Microburst

The pictures I posted from my cell phone yesterday are of a now confirmed microburst that squashed East Mesa last night.

The article on the damage from the nasty bugger can be found here:

http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2008/07/22/20080722weather0722.html

There's also a nice picture of the storm from a distance, taken by a professional using something other than a cell phone with 1 megapixel.

We lost a few trees at the church, and the brunt of the storm missed there. As I was driving west on Crismon, the storm was to the north of the road, and you could see walls of rain blowing south across it, pretty incredible. Reminded me vaguely of the movie Twister, except I didn't see any flying cows or barns roll across the road in front of me.

Lots of clouds to our east this afternoon, they've been looming out there since noon, getting darker and darker. Will it actually move west, hard to tell, at least the sun is going away at the moment, and not too soon, it's 105 outside with 40% humidity, absolutely gross.