It kinda looks like rain, but I know it can’t really be rain, because it’s August. In Los Angeles. It only rains here between November and April, and only when it’s cold. It was 100 degrees earlier today, and it’s still close to 90 right now.
Besides, if it’s really rain, it’s the weirdest rain I’ve ever seen. Huge, fat drops the size of pebble-sized hail, that actually sting a bit if they hit you in the face. It starts and stops like someone turning on a hose, either full blast or none at all, no in-between drizzle. I swear I was sitting at a red light where it was raining on the front half of my car while the rear half was completely dry.
My wife texted me that she heard this loud, deep rumbling sound that shook the house in Burbank. She seemed very confused. I asked if she was hepped up on goofballs.
Yeah, thunder & lightning storms are pretty rare here, too.
Some years ago I was awakened by a HUGE explosion that sounded for all the world like a plane crash. I waited for the sirens, but none came. Looked outside, all was normal except the sky was exceptionally ugly and gray. Checked the weather channel, and yup, there’s lightning storms about. No rain, just lightning. So I must have slept through the flash of a bolt that struck very close by.
South Texas here. I’ve heard the Old Ones speak in hushed tones of the Legend of Water Falling from the Sky, but I suspect they were high on Metamucil and Ensure at the time.
I moved from Salt Lake City to Japan and suddenly found out this wonderful invention. An umbrella.
Salt Lake gets snow. And every ten years or so there will be some summer day with 30 minutes of rain and all the Saints start to talk about the Second Coming.
As an aside, hail isn’t frozen rain. Rain is actually melted hail. For anything more than a light drizzle, the droplets actually form as solid ice, which then (usually) melts before it gets a chance to fall.
The craziest thing is driving in the exact kind of rain the OP is talking about, then suddenly having it stop, only to see a haze in the distance and drive right back into it.
Plus, the area where it stopped looks like it hasn’t had rain in ten years, the haze in the distance has trees blowing over from the gale-force winds and the Sun is beaming down on the whole region, as if to say, Rain? What rain? Where’s my shades?
Love the thunder storms, we are supposed to get more tonight, but I am hating the humidity that is going along with them. I don’t pay ridiculous amounts to live in SoCal to have it feel like Florida.
During my year in LA we got hit with an August rainstorm. It was a monumental cloud buster pummeling us with huge gumball sized raindrops, catching me with the top down on the car, and went on for well over 5 minutes. In that year I got to see it snow on the Hollywood Freeway, had a near collision with Angelyne as I noted in another thread, yet there were no earthquakes of consequence in that whole time, the only natural phenomenon I wanted to experience there. Two days after returning back east an earthquake sufficient to crack some walls occurred. OTOH the World Series quake happened just two weeks after I was in San Fran, I had been driving under the elevated highway that collapsed, so I guess I was better off missing that one. Stupid nature, inconsistent, unpredictable, and having no sense of proportion.
