This late winter weather is fascinating!  We’re weather obsessed the past couple days with the wild, mountain-like storms hitting normally weather-perfect Oakland.  Today, the winds and sky were absolutely beautiful, right before the rains arrived this afternoon.

In this view of the thunder clouds, it almost felt like we were in Kansas and awaiting some kind of funnel cloud to drop down.  The winds were very strong and the clouds were moving so quickly.

Not that we’re going to become storm-chasers, but it was [pick your superlative] to witness this intensity outside – and pretty harmless around here.