Photo By Jim D. Berryman JIM'S PICS Storms Move In...Or Do They? From time to time whenever I have a good shot of something I think you would be interested in seeing, I'll post them under "Jim's Pics". This photo, snapped in the evening on May 2, 2003, tells the story of how thunderstorms tend to fizzle in southern Connecticut in the spring. For the entire day, our weather people told us that Connecticut would have a chance of severe thunderstorms in the afternoon. Everyone was talking about it. Stormy weather fans were celebrating. And sure enough, a fairly strong line of thunderstorms developed in areas of northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. However, it took awhile for the storms to begin their march toward Connecticut. I told a co-worker of mine earlier in the day how it just didn't feel like a day when it could haul off and boom. It was a bit humid, but the south wind was way to chilly for you to think that a person would have to batten down the hatches later in the day. After all, I have midwestern severe storm sensibility. And sure enough, I was right. As the dark storm clouds moved in as shown in the photo above, the cool south wind over Long Island Sound really came into play. With water temperatures still only in the mid 40s, the cold, stable air simply snuffed out the line of storms as it approached southern or coastal Connecticut. I've seen it happen here many times. The cool air from Long Island Sound blowing into those thunderstorms simply extinguishes the storm. The clouds you see above in the shot looking across the Quinnipiac River in New Haven amounted to nothing more than a few sprinkles. The strong storms had vanished! That is one reason I miss Nebraska thunderstorms. Even though they tend to do more damage, they are thunderstorms true and true. Feedback/Your Storm Pic