(Sorry there might not be sound, the video quality is not to great.) Houston and most of east Texas, got some surprising sleet and snow showers today. It wasn't that surprising since the weather forecasters have been talking about it all week, but they weren't sure if any precipitation was going to form, or not and if the precipitation did occur, if it would fall down as snow, or sleet, so it was a surprise. The sleet pellets were really big too! At around 6:20 am, when the first sleet shower started to pass through my house, I thought that the sleet might have been freezing rain, or maybe ice pellets, but when I ran outside I saw that it was sleet that was falling. The sleet was as hard as ice, but as bright as snow. The sleet drops looked bigger than I remember, back when Houston got a sleet storm back in December, 2004. Which made me wonder at first if it was sleet, or just ice pellets, but it was sleet! I'm glad that it was sleet. I've bee...
LOL, Joseph. Funny how they name weather systems these days; I only remember hurricaines being named in the past.
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Ya I like it better that way. Now I can tell people what storm hit, or is coming. I wonder if they cancel the name when it is a bad storm, like they do with hurricanes? : )
DeleteI used to have a cat named Leon. He was a big orange Maine Coon.Leon the lion.
ReplyDeleteOh, is that, what that's from? : )
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