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[folsom500]

Couldnt find the other topic on this but thougt I was worth noting that we had a visibile Funnel cloud in that past few minutes-- did not last long and receded but it was there to the south of 50 ..... Never seen one before but this was the REAL thing///

Coool....

Oh by the way - the score currently as I understand it is THOR 3 strikes and the rest only a few pins.... more later on your normal sports channel ...


Cheers
F500

[jagayman]

Anybody catch any pictures?

The folsomweather.com cams point NW to NE so they missed it

Jason

[Farley]

One of the last claps of thunder made the glasses in the cupboard "ring".

[folsom500]

Anybody catch any pictures?

The folsomweather.com cams point NW to NE so they missed it

Jason

I tried to get my phone cam out in time - took a couple of shots but could see nothing
the Thunder shook the place like nothing other than a Aerojet rocket test...
Was cool ....

Cheers
F500

[jagayman]

It shook us up at Intel too. After a while, it was clear that they weren't emptying dumpsters outside

Jason

[jagayman]

Picture on kcra.com:
http://www.kcra.com/...859/detail.html

[forumreader]

Very weird. We are in ER on the top of a hill, so we were able to see this funnel cloud very clearly. (Sorry, I didn't think to get the camera. Frankly, we were a little concerned. I had never seen the "real thing" before.) We watched it decrease in size, and then just disappear into the clouds. Then we received a little hail.

About 30 mins. later, I went to the high school to pick up my son from athletic practice. The football field was white with hail. It actually looked like snow. The roadsides and fields along side Hwy. 50 from Prairie City to E. Bidwell are also white.

Check the news tonight. We saw two news vans taking pictures, etc.

[john]

I'm in AZ today but my wife told me it was snowing (though not sticking). If anyone has any pics, please emai lme so I can put it on the front page...

[forumreader]

What's the difference between snow and a lot of hail that stays on the ground for more than an hour?

Seriously....I don't know!

[UncleVinny]

Well, snow is the result of water freezing in a specific pattern, and appears as that light fluffy flakes we are all so familiar with.

Hail is the result of rain attaching to a speck of dust, the convection currents in the cloud rotate that speck around several times in the turbine of the thundercloud, and with each cycle inside the cloud, the frozen water attracts another layer of ice to itself. This then falls as small spheres of ice, which is much different than the lighter snowflakes.

That's my limited knowlede take on the phenom. I'm sure there's a meteorologist in the crowd who could go into much more detail, and with more accuracy.

[bishmasterb]

What's the difference between snow and a lot of hail that stays on the ground for more than an hour?

Seriously....I don't know!

I don't know either, but we were able to make a snowball (hailball?) from it.

[Dave Burrell]

I'm in AZ today but my wife told me it was snowing (though not sticking). If anyone has any pics, please emai lme so I can put it on the front page...

On my way home tonite I saw cars driving down Riley that had snow on them

[cw68]

It was mostly sunny and clear most of yesterday down here in Land Park. Bizarre.

[folsom500]

Sounds like Thor is at his games again- thunder to the north this time- almost continuos for the las 5 minutes ( 12;52 pm 3/28)

Will Advise his scores at end of play....

Cheers
F500

[tessieca]

The sky has that creepy half-bright, half-dark look to it. Lots of thunder, but nothing more yet.