Wild Storm Last Night. 37 MPH Winds in Raleigh... Close to Tropical Storm Force! Temperature Dropping After Sunrise.. 39 Degrees. Falling Into Winter

 

Look at that Swirl, swirling.

Propelling Cold Air South.

We had a front whoosh thru fast last nite!

Awesomeness!

Yay! In the  morning there were leaves ...

...left on the tree.

Amazingly.

Wild winds last night.

Always amazes me the tenacity of the leaves.

15 years here I'm still in awe of Fall!

There's an old saying "can't see the forest for the trees" and I suppose in this case it applies to me. Why you ask? Because as I was obsessing over the incredible Pacific Coast Hurricane Force Low AKA Bomb Cyclone (this is why hurricanes have names, so much easier...) I wasn't focusing on the Ohio Valley Low that I knew was there as my friend as been watching it on X... I digress. I wasn't paying close attention to my local weather while watching hurricane force winds in Washington State. 

I knew the cold front was going to come through and I knew there was a Freeze Watch as a second front will push through and secure temperatures so low that we will be just above freezing ... probably. Always hard to say in Raleigh and to be fair early ... late November Cold Fronts do tend to overproduce! Kind of like Beryl on July 1st!! Another brush with freezing temperatures is supposed to usher in December here.

Again, one of my degrees is in International Relations, so while I try to ignore the threat of WW3 due to the Ukraine War heating up........I tried so hard last night to just lay back and relax and enjoy the CMA Show listening to Country Music I love and letting the world turn without me last night.

Suddenly there was this noise, more like a roaring sound as if we were suddenly getting lashed by a Summer Storm or Tropical Storm as what sounded like rain against my bedroom windows was loud. I figured it was raining, but I couldn't hear the rain. By the time I got outside on the balcony the wind had subsided some from the initial Gust Front and there was no rain but it looked much like the tail end of a passing tropical storm that had caught a cold front. That happens here often......a wild scene as the pines dip down so low you'd think they would snap and the maple tree moves in all directions like a scene out of a Disney Cartoon. 

Then I remembered "The Front" ... my front....that I had literally ignored as the big, huge swirl out West was so compelling. I also remembered Cantore and others said that DNA from Sara's remnants would help infuse the the front with tropical moisture. I stood there in awe, finally going back to the bedroom and the CMAs and as the window was open some in the bedroom I listened to the howling wind as a background component to the incredible CMAs.

When the CMAs was over the News came on saying many parts of Raleigh had Power Outages as trees had fallen on power lines and accidents happened in the suddeness of the storm. Happy I still had power I tried to go to sleep, but it took a while as the sound of the wind was wild. Gusty, fast wild and sudden and then quiet again and just when I thought it was over another gust hit the house and knocked something off the windowsill by the open window.

Typing fast without brakes this morning.

As I want to share the joy of that first strong cold front from far up somewhere else that suddenly comes and rocks your world. 

I love weather. I love Winter. Clear blue skies, I can see the sky as the hard wood trees have lost their leaves and everything is magical here for a Miami girl who grew up bored in perpetual summer with the only "fun" thing that happened ever was a Hurricane. That's it. Literally all that ever could happen was a Hurricane and on rare occasions in my childhood hail that covered the ground like snow. Oh, an once in a while my father's boring white Chevy was covered in reddish brown Saharan Dust.

There's a reason much of my High School Class of over 700 kids live Up North somewhere, usually Up North - Down South as we enjoy the Seasons, the change of weather and we know Summer has an expiration date.

Have a wonderful day and pay attention to your local weather while watching the global dance of the atmosphere as most of us do...

Sweet Holiday Dreams,

BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on X and elsewhere... 

X mostly weather and mostly just on X because I'm too lazy to try and be everywhere all at once.

Ps I asked my husband when he came in just now from outside "is it really that cold out there?" and he's a good indicator as he was raised in Upstate NY in the Catskills and he said quickly "Oh yeah!" as he's not as easily impressed with cold weather as me. After living in Miami for College he ended up in NC as he "loves the seasons" but not shoveling snow all the time. Yup, that's big in NC lots of people from NE and Upstate NY and Pennsyslvannia... seasons but and less shoveling snow!

I'll spell check later and maybe Edit, but trying to be spontaneous here today.