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11/22/99: Montessori MagicNovember is generally a bizarre month with no rain for the first three weeks and temps mostly in the 80's. Finally, on 11/22 relief comes in the form of thunderstorms from about 5:15 p.m through 9:30 p.m. and just after midnight on the 23rd. The highlight of this is watching an orange and pink sunlit cumulus tower explode into a full-fledged thunderstorm within 10 minutes, beginning around 5:15 p.m. Four or five or my after-school children and I watch the action on school grounds as all blossoms about five miles away. The children get particularly excited about the swiftly growing spears and curtains of rain punctuated by occasional bolts of lightning. As the storm passes off into the distance, it continues to grow. A seven-year-old boy exclaims with awe that it looks like piled up stacks of marshmallow cream. Later evening brings some beautiful rivers of lightning across the sky along with a couple of close C-G's. A midnight squall line ends with the beauty of moonlit thundermountains banked across the night sky. December brings the joy of thunderstorms each of the first three Saturdays. |
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