So todays storms were vastly unimpressive next to the hail storm of days ago.... Sure, there was rain, wind, even a few lightning bolts and thunder blasts, but to be honest, I know it was a pretty disappointing round because I was able to sleep right through most of it (aided by NyQuil and Benadril.... stupid sickness from being outside in the hail). What did not leave me wanting was the rainbows that came between the fronts.... we are right now between the warm front of earlier... and the cold front coming. This is my first spring in this particular house... and so far, its been pretty photogenic. Maybe the cold front later will bring better storms, but I doubt it.

So, I am just your every day, average weather appreciater, living in little old Broomall, Pennsylvania. Nice little town, where NOTHING EVER HAPPENS. I am a firefighter, and we call our misfortune the "broomall bubble". Generally when storms come our way, even if they are coming straight at us, its like the bubble splits it around us. Last year, we caught an *okay* storm, that produced a rare complete rainbow... actually, more rare than that, it was a double rainbow, there were 2 perfectly arched, complete rainbows, one right next to the other, of which I have pictures, that seemed to start in Springfield (our border town to the south) and end in Radnor (our border town to the north).

Yesterday, the bubble burst. I had been watching the storms all day on radar, anxiously awaiting the first action of the year... and it did not dissappoint! I'm talking, sunny skies... to darkness in a 10 minute period... the line of which I caught in pictures. Then it opened up, I was able to find quarter and nickel sized hail, of which I also have pictures. But alas, as quick as it came, it left. Just a little tease of hopefully an active season to come.