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I was leading an urban hike Sunday, which planned to conclude in a 2-mile, low beach walk, from Carkeek Park back to Golden Gardens. We upland hiked in sunshine, but with possible thundershowers predicted late afternoon and clouds coming across the Sound, my plan was to get to the beach at Carkeek Park, listen for any thunder out over the Sound, and if any, hike or bus back upland.
ReplyDeleteHiking down through Carkeek Park, clouds moved in and showers started, which did not bother us. About hundred yards from the beach, still in forest, we were greeted with one very loud and bright, simultaneous boom/flash ... directly overhead and seemingly low. We quickly retreated to under cedar trees in the canyon bottom forest, as graupel poured down and covered the ground.
Twenty minutes later, the sun came back out, and we walked back to Golden Gardens on the beach.
That was the only thunder we heard all day and we did not notice any graupel on the beach.
Was that lightning/thunder and graupel event related to the Carkeek Park canyon break in the shoreline bluffs and land elevation rise funneling and concentrating some things in the atmosphere of the incoming squall? Was it due to pressure differentials at the break in the land rise?
... low tide beach walk ...
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