Lindy! I KNOW. That was the single loudest weather event I have EVER heard in Seattle. It set off car alarms, followed a few minutes later by police sirens and fire engines. Um? Is this the beginning of an action movie?

And is the National Weather Service forecast actually predicting snow on and off through next week? Where are we living?

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32 replies on “The Insane Things Happening in the Sky”

  3. didn’t hear it up in view ridge. but i heard the rumble after. must’ve woke me up.

    BTW we’re living near the canadian border. warm, moist air from the pacific is colliding with cold air from the yukon dropping out of the fraser river valley. it’s winter.

  10. me at 5:30 a.m.

    WTF? WTF!???!?!!
    (flight reflex kicks in)
    Earthquake? Run to the door frame! Wait! No shaking!
    Jet plane landing on my house? OH MY GOD WE’RE GOING TO DIE!!!
    JESUS WHAT IS THAT?!!!
    (noise ends)… quiet… we’re not going do die…
    (lightning) fuck! nuclear blast!!! WE’RE GOING TO DIE!!!
    (no wave of radiation, house doesn’t blow apart)
    wtf?!
    (more thunder)
    me to bf: seriously if this is the apocalypse i am freaked.

  14. Yeah seriously, WTF thunder. Though if this week has taught us anything, it’s that the Nation Weather Service doesn’t know what the fuck is going on. Where was the storm yesterday? And LIGHTNING STORMS this morning? Two weeks of ice on the roads? What happened to the Pacific Northwest I know, the one where a two wheeled motor vehicle is not gonna kill you on 363-364 days of the year? I haven’t skated on a lake since I moved away from Ontario and over the past week I’ve done it twice! Which was awesome. But we are certainly all going to die in a tidal wave, I’m thinking maybe tomorrow, or the day after.

  16. “It’s not going to snow. I’m telling you people, it’s not going to snow!” –Jen Graves, all day yesterday. Move over, Steve Poole. There’s a new crack weather prognosticator on the block!

  17. Transplanted Midwesterners and Northeasterners telling Seattle-ites to “calm the fuck down” when it snows are annually the most annoying folks in our fair city.

  18. I grew up in DC and Denver and have a good concept of snow, but my Seattleite boss decided to close the office for the day. So I’m not about to tell him to calm down about it…

  20. @Froggy – a tidal wave would be the way to go, but it would not be so much a wave as maybe the sea level rising for a bit(which would still suck) because the San Juans and Olympic Peninsula would take the brunt if such an event were to occur.

    I’m still stoked about thundersnow. It sounds like a northern slavic glam metal band from the late 80’s.

    Anyone remember the electrical storm this summer? Or even the weird snow day back in April? Odd weather all around.

  21. I thought it was totally boring. A non-event. I was so bored that I put down my Pabst Blue Ribbon, you know, PBR, that I have for breakfast every morning with that box of Smurfberry Crunch that I saved from the 80s. It was a sugary commercial cereal, but I eat in in a strictly ironic fashion, because I reject all that commercial crap, and anyway it’s just so boring. Anyway I was eating my Smurfberry Crunch and drinking my first PBR of the day to get me set up and also to relieve my coke jitters from doing to many toots last night in the bathroom at the Cha Cha, and I was thinking god, that thunder was so boring, I’m going to get on the Slog and see if anyone else thought it was so boring, and make comments about how boring it was.

  27. that broadcast is pretty cool — but it does not do it justice. i was thinking bomb or earthquake as well, when it woke me up. (actually, i did think apocalypse for a moment, too.) it was followed by car alarms aplenty. (15th and thomas area.)

    THUNDERSNOW!!!!

  28. Woke last night to the sound of thunder,
    How far of I sat and wondered.
    Started humming a song from 1962,
    Ain’t it funny how the night moves,
    When you just don’t seem to have as much to lose.
    Strange how the night moves.

  29. @14:

    Are you fucking kidding me? NOAA/NWS totally got this one right, including the likelihood of NO SNOW in Seattle metro yesterday, and the likelihood of YES SNOW today. And if you’d bothered to READ the link @7, you’d see thunder snow, while rare, wouldn’t be unexpected given these conditions.

    Now, STFU already and go outside.

  30. Between the thunder and my dreams of being in a real life zombie video game (and not being able to reach the shovel while the undead closed in,) I was up most of the night. But that is ok, because I got to sleep in. It was still quite loud in Greenlake.

    The greatest step forward in video games will be the day when your character can jump over the 3 foot high fence to reach the goddamn shovel. Maybe then I could sleep through the night.

  32. that was awesome! woke me up, too, and while i was Tweeting about it (yes, nerd), the lightning flash lit up my kitchen. and then another BOOM! i love thundersnow.

    @26 thanks for the king 5 link.

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