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Feb. 24th, 2004 01:58 pmI just had a strange experience with meteorology.
It has been foggy all morning, which is odd considering the wind we've been having in advance of a thunderstorm. I had to run into St Pete during lunch, which was sunny and blue skied, then headed back to the beach. From the drawbridge in, the fog was all over the islands and soon, I was surrounded by it again.
Then the thunderstorm blew in. Do you know those low, ripply, dark clouds that hang about 1500 feet above the ground before a thunderstorm? Hang on, let me find a suitable picture on the internet...ah, Google is great. Here is a picture.
It got dark very quickly, and the wind picked up, and a little bit of spitting drizzle started and peeled the fog away like a blanket on a warm morning. Straight up was cloud formations like that picture. But the fog was only peeled back in my local area. To my left was a towering, 1500 foot wall of fog that also looked just like that picture. So, imagine 200-300 yards/meters away a completely looming, vertical wall of cloud like that picture, up to 1500 feet/500 meters. Then, overhead, the same type of cloud, so it was like being surrounded in this dark, wet, huge, cottony bubble. It was completely surreal and wonderful.
Then the thunderstorm started and everything went back to normal.
It has been foggy all morning, which is odd considering the wind we've been having in advance of a thunderstorm. I had to run into St Pete during lunch, which was sunny and blue skied, then headed back to the beach. From the drawbridge in, the fog was all over the islands and soon, I was surrounded by it again.
Then the thunderstorm blew in. Do you know those low, ripply, dark clouds that hang about 1500 feet above the ground before a thunderstorm? Hang on, let me find a suitable picture on the internet...ah, Google is great. Here is a picture.
It got dark very quickly, and the wind picked up, and a little bit of spitting drizzle started and peeled the fog away like a blanket on a warm morning. Straight up was cloud formations like that picture. But the fog was only peeled back in my local area. To my left was a towering, 1500 foot wall of fog that also looked just like that picture. So, imagine 200-300 yards/meters away a completely looming, vertical wall of cloud like that picture, up to 1500 feet/500 meters. Then, overhead, the same type of cloud, so it was like being surrounded in this dark, wet, huge, cottony bubble. It was completely surreal and wonderful.
Then the thunderstorm started and everything went back to normal.
