The 5-minute winter storm

[fishsupreme]

Seattle weather can be so weird at times.

At 3:00, I walked across the street to go to a meeting. It was bright and sunny out, and I was remarking on how nice the weather was; it was perfectly comfortable, with no need for a jacket.

At 3:30, I was sitting in the meeting, and the sun went behind a cloud. It got darker out. Suddenly, it began rain, snow, sleet, and hail, simultaneously. Four distinct types of precipitation were falling -- or more of blowing, since the wind was going so hard as to make the precipitation nearly horizontal. Due to the size of the windows in the meeting room, it made a tremendous racket.

In the middle of all of this, the sun came out again. So it was now raining, snowing, sleeting, hailing, and sunny out, all at once.

5 minutes after it began, it ended. It's now sunny and clear out again... but on the walk back from the meeting, I discovered it's also windy and cold now.

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[eagle243.livejournal.com]

I used to live on the east coast of Florida, and we had the same thing happen. I could go out the front door of our house and it would be raining, and I could go out the back door and it wouldn't be raining. The rain lines were literally that specific. The mid-afternoon rain would last 5 minutes, during which time we kids would go inside to play -- then right back outside when it was over.