#we're near some barns it'll be okay' but then when i checked a few minutes later it was JADE GREEN and i knew we were fucked

[jtownraindancer]

So I need to add a thing picked up from several generations of farmers & my own 30 years of firsthand experience for anyone who might not have their phone or phone service or a place with tornado sirens nearby:

If you feel the temperature starting to dip and notice the gray, possibly stormy clouds are getting a pale-blue/turquoise colour like so:

It's time to find somewhere to shelter for a bit. You're very likely about to get a thunderstorm, possibly hail. The wind will pick up, and you have only about 10 minutes or so to bunker down.

If, however, those clouds start to turn a pale-green/jade colour like this:

The odds are very, very likely that you're going to get a very, very intense storm. Get to shelter of some kind immediately to be safe.

While there's no official study correlating the sky colour to storm activity, I do know that the only times I've ever seen the sky turn that shade of green were always followed by a tornado warning only moments later.

Also make sure to trust your other senses. Does the air pressure feel different? Temperature changed? Are you out boating and noticed the waves getting choppier? Wind picking up? Birds unexpectedly flying in large groups? Birds going quiet?

My cousins and I almost died in a tornado a few years ago in Central Pennsylvania, and I swear that sky was practically a jewel just before the downdraft hit.

Be safe out there, y'all.

Love & Light

Without looking it up, when you first hear "Tornado Warning", what does that mean to you?