Look what the thunderstorms left!

[wraithfodder]

We had some hefty thunderstorms roll through today. In fact, they came just in time for rush hour. Nice. NOT. Luckily I got home before the skies opened up, but wasn't in the house more than ten minutes before the storms really hit and poof, off went the power, again. Sigh.

Anyway, an or so later, some really cool clouds appeared in the sky. Mammatus clouds, which I've never seen in this area before, ever. Anyway, here are some photos. But first, the storm clouds...











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Comments

[euphoricagony.livejournal.com]

Oooo! Nifty! They almost look like watercolour paintings.

We had a small tornado west of Toronto yesterday. Don't you just love how these weather things are happening in places they're not supposed to? /o\

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Puuurdy :D

Because of where we live, clouds like that make me nervous. They usually mean a tornado is likely to drop down :S

[spike21.livejournal.com]

Pretty!

[sky3428.livejournal.com]

...and you know how "mammatus" clouds look like??? cool! Very nice pretty pics! Hope they are/were not a sign of something worse to come.

[wildcat88.livejournal.com]

Great pics!

[arlessiar.livejournal.com]

Woah, impressive! And scary at the same time! I've never seen such clouds for real, only on pics, but I wish I could see them one day, because I'm incredibly fond of so fantastic looking weather phenomenons. Some of them are dangerous, but for some time now I'm fascinated by them and try to learn a bit more about the weather (if only meteorology wasn't so difficult...).

Aren't those Mammatus clouds connected with tornados? I hope nothing bad happened where you live!
Lately, we also had quite a few tornados here in Germany. When I grew up, people said that tornados don't exist in Germany, but that's wrong. They are indeed rare, but they can happen. We have more of them these days, but I don't know if that is because the climate's changing, or if it just seems as if there are more just because they're better documented today because nearly everyone carries a camera around nowadays and can immediately start filming when something happens. The tornados here are of course much smaller than in the USA and dissolve much sooner, that's due to the climatic conditions and geological structures in Europe. But they're still impressive for us here. Personally, I still haven't seen a tornado yet, but I'd like to - from afar. :)

[jessica7070.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!! They would win picture of the day hands down.

[lady-horton.livejournal.com]

Some pretty pics. Yeah we have had those storms here recently. Not too nice. We had a storm come through the second weekend in May that was really bad. No tornado but our house was shaking. I was at work and hubby home with kids. I have seen some nasty weather while at work but that day was kind of freaked out. 100 mile hour winds and story. We could not see the gas tanks outside at work was that bad.

[reedfem.livejournal.com]

Cool. We had a huge thunderstorm too, very electrical. Quarter size hail here, baseball size nearby. It was after dark though, so we couldn't eyeball the clouds.

[pavaneofstars.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous clouds! Thanks for sharing! :D

[aelfgyfu_mead]

Great pictures! We've had a lot of storms here lately too, but nothing that photogenic (or at least I couldn't take photos like that).

[jedi40.livejournal.com]

We got hammered in our part of the State last night as well...did not get any clouds like that were we are ..though we did have a twister warning and lots of rain and thunderstorms. Up in Northern CT were hit the hardest. More storms on the way for tonight and tomorrow..oh joy.