Cool ... but not directly pertaining to temperature although the temperature has been affected

There's a blog title for you ... lol!

When I got up this morning I checked Weather.com & was excited to find the strong storms they predicted for today were still being predicted & now included a chance of tornadoes!  Weirdo that I am, if I can't have a good blizzard then I'll take a good storm.  I've been through my share of strong storms in my lifetime including a hurricane when we lived in Florida.  Fond memories ... truly!  Well, at about 11:45 this morning the security alarm began beeping with a tornado warning.  I immediately looked out the windows, spotted the darkest area of the sky, & then went out into the garage & opened up the garage door to watch Mother Nature in all her glory.  I've never experienced a tornado before although I remember every once in a while hearing about one touching down in a nearby town.  So there I was standing at the open garage door watching the sky getting darker & darker in the west.  The clouds were gathering low & moving quickly.  There was a strange sound which I assumed was the tornado.  I've always heard that a tornado sounds like a train but this sound was more like a continuous whirring sound.  The next thing I knew the town turned on its emergency alert siren.  A little while later the wind picked up, the temperature dropped, & the whirring sound became a whining sound.  Very distinctive!  I guess you could say it sounded like a train.  The sky looked exactly like this but without the funnel.

The tornado appears to have been somewhere at the very end of the street, an area blocked by the neighbor's house & the hill it sits on.  At one point another emergency alert siren, much louder than the one in town, could be heard coming from that direction.  It was an exciting 15 minutes or so!  

As I've been writing this post there was another alert issued for the next half hour but it doesn't seem to be amounting to much.  It sure is dark outside though.  

Weather has always excited me.  I think my favorite part of Romper Room was when Miss Debbie or whatever her name was would choose a child to help dress Wendy the Weather Girl for the day.  

Romper, bomper, stomper, boo.

Tell me, tell me, tell me, do.

Magic Mirror, tell me today,

Did all my friends have fun at play?

Happy times   : )