What's The Oddest Weather You HAve Ever Seen?

Question

Well for two days in early MArch, we had temps reaching 81 and 60 degree dewpoints in Detroit. The last day of if ended with Severe Thunderstorms producing Flooding and Damaging Hail in Spots. The very next day, we went from the low 80s to the Upper 20s with Lake Effect Snow.

Then another scenario, one day, we had 70 degree temps in late MArch/early April so we saw some evening Instability Rain Showers that produced some pretty heavy rain witha 60 degree dewpoint. About 5 hours later, it was like a blizzard outside with snow falling like crazy. The next morning we woke up to an inch of it.

Answer 1

Many years ago, at a place called Fraserburgh in North East Scotland (Grampian Region). Whilst making a short phone call, I was asked about the weather. In less than 10 minutes it had been sunny, then cloudy, rain, hail, thunder, snow and sunny again. The wind had gone from a slight breeze to moderate, then storm force and died off fast to a light breeze again. The temperature had gone from hot to mild, to freezing and back to hot again. From what I now know, this is not an uncommon occurance in the North East of Scotland. Sudden changes in weather conditions, especially on the coast are quite common.

Answer 2

Well, I was sitting outside last year at my home in Arkansas and noticed a wall cloud rolling in from the Southwest, and much like the aforementioned Starbucks story, I could see the rain falling in my neighbor's yard 10ft from my chair, but the rain persisted for around 13 minutes without ever dropping one droplet on the driveway I was sitting on. Off to my East not a drop ever fell, it was the first time I have ever witnessed such a defined "dry-line". My neighbor later told me, he received nearly a half inch of rain during that time, which happened to be in the middle of a severe two year drought!

Answer 3

The snowstorm of Nov 11, 1987 in the Washington, DC area. We lived about 50 miles north of DC, and had about an inch, which melted by afternoon. The closer you went to DC, the more snow there was, and one particulary congested area received close to 20 inches of snow in less than 12 hours, which made highway travel a disaster. It also led to a revision of procedures for clearing highways, since there were two states involved in the operation, and the old system was to clear to the borderline and turn around.

Answer 4

The "October Surprise" of New York in 2006. My family lost power for 3 1/2 days! Talk about nothing to do. The night of the actual storm, you could look out the window and see branches falling on telephone poles and a blue light come from of them. the sound of the branch breaking off was deafening. The next morning when you walked outside power lines were down everywhere you looked.
My brother and I got a week off of school because of it.

Answer 5

A freak dust devil in the north end of Hartford Connecticut (USA) in the middle of a yellow sand demolition lot site. It popped up out of nowhere on a cloudless hot summer day back in the 1990's in the middle of a very bright workday. People were standing at the bus stop, walking by, and I was in a car as a passenger at a stop sign. It was so powerful it made a lot of wind noise, kicked up a lot of yellow dust, made a huge twister like finger up into the sky and looked like a bona-fide yellow tornado!

Hartford proper has NEVER had a tornado - ever! Yes we had a huge F-4 at our airport at Windsor Locks back in the 1980's and we had the very first fully documented American tornado ever in southern Wethersfield CT (aka Rocky Hill CT) in the late 1700's. We have routine benevolent waterspouts in LI Sound. We have frequent REAL, dangerous, and deadly tornadoes throughout the rest of the state even as late as this year. But HARTFORD itself has NEVER had one. So this was very freaky.

This dust devil was so powerful it shook that stop sign so violently it reminded me of the same scene from the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The one where the UFO was making the railroad stop sign go back and forth violently. It ended as quickly as it started.

However, I do know that dust devils are caused by unusually hot rising air from the ground and NOT a true tornado which are spawned by meso-cyclonic activity inside a thunderhead cloud.

Answer 6

I would have to say that this year was the craziest. I live in central texas and it very rarely snows more than about an inch in a single year. This year it snowed 6 inches on Easter. I had Bluebonnets in my yard, covered in snow. The elders of the town said that they hadn't ever seen this much snow on or around Easter.

Answer 7

TEXAS - It's snowed like 6 times this year and it's been raining every day all summer. I'm about to get real DEPRESSED. OK, and the thunder, it literally sounds louder than a bomb. It's the loudest I've ever heard in my life... Sounds like God's wrath.

Answer 8

LOL, I have seen some crazy weather just as you described. This past winter did not feel like winter for me because the temps was like springtime. We had a little snow, but not enough to touch. I sure do miss when the seasons was normal, winter was really winter years ago...........

Answer 9

the eye wall of Hurricane Marilyn ripping my house apart Set 11 1998 in St Thomas VI at 11:45 at night.

Odd, indeed.

Answer 10

Just last week, my friend and I were in a Starbucks outlet. It's a corner store and on our left, it was raining heavily, and on the other side, we could see that there was no rain!