We’re certainly having some odd weather tonight. The air doesn’t feel unusually “charged up” to me, as it did back in August ‘99.
Still, it is unnerving. We had a very close lightning strike at about 5:00; under 200 feet, judging from the thunder delay. It caused the GFI modules in our house to emit their little “beep of distress.”
I’ve been flying my little RC helicopter out-of-doors in recent days. As a result, I’ve been a lot more mindful of the wind direction than normal. It hasn’t been unusual at all to start flying against the wind out of the north, and within ten minutes it’s coming out of the west; then five minutes later, it’s calm, coming weakly out of the south.
Check out the WSYR News Channel 9 Doppler Radar.
It’s the absolute best for the up to the minute stuff.