Is that a twister, Auntie Em?

By adamg on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 4:18pm

It sure looks like a twister was sucking all the sneakers out of the New Balance building in Allston around 3:45 this afternoon, doesn't it? Meanwhile, over by North Station, Scott saw impending doom:

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stormy weather

By david_yamada on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 5:47pm.

As a stormchaser-in-training (see http://newworkplace.wordpress.com/2008/12/23/labor...), these photos gave me a thrill.

And the Storm Prediction Center is showing a lot of wind and hail around these parts: http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html.

But no tornadoes as of this writing...

New Balance building in Allston?

By Auntie Em on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 8:22pm.

Isn't that the home of WRKO? Maybe it was just a windbag Howie Carr low affront.

Was the New Balance cloud a look-alike?

By dmoisan on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 11:03pm.

I'm a weather spotter with SKYWARN and it's not uncommon to see a lot of clouds that look ominous, even on a nice day. When you're new to spotting, everything looks like an anvil, mammatus, shelf cloud, wall cloud or funnel! I still do doubletakes when I see things like this and I've been at it for 10 years!

That does indeed look ominous, but had it been what it looked like...well, free shoes for everybody!

Definitely not a funnel

By adamg on Tue, 07/07/2009 - 11:48pm.

When I was watching the clouds move by, the "funnel" was this blobbby thing that just happened to go into a sort of funnel-looking shape as it passed behind the building (if you look carefully, you'll see it's not really right overhead the NB building). I didn't even notice it looking like a funnel until I brought the photo up on my laptop, so it's probably due more to the shortening of perspective you can get sometimes with a zoom lens.