-Caveat Lector- --- donna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To: "RadarMatrix2003" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "donna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 21:58:56 -0400 > Subject: [RadarMatrix2003] Black ring in the sky > > What could this possably be? Those radar anamations > were flairing crazy this morning! > > http://news.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?xla=saen&xlb=180&xlc=1022772 > > Moisture coming in from the Gulf of Mexico dumped > more than an inch of rain in parts of San Antonio > this morning, causing minor flooding in some areas > of the city. > > The National Weather Service in New Braunfels > recorded 1.03 inches of rain at the San Antonio > International Airport between 9 and 11 a.m. > > "There's a trough of low pressure over the Gulf of > Mexico, and the disturbances of that system is > what's causing the rain," said Dennis Cook, a > weather service meteorologist. > > More rain is expected through Thursday. > > "It's real nice to sleep in," Cook said. > > In addition to the usual fare that comes with a > thunderstorm, many on the city's Northeast Side > witnessed an unusual dark circle in the sky, which > turned out to be a ring of smoke that a weather > official said emanated from an "explosion caused by > lightning." > > Several people reported seeing the ring this morning > shortly after a lightning bolt struck an area near > North New Braunfels Avenue and Nacogdoches Road. > > "I saw the lightning strike out the side of my eye, > and when I turned to look, there was a plume of > black smoke rising up . with the circle of smoke on > the top of it," Chris Yanas said in an e-mail to the > San Antonio Express-News. > > Chuck Fehlis, an associate appraiser who works at > Blair T. Stouffer and Associates at Loop 410 and > North New Braunfels, said a co-worker told him about > the ring. > > So Fehlis took his Kodak DC5000 digital camera and > walked out in front of his building to check it out. > > > Fehlis, 29, took three photos of the large circle in > the sky at 10:44 a.m. > > "The circle got larger and larger until it finally > started breaking up," said Fehlis, who was among > seven co-workers looking up at the rainy sky. > "Nobody had ever seen it before." > > Fehlis' photos were forwarded to the National > Weather Service in New Braunfels, and at first it > was thought that the ring in the sky was the sun, > with light bouncing off the clouds to create a halo > effect. > > But after receiving several calls from people who > witnessed the lightning and the ring in the sky, the > weather service changed its assessment. > > "This (lightning) is more likely the cause than the > halo effect I described earlier," Jon Zeitler said > in an e-mail to the Express-News. "In any event, > it's still unusual." > >
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