Early Spring weather in Seattle: a ๐งต
This morning around 10am, I pulled up the shades only to be near-blinded by the clearest, most intense ๐ in months. I may have hissed a little. ๐งโโ๏ธ
By noon, it had turned a thick, gloomy dark, as though dementors were afoot. ๐ป
This morning around 10am, I pulled up the shades only to be near-blinded by the clearest, most intense ๐ in months. I may have hissed a little. ๐งโโ๏ธ
By noon, it had turned a thick, gloomy dark, as though dementors were afoot. ๐ป
It rained a bit & then cleared up again by 3pm, when the ๐ฆฎ๐โ๐ฆบ & I started our walk through Carkeek Park.
It slowly got dark again. I was looking at a tissue in my hand when (I know it sounds weird) a camera flash came out of it. ๐ธ๐ค
I had one second to think "wtf?" when ...
It slowly got dark again. I was looking at a tissue in my hand when (I know it sounds weird) a camera flash came out of it. ๐ธ๐ค
I had one second to think "wtf?" when ...
CRACK!๐ฉ๏ธ The single loudest thunder I've ever heard in my life. Not a deep boom but a flat clap, like air compressing & sizzling. It sounded like it was 20 feet over my head. I *felt* it. The dogs & I all jumped in the air.
And that was it. One โก๏ธ, one thunder, then no more.
And that was it. One โก๏ธ, one thunder, then no more.
Then, a few minutes later ... a giant sheet of hail, so sudden & thick that for a little bit I could barely see 10 feet ahead us. It covered the ground (& the dogs) almost immediately, creating, in just a few minutes, a shimmering winter wonderland of white. โ๏ธ 
Then came several minutes of steady, soaking ๐ง๏ธ, causing streams & rivers to form, sweeping along the hail, forming temporary paintings & sketches in the street, composed of what looked like albino couscous. Then, after about 10 minutes of rain, a very Seattle phenomenon ...
... which is, the sun came out again & the temperature rapidly warmed, but it was still raining, as though a rogue cloud was tossing over its rain from some other part of the sky. There's nothing quite like sunrain -- it looks like the air is alive & shimmering. ๐ฆ๏ธ
And then, finally, it was fully ๐ again -- so warm I had to tie my coat around my waste & walk in๐. By the time I got home 20 minutes later, my soaked jeans were completely dry & there was almost no sign left of the hail, just some dusting of white grains in the shadows. </fin>
Corrections:
1. Tied around my *waist*, not waste.
2. Used "shimmering" twice. Bad form. Just cut the first one when you read it.
3. I suppose dementors cannot be "afoot."
1. Tied around my *waist*, not waste.
2. Used "shimmering" twice. Bad form. Just cut the first one when you read it.
3. I suppose dementors cannot be "afoot."
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