Saturday, September 09, 2006
Time for a Beautiful Weekend
Storm strikes Herndon yesterday (photos included)
Jason Samenow @ 7:30 AM
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Yesterday's Storm
It was an impressive storm, lots of rain and wind. The second photo [pictured below] may actually be gustnadoes? The white, snake-like clouds moved very quickly at the front of the gust front. They may have been more rain then clouds as it was not raining ahead of the gust front, but immediately behind the front the rain quickly became heavy. It was interesting that a pilot of a large jet taking off from Dulles must have seen the gust front and banked hard to the left and headed east over Reston which is well out of the normal flight path to the south over Centreville. Seconds later the gust front was visibile.