Rainbow spectacle over Baltimore
Back doing the NEW journalism this morning after a day doing the OLD journalism and chasing the Goob down in College Park. Got back to Calvert Street and had a chat with Kurt Kocher, the spokesman for the city's Department of Public Works, about the easing drought conditions.
Kurt sent me this terrific photo he shot of a rainbow that appeared over Baltimore during Sunday's wild weather transitions. The location is Belair Road, near the county line.
The rainbow appeared as a cold front swept across Maryland. A broad gap in the cloud cover allowed sunshine to beam through the departing rain showers, producing the rainbow. Then another bank of clouds and showers moved in.
Here's what the gap in the clouds looked like from space.
In the meantime, rain and snowmelt to our north was sending huge volumes of water down the Susquehanna River. Operators of the Conowingo Dam were forced to open the floodgates to let the water pass. Frances Bowman, of Perryville, took the opportunity to drive up to the dam and shoot some pictures. Here's one she sent us. Wow.
The Susquehanna remains high, and flow rates through the dam continue well above - looks like five times - the norms for this time of year. Here's the chart:
Comments
I think that rainbow is pointing at Donahoo Ford. Someone grab Scott Donahoo and get his pot of gold!
Posted by: bryanintimonium | March 11, 2008 10:31 AM
Actually it was a double rainbow that doesn;t show up in the photo. Beautiful!!!!
Posted by: Mari | March 11, 2008 11:03 PM