A bumpy ride

[cjw50310]

I for one would be headed towards my basement if I saw that headed my way. In that snap, it's starting to get the sickly green tinge that often precedes a tornado. Or at least I'd be headed that way after a good, long gawk to see what it was up to.

Fortunately, that season has pretty well passed in this part of the plains. Just the snowy bits now.

Chris

[emfrat]

In that snap, it's starting to get the sickly green tinge that often precedes a tornado. Chris

Hello Chris - It's interesting you should say that. Where I am, we get some cracking storms in the seasons (Spring and Autumn), though fortunately full-on tornadoes are extremely rare.
The popular belief here is that the green tinge indicates bad hail, like the plum-size stuff a few years ago that dented the metal cladding on one side of my house and broke three windows.
I must say I haven't found it a very reliable indicator, but in any case I get the vehicles under cover and then enjoy the display.
ATB
MikeW

[simondix]

If you like looking at clouds try the Cloud Appreciation Society website. Quirky but very good pics.

[Chris Trott]

Here in Texas, "green" means hail as well. It's when it turns purple and orange that we start getting worried (and I'm not kidding, I've seen it myself, it's an amazing sight) and run for good cover. We're even worse off here because we get a lot of "HP" (High Precipitation) Supercells which mask any tornadoes in very dense curtains of rain so you don't know if there's one on the ground until it's almost on top of you.