Thunderstorms!

Thunderstorms were forecast for today, but the surprise was we had the first one pass just north of us at 7 AM this morning.  We were taking Liz to JFK for her flight home, and the last thing I wanted to drive through on the way to the airport early in the morning was a thunderstorm.  But we lucked out.  It passed just north of Sea Cliff after we were half way to the airport!  Whew!  But Liz was not so lucky - she boarded her plane on time, and it taxied out and was in a long line of aircraft waiting to depart.  She sat in line for an hour and fifteen minutes!  The storms made a mess of air traffic in the NY Area all day!  So we had storms moving through the area for perhaps four hours this afternoon.  I was on my way back from the grocery store at about 6 PM and I saw that the sky to the north was really dark, so I drove down to Sea Cliff beach and this was the scene I saw.   The cloud angling down and to the right is a thunderstorm happening in the middle of Long Island Sound!  I love that this is a color photograph, but there is not even a small bit of color visible anywhere in the photograph.

So you get two photos for the price of one today.  This is the view to the left of the first photograph.  It is the city of New Rochelle sticking up on the horizon.  It is not as good as the first photograph, but it is interesting enough to post.