A sound of thunder

[siderea]

It's about 5:15pm and I'm in Porter Square. There was what just sounded like two cracks of thunder (about five minutes apart) -- out of a clear blue sky.

Did anybody actually in Davis Square at the moment also hear these?

Update: Found the storm. It's directly over the building I'm in and the back parking lot. Out the front windows, it's beautiful and sunny. Out the back, it looks like incipient Armageddon. It's like we have our very own thundercloud teathered to the roof.

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

It's not clear blue anymore :)

[siderea]

Good grief. There's a thundercloud over the Henderson Carriage Building and the parking lot in back. From the Mass-Ave-side windows, it's still sunny and nice out!

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

I am in that building right now. Out the window: blue sky. Look up: death cloud. It's fully raining 3 blocks away. Craziness!

[cos]

In the mid 90s I worked at a Davis Square based consulting company that had people working at various client sites around metro Boston, but we all hung out on an IRC channel together - it was our virtual office. I remember one day when we got different weather observations on channel from Davis, Harvard, Memorial Drive, downtown, and one other place in the area. I don't remember which was which, but they included:
- rainy and windy
- partly cloudy and cool
- gloomy and cloudy with no raid
- snowing and calm

[aki.livejournal.com]

Remember a year or two ago when we have the snowthunder?

[cos]

Very much so, though I prefer to call it thundersnow.

That's a different sort of weird, though - it wasn't that we were all having different weather in different parts of the city at the same time, it was that we were all having the same very strange weather.