More Like A Summer Storm

Towering cumulus clouds approach Bowman Woods Park from the northwest in Cedar Rapids, Iowa around 5:20 PM on Tuesday, October 12, 2010. A very long line of storms, of which this was a part of, began firing up across the state in a diagonal fashion--from southwest Iowa to northeast--before 5:00 PM Tuesday. The storms were triggered by a cold front moving through unseasonably warm weather with temperatures in the low 80s. Though the storms did not turn severe, a very summer-like effect of high winds, lightning and rain occurred as it reached this location around 6:00 PM.