A little over a week ago we had some severe weather here in our Blue Ridge Foothills and Lakes area.
I saw my first ever green looking cloud formation and actually watched the clouds that were moving forward back-draft to the big cloud. I likened it to a "Rip Tide in the Sky." Other parts of our county had heaps of hail, like the Bedford County side, where we had only pea sized hail in the Town of Rocky Mount.
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I took these images from my porch here in Rocky Mount VA
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| You can see the green color of the clouds at the top of this monster cloud it was -22 degrees! |
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| The lighting strikes were brilliant straight up and down, not forked, we had tornado warnings |
A half dozen or so in the BRFAL Chapter belong to CoCoRahs which is the Rain, Hail and Snow network. They report daily from their rain gauges. You can learn more about
this program here. You can view the current map of
precipitation reports here.
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