Clouds, clouds and more clouds intermixed with bright sun has been the story for most of the past week. Sunday morning was punctuated with loud claps of thunder and keen lightning flashes along with rain showers. Thankfully we received much needed rain the severe thunderstorms with blinding rain, damaging hail and high winds passed the area by. Off and on rain chances continue in the forecast for rest of this week.
It has been an interesting week for area residents who enjoy watching the clouds.
Monday night a spectacular rainbow appeared to arch over Superior. From the newspaper office it appeared the rainbow started near the Salem Lutheran Church, arched over Superior and touched down in the Kansas hills. For those seeking the rumored pot of gold at the base of the rainbow, they had to quickly decide whether to dash north or south. The rainbow didn't last long and we haven't heard of anyone finding the gold.
Instead of dashing after the pot of gold, many area residents dashed for their cameras and tried to preserve the image for another day.
A video of the rainbow taken by James Bailey from near the front of the Living Faith Fellowship Church is posted on this newspaper's web site. The website may be found at superiorne.com.
It's probably good we didn't go running after the pot of gold as the rainbow was much bigger than we thought.
Social media contributors have posted pictures of the rainbow taken from such diverse places at Smith Center, Hastings and Lincoln.
Day after day, we have had interesting cloud patterns and colorful sunrises and sunsets.
Friday a number of area residents became excited by what appeared to be tornado clouds in Thayer County.
While they asked for reports of funnel cloud sightings, the National Weather Service described the clouds as cold air funnels. The weather service had earlier predicted their likely formation in Thayer County and advised they seldom reach ground and generally are short lived and lacking in power.
The funnels are associated with rain showers and are not typically a threat.
Social media contributors reported seeing three near Byron and six near Chester.
The first full-day of summer kicked off with a bang on Sunday morning as the area was rocked with a series of non-severe thundersorms. The area was placed in a Category 3 watch when more serious storms were expected to form on Sunday afternoon. However, most of Sunday's severe weather was further south in Kansas. These storms left a barrage of damaging wind and hail reports including several 80 mile per hour wind gusts at well as a report of 3.25 inch diameter hail near Lorraine, Kan.
This is June and more tumultuous weather is in the forecast for this week.
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