Weird weather phenomena yesterday....
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2023 9:16 am
Since more than 40 years I live now in Cyprus, however I never experienced that strange weather phenomena that happened yesterday afternoon at my place in the Paphos hinterland.
For over one hour there was heavy thunderstorm very close to my area with hundreds of lightnings and thunder, some of them made the house shaking.
As there was no wind at all it remained in place for that long time, however if you expect heavy rain with it.... none! Just a few rain drops reached the ground and the roof tiles absorbed this little amount, so nothing arrived in my empty rain barrel.
I did some research on Google and found this at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_thunderstorm
They explain that dry thunderstorms occur mainly in deserts ....... so perhaps this is another prove that we are in climate change also in Cyprus.
Max
For over one hour there was heavy thunderstorm very close to my area with hundreds of lightnings and thunder, some of them made the house shaking.
As there was no wind at all it remained in place for that long time, however if you expect heavy rain with it.... none! Just a few rain drops reached the ground and the roof tiles absorbed this little amount, so nothing arrived in my empty rain barrel.
I did some research on Google and found this at Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_thunderstorm
They explain that dry thunderstorms occur mainly in deserts ....... so perhaps this is another prove that we are in climate change also in Cyprus.
Max