tim@ism780c.UUCP (10/02/87)
Last night we had some strange weather in Pasadena. There were
several unusual things about it.
We would get gusts of hot wind from the south ( I don't know how
hot they were. Someone was claiming a 20 F temperature difference
between the hot winds and the calm air that preceeded the wind ).
These gusts of hot winds were mixed in with gusts of cold wind
from the east ( about as much colder than the calm air as the
hot winds were hotter ).
There was also rain ( big, cold, drops ), and a small amount of
something like hail ( the hail-like stuff was small, and some
people I know were claiming that it was small snowflakes ).
Some people went up to the roof of a building to watch all this,
and noticed that the clouds that seemed to be associated with
this mess seemed to be fairly localized. That is, in all
directions there was a large cloud free area between the
horizon and the start of the clouds.
Someone told me that they thought they saw a funnel forming in
the clouds, too.
Finally, the time was weird. This happened around midnight, and
lasted for maybe 20 or 30 minutes.
I would have expected strange weather like this to be driven by
heat from the sun. Midnight seems like a strange time for the
weather to start acting up like this. What could have provided
the energy needed to produce the hot wind? And what could have
caused the cold wind?
If the above wasn't enough, the next morning ( about seven hours
after the weather got back to normal ), we had a magnitude six
earthquake with an epicenter about six miles from Pasadena.
Could this earthquake be related to the weather? Or was this
just a heck of a coincidence? Or perhaps God wants to wipe
out Pasadena, and after the weather failed, He tried an
earthquake :-)
--
Tim Smith, Knowledgian {sdcrdcf,uunet}!ism780c!tim
tim@ism780c.isc.com
"Oh I wish I were Matthew Wiener, That is who I truly want to be,
'Cause if I were Matthew Wiener, Tim Maroney would send flames to me"daver@sci.UUCP (Dave Rickel) (10/02/87)
I have heard something about Earthquake weather, but i don't remember just what Earthquake weather is supposed to be. The gusts of hot wind sound familiar, as does the rain. Tornadoes definately don't. david rickel decwrl!sci!daver