This is the sort of news blurb that makes me homesick for Chicago weather, some of the most electric (literally) dramatic, and changeable weather on earth.
52,000 feet thunderheads!!!!! that's like what twice the height of Mt. Everest...
who needs mountains?
Heat wave breaks with downpours and lightning
Published August 3, 2006
Deadly heat surrendered its six day grip on Chicago grudgingly amid waves of thundery downpours from clouds 52,000 ft. tall--towering atmospheric behemoths which generated one of summer's most spectacular lightning shows to date. Area cloud to ground lightning strokes, which flashed at a rate of 300 every 10 minutes around 7 p.m. had quadrupled to some 1,200 strokes only an hour later, evidence of the stunning rate at which t-storms were multiplying.
Radar screens, completely free of precipitation through late Wednesday afternoon came to life in less than an hour as clusters of thunderstorms overcame the rain-suppressing atmospheric "cap" (warm air aloft).
Downpours swamped Berwyn with 1.50" in only 55 minutes while t-storm gusts downed trees and cut power in south suburban Matteson and Frankfort.
glad noone was hurt, but really, for those who have never experienced one, there is nothing like a midwestern hot summer thunderstorm to make you realize the power of mother nature.....>
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