Geez, am I crazy - or is that what I think it is forming off of the coast of Alaska?

Yes the weather in the South West UK was messed up round about those dates. We had very sudden and violent rain. I joked at the time that i hadn't seen anything like it since the week of the Olympics in china.

Well, just to let everyone know...the weather in my area in Southern Oregon, after being highly unusual (see previous post) for the whole part of this year, has finally returned to normal for the time being.

The last 3 days we have not had any rain (like we normally wouldn't) and the temperatures has returned to the high '90s as they normally would be this time of year.

Just today, the animals stopped preparing for Autumn/Winter. The birds are singing instead of their panicked chirp, and the four legged mammals are playing instead of hoarding.

Knock on wood that it lasts.

And to the one who posted that Satellite Pic of the storm-front in the Pacific Ocean just south of Alaska, that has been the storm that has been hitting us here in the Pacific NW for quite a while now.

Great observations. The magnetosphere is taking some serious increases in particle density and intensity...

I live in western Wyoming. We have had a freakish amount of rain this year. What is normally barren wasteland in the summer now looks like Ireland. We have never had this kind of weather ever.

I can't say I'm complaining. Life is flourishing here this year.

[edit on 29-6-2009 by DaMod]

We had a storm on Saturday like nothing I’ve seen before. It was lovely bright sunshine one minute and then the sky went black. Lightning, thunder and hail. It lasted about an hour. My neighbour’s extension roof, which is clear plastic, was full of holes and another neighbour had several panes of glass on his greenhouse smashed. There is a RHS garden near us and they have a huge glass house where they keep bananas, mangos and lots of other exotic plants. The whole roof was smashed in and will cost thousands of pounds to repair.

Although it was destructive I LOVED it

My wife grabbed the camcorder and filmed me running around in the garden and yelping every now and then as I was hit on the head

I lasted about 45 seconds before I realised that I could get REALLY hurt and decided to come in hehe

The storm lasted about 45 minutes.

Originally posted by Muckster
We had a storm on Saturday like nothing I’ve seen before. *snip*

The storm lasted about 45 minutes.

Great report, where are you located?