Thursday, October 4, 2007

Hail on the equator

Yeah, so the title kind of says it all but I just wanted to share my excitement that we got hail today. Hail, like ice falling from the sky, on the equator. I love the weather in this country, this morning it was bright sunny and probably 80 degrees, then all of a sudden it broke into a roaring thunderstorm. It was so loud we had to stop class because we couldn't hear the people right next to you talking. Also really cool is that on the bus ride back to Quito you can see so far over the valley that you can see where the clouds start and stop. Most of the sky was only partly cloudy and very colorful as the sun was just starting to set, but then there was the little section of thunderstorm where it was so dark gray I couldn't even see the mountains behind it. It gives a new meaning to the term isolated thundershower.

Maybe you just had to be there, but I was happy. :)

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