West Seattle Weather Watch: Lightning, thunder, rainbows

(Thanks to Karl for the rainbow photo from Westwood Village)
4:53 PM: Yes, that was thunder, as a storm cell moves through the area – we saw a big bright bolt of lightning a bit northwest of us a few beats before the boom. No special weather alerts but the forecast overall did warn of a chance of thunderstorms.

@westseattleblog Rainbow view from Admiral 'hood pic.twitter.com/sKHLSqwr9F

— Jason G (@jgrotel) May 6, 2015

5:13 PM: Longtime WSB’er “MetPatrick” is watching the charts and warns of another one that appears to be headed this way.

@westseattleblog Rainbow in the junction pic.twitter.com/pDUUJq4CyD

— NLB (@g7on) May 6, 2015

6:21 PM: Did you catch the hail (ice pellets) and downpour? If you use the Periscope livestreaming app, be sure to follow @westseattleblog – we were experimenting during all that. Meantime, thanks to everyone who’s sent rainbow photos – we’re adding a few here!

Deb Barker May 5, 2015 (5:12 pm)

The ‘nervous’ dog slept right through through the boom and the cat just yawned.

JoB May 5, 2015 (5:52 pm)

i was worried when i saw the hail.. but it was quickly followed by water so i doubt it did much damage to the garden. and to think i nearly gave up and put the sprinkler on to deep water the front garden around 4 :-)