I'm right in the middle of this up in the Bronx right now. The rain is biblical, but the hail has now stopped -- yup, huge chunks of ice were falling in the Bronx in August. The wind has dropped a bit too, though not before a huge tree branch came down in the street outside (it looks like it may have damaged at least one parked car). There will certainly be more down all over the neighborhood by the time this is over.
Our summer weather has been like this a lot, lately, in fact. Not the tornado warnings, but the afternoon deluges. You can almost set your watch by them. It's gorgeous and sunny all day, and then around 5:30 or so, it starts pouring, and I mean torrential, and the wind is strong enough to send it sideways. It doesn't matter whether you have an umbrella: you get soaked anyway. So people huddle under awnings and in store doorways. I did that yesterday--
(I just *heard* the electrical crack of lightning. Shit.)
--huddled in a doorway for a while, and took a few pictures:
And then half an hour later, the sky is clear again and the sun is out again and, except for the rivers running down the streets, you'd never know it rained.
This is not normal New York weather -- at least, it didn't used to be normal. This is our planet on global warming. A warmer atmosphere is a wetter atmosphere. It makes me think of how it was always, always raining in Blade Runner...
(Just as I'm about to post, the tornado warning has been lifted.)
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