A wind-driven lightning and hailstorm that quickly passed across the city also rumbled across Capitol Hill late tonight. The storm arrived on Capitol Hill around 10:42 if you believe Twitter — about 5 minutes after reports started spreading across the social messaging service’s Tweets from the West Seattle area. In the 15-minute window around the storm’s coming and going, there were 1,267 Tweets about ‘thunder’ in the Seattle area.
Here’s what a few of you had to say about it:
Power on the Hill is still on (fingers crossed) but there are reports of outages in Leschi and Queen Anne was dark earlier this evening. The Western Washington forecast says to expect more of the same blustery wet weather through Friday and into Saturday.
Here’s a video of the heavy downpour from Cheesecake:
Rainstorm in Seattle – Nov 5 09 from David Albright on Vimeo.
I’m visiting from Oklahoma where we normally see a few of these a year. This was impressive as it came down hard enough to look like snow. Motorists were having problems driving for a few minutes afterwards.
The storm hit Alki at 11:35 p.m. and had to ice pellets attacking the windows, felt like we were under attack.
It woke me up and I had to get out of bed to watch. I LOVE STORMS!
No one has seen or heard a thunderstorm before? Let’s get excited about something more important.
Yeah, the lightning & thunder (flash-boom! about 3 times), sideways wind and then hail also hit us on the Hill around 11:35.
PS: Everybody talks about the weather – whether it is exciting/important or not. Last night, it was pretty exciting and intense esp. when you are inside safe and warm and the lights are staying on.
I think I saw Bishop Pickering out playing golf last night.
Yeah, I think this is pretty funny. I’m from the Midwest and recently moved here from Florida. This was not a strong thunderstorm at all.
oklahoma sucks.
I love great storms like this one, I’m just bummed that I was out of town when this one rolled through :-(