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Mammatus at sunset

Yes, that's exactly what the color looked like. Getting later, and the mammatus becoming sparser and less organized, the most violent part of the storm having passed. Almost starting to look like a sunset, rather than like an alien planet.

We are not in Tornado Alley here in central NJ, and most certainly are not accustomed to this sort of weather. It felt like it dropped ~20 deg. F as this front came through. I haven't yet found actual temperature data (pointers welcome) -- but I did find www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/090626_rpts.html. You can see this very squall on the national map, as a line of blue points through central NJ; and the text report lists Middlesex County, NJ: "NUMEROUS TREES DOWN THROUGHOUT THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY, ESPECIALLY A LINE FROM WOODBRIDGE TO OLD BRIDGE." What's more, this same storm system spawned a tornado in CT (the red dot on the map), very rare for this part of the country. It was on all the evening news programs.

Despite the close brush with violence, we never got more than a smattering of raindrops from this storm. The brunt of it must have hit just a couple of miles east of here.

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Uploaded on Jul 15, 2009

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