Wyoming Weather

We had a tornado watch out this last week.  It was the same night that we went to the Ft. Caspar program.  It must have gotten pretty wild outside as we could hear the wind roaring outside the doors that seemed to want to pop open at any time.

Though I might be terrified of violent thunderstorms, I am still in awe of them and just had to get out of the car to take these pictures while the rain started falling.

This is looking in the direction of our home.

This is looking out towards the interstate.

It got so dark you couldn't see the mountains, but here was a rainbow that just appeared out of nowhere.

Our "Squashed" Veggies

This is what the hail and 90 mph winds did to our zuchinni and yellow squash plants last night during the thunderstorm. Even the poor veggies look like they have zits! Then coming home today, I saw where 5 inches of reported snow fell on Casper Mountain from the storm. What happened to fall around here, y'all?

Come Hail Or High Water

We've now lived here in Wyoming for over nine months. During that time, I've experienced less than one dozen thunderstorms. When there have been storms associated with lightning, it is absolutely incredible with blazing, sharp flashes of light that make my hairs stand up - most likely from fear!

Tonight our tv programming was interrupted for a special weather bulletin as the sirens were going off in the city. We were being warned about a severe thunderstorm and what time it should reach us and to be prepared. I put down all the windows since the wind began to increase and then, right on cue, the storm began. It sounded as though hard popcorn was hitting the windows and when I looked outside this is what I found falling... pea-sized hail. There was so much of it, it looked like snow (and we're supposed to get some of that some time tonight). Even the street and my car were covered in hail. Some people got quarter-sized hail, so we feel very lucky!
Joe is holding some of the hail I scooped up by our front door (the yellow stuff are tiny leaves which got blown off one of our trees).

The temperature tonight is supposed to get down to 34 degrees tonight and 27 degrees tomorrow night. Yep, we ain't in Georgia anymore with weather like this in September!