Yesterday, June 17
A rather eventful day, weather-wise. It got a bit too exciting.
The morning started off with heavy overcast skies, eventually turning to mostly cloudy as Noon approached.
Got the severe thunderstorm warning on my phone, went outside the VRRV to see the sky not looking good:
The 4G signal wasn't working so I fired up Starlink to check the weather radar, not great. You can see the northern edge of the storm passing to the south of the blue dot. (That's me)
We had a few minutes of light pea-sized hail, no big deal.
Things got serious after I had lunch.
At around 12:35, the tornado warning was broadcast and with it soon came very loud banging noises on the roof of the VRRV!
This shot shows the thunderstorm passing through my position. (Blue dot).
This hail lasted perhaps 2-3 minutes and was quite scary. I wondered how the CR-V and VRRV would come out of it. Full of dents?
After the hail and rain stopped, I went outside to check the CR-V and the exterior of the VRRV. Fortunately, no damage to the vehicles or the solar panels.
This is the largest hail I've ever witnessed:
No tornado near me, apparently there was one sighted further to the NE. The skies slowly cleared towards evening, but things remained quite cool at 50° F at sunset.
Ah, camping above 9000 feet in Colorado, it can get exciting this time of year.
2 comments:
Tornado warnings, hail, and strong winds. That’s what we’ve had around here since late March. Fortunately, only some hail smaller than what you experienced but lots of water and flash flooding.
We too have had similar weather for a while, RichardM, it just seems more severe when camping.
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