First Spring Storm of the Season

Tuesday April 13, 2010 ~ Starting Monday night, the wind
came up and didn't let up for the next 24 hours! It was
relentless! The wind blew from the south at 35+mph ALL
day increasing to 58mph by afternoon! It was beyond any
wind that we've had in a long time and about drove me crazy
listening to it all day!! Notice the trees leaning to the right
and all the dirt in the air!

By mid-afternoon, the skies turned gray and the clouds
moved in with the wind increasing! This view is to the
north west. Note the trees at the very bottom of the picture,
they are leaning to the right.

The sky almost have a greenish color to it.

This view is to the north. In a very short time the skies
became very ominous. We had a wind advisory in effect
all day then had severe weather warnings in the afternoon.

It turned very cold very quickly.

This view is to the north east. We did have tornado warnings

in surrounding counties.

This picture doesn't do any justice to how bad the skies looked!

Not sure if this is dirt blowing or some

thing else.... This view is to the north

east and I had my zoom lense on as

far as it would go. Then the rain began

and it POURED! And the wind completely

went away! It was so strange.

After about an hour, the rain stopped

and a beautiful double rainbow appeared

to the east. Finally, an end to a day of

horrendous winds and our first spring storm.

We ended up with .80 of rain and some

pea size hail. Luckily we didn't have any

damage from the winds but we've noticed

other places that have lots of shingle damage.