12 June 2008 Wisconsin Storms
Jun. 12th, 2008 08:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoThis is the Milwaukee weather radar at about 4:52 pm today. Southern Wisconsin has been getting blasted with heavy rain and tornadic storms every day or two for a couple of weeks now. As is typical, it all went just north of my location (the red plus mark) and nothing much happened here. Remembering my regrets over missing a spectacular sky photo op a week ago, I ran to get the camera this afternoon at about the time of this radar snap. Note all the tornado warnings and flash flood zones on the image, then click it and select the next cloud photo from the right edge of your screen. You can scroll through several interesting snaps of the thunderstorm activity as seen from my pasture, about 50 to 60 miles south of the actual storms.
I was acutely aware this afternoon of the traffic noise from the detour along our road. Normally I rely on my ears to track approaching storms, even if I'm indoors. It wasn't working today. There was thunder all right, but there were also motorcycles and trucks with bad undercarriages and bearings. It was all muddied and my usual confidence in what I am hearing and what it means was reduced to mud. I felt as if I were trying to read in the dark. Very frustrating.
I was acutely aware this afternoon of the traffic noise from the detour along our road. Normally I rely on my ears to track approaching storms, even if I'm indoors. It wasn't working today. There was thunder all right, but there were also motorcycles and trucks with bad undercarriages and bearings. It was all muddied and my usual confidence in what I am hearing and what it means was reduced to mud. I felt as if I were trying to read in the dark. Very frustrating.
