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Partly cloudy til the thunderstorms roll in around 4PM--some of them potentially severe. High around 77.
In yesterday's comments, Dirtgirl tipped me off to some severe weather happening around our area. It turns out two tornadoes touched down up in Franklin County, New York, near Westville. The National Weather Service in Burlington, Vermont confirmed these sightings that occurred around 6PM yesterday evening. (Westville is about 175 miles north of Albany and very close to the Quebec border.) Said the Westville Fire Chief:
"The top of it looked lime green. It seemed to be moving pretty quickly."
Gothamist guesses we'll have to wait for Joe to come back from vacation to explain what might have given the tornado a green hue.
Closer to home, WNBC reports that a tornado was spotted around 5:16PM threatening Hackensack, Bergenfield and Paramus, but it never touched down. (Which, just for the record, doesn't make it an "official tornado.") The tornado sighting followed on the heels of a hailstorm. Gothamist also wonders what weird combination of conditions can lead to a hailstorm. Hailstorms always seems to occur in the summertime, yet they consist of big gobs of ice falling from the sky. What gives?
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Hail happens when warm air and cold air colide. Warm air on the ground hits a draft of cold air up above. Droplets in the air travel from the warm to the cold, freeze, and fall back to the ground where the air is still warm. A short hail primer, recommended procrastination reading for the day!
Green sky might be caused by high amount of water vapor in the cloud diffusing light particles such that the cloud appears greenish in hue. It might be green because...
jayme, thanks so much for the links! they're great. we'll have to do a follow-up on both topics : )