971.livejournal.com]

Love those. You aren't in New England are you? I ask because while talking to the in-laws, at 7:00 PM they could see the clouds just like that over the lake.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Beautiful photos!

Right now we're in a drought (still or again), and I would love to have a storm like that.

[pavaneofstars.livejournal.com]

Lovely weather report!

[narellefromaus.livejournal.com]

Love looking at storm shots. We have so many sitting on the hard drive. Thinking of photo-bucketing them...
Miss the Summer storms during our Melbourne Winter. Brrrrrr. Will have to live vicariously through those on the other side of the planet. Thanks :)

[valanunthe.livejournal.com]

Yaknow, it is times like these that I personally go kinda paranoid when a big storm is coming, moreso at night when nobody can actually see the thunderheads themselves untill the rain comes down like a river, then it is just light rian when the area tornado sirens go off...... then the next day is bright and sunny and there is no damage (save for some water on the roads) and guess what they do for the day? they test the tornado sirens. it has gotton to once a month and nobody pays much attention to the things anymore unless they actually see the tornado.

Beautiful pictures! which I could take a picture of something like that, but no camera