| « Sunday, Funny Sunday ~ Low high chair | Home | National Guard Armory photo safari » |
Latest Entries
Photos ~ Commencement Bay in a Summer Storm-Given Shroud
Photos ~ Pack Forest Hike and Alder Lake
Photos ~ Frost Park Chalk Off #20
Photos ~ An Evening Sunset Ride
Tue. September 4, 2007, 09:39am PDT
Video ~ Late summer thunderstorm over Tacoma
Last night the earth and sky rumbled over Tacoma. A great thunderstorm and associated squall slammed into us. Sarah and I had fun watching it approach from our upstairs window.
The blob on the radar cruised from Olympia and directly over Tacoma. We saw lightning for a half hour or so before we heard any thunder. Looked like most of it was contained within the clouds. A downpour drenched local streets and, had it arrived five hours earlier, would've put a real damper on our Labor Day BBQ. Though I'm thankful we live in the temperate and often weather calm Pacific Northwest, I long for a few more of these storms a year.
Comments (8) | To Top
9/4/2007 @ 11:17am
Nice shot Kev! How many did you have to take to get that one? What was the exposure details that you have. Have you gotten your new 17-55 yet?
by Gavin
9/4/2007 @ 11:19am
never mind. I just saw the caption. Video capture. I too long for more storms like this. I want a shot at taking some cool photos of them.
by Gavin
9/4/2007 @ 11:49am
I love thunderstorms and was excited last night. I wish we got a few more thunderstorms in this part of the country. I'll take them over rain any day.
by Annie J
9/4/2007 @ 1:57pm
Gav: Yup, cheated by using our webcam and the video on Sarah's point-n-shoot. It would be great to get out to shoot this sort of thing with our SLRs though.
Annie: I swear we use to get more thunderstorms around the PNW. Oh well. Maybe global warming will help us out in that category. ;)
by KevinFreitas
9/4/2007 @ 11:49pm
we did that too!
by Roxanne
9/6/2007 @ 5:31am
impressive... We have 199 rain days a year in Belgium, but nothing like this...
by Liebrecht
9/6/2007 @ 10:09am
Haha -- I know the feeling Liebrecht. We're pretty wet here on the Northwest coast of the US but rarely get cool thunderstorms like this one.
by KevinFreitas
9/6/2007 @ 9:45pm
I missed it, darn it. I love thunderstorms and thought I might catch one while I was in NY. Instead it happened her and my wife told me all about it. Thanks for the video, now I know more of the feeling of it.
by Droid16