Boom!

Awoke this morning to perhaps one of the loudest thunderstorms I’d ever heard in my life.

My first thought was for the computers, but as I listened, I realized I needn’t worry much.  I live perhaps 10 miles south of the shoreline of Lake Ontario, and this storm appeared to me to be up along the shore. 10 miles away and still loud enough to roust Rumpelstiltskin from his slumber? Can you imagine how loud it musta been UNDER that thing? I’m sure I’ll hear from my Mom, later today… she lives up that way.

The usual weather track around here is usually almost due west, so when I checked the radar, it was a little unusual to see this storm moving to the southeast at around 20mph.  There was a huge low positioned over Southern Ontario all day yesterday.  Usually when you see huge dark clouds gathering to the immediate west, you’re in for a storm, in short order.

In this case, the low was so well defined you could see the spinners coming off of it, like a slow motion hurricane. And I mean slow.  Took literally hours to move from Hamilton to Niagara Falls and then more to get to us. I postponed a lot of stuff I wanted to do because it looked like rain all day.. big nasty clouds to my west all day. Got nothing done as a result. Oh, well. I’m rested. Or would be if the storm hadn’t woken me at around 4:30 this morning.

So, now that the center of that low has passed us, the spinners are coming off in the opposite direction. Happens around here all the time just not so well defined, though.  Bigtime nasty. Didn’t rain much here, but lots of strikes, hail and rain just to the north of 104 from here. Woke up the dog and the cats, too.

Once I got awake enough to make sense out of the radar, I noticed that where we were camping a couple weeks ago must be dealing with flash floods… really heavy rain either side of I81 north of Syracuse for at 30 miles in any direction, centered on Sandy Creek.

Gonna be a wild weather day around here. Just as well I’m working.