The black sky anomaly

[Bendy Demon]

4 hours ago, Dragonbat said:

So for my second story, I remember an odd event that happened years ago when I was 14 or so.

It was early to mid summer, a bright sunny day with almost no clouds. I was putting the dishes away when it just suddenly got dark! I looked out the window to see black clouds rolling overhead!

The weather forecast for the day was mostly sunny, there where no storms on the radar anywhere near when I lived. But it was like night outside, the streetlamps came on. The clouds where jet black like it was the most severe and powerful storm ever! There was no wind, rain, lightning or anything that such a strong storm would have. Just inky black clouds from horizon to horizon! My mom came running upstairs saying we need to take shelter! But there was nothing except the darkness! After a minuet the clouds passed over and it was sunny again. Me, my mom and my dad went out and watched the dark churning clouds go away. Unfortunately we didn't think to take photos.

So I don't know what that was about. How can there be such dark clouds like that without the effects a storm would have? It didn't look at all like smoke, it looked like a dangerous storm. But it wasn't!

In my experience, clouds don't get super dark and churning unless its a full blown severe thunderstorm or supercell. I've experienced those and thats how the clouds looked. So I don't know, it was just the black sky anomaly. 

I had a similar experience like yours many years ago while waiting at a bus stop on the way to college.

The clouds on the horizon were black..not dark grey but BLACK as in the inside-of-a-cow black but in my case it was morning and maybe the temperature and other conditions were ripe as it started to rain and when I got to college it was dark as night, pitch black and kind of scary too and really poured like a house on fire!

I suspect that maybe in your case you were lucky the atmospheric conditions were not quite right to induce a severe downpour. Then the clouds passed and the sun came out as if nothing had happened.

[Dragonbat]

3 hours ago, Bendy Demon said:

I had a similar experience like yours many years ago while waiting at a bus stop on the way to college.

The clouds on the horizon were black..not dark grey but BLACK as in the inside-of-a-cow black but in my case it was morning and maybe the temperature and other conditions were ripe as it started to rain and when I got to college it was dark as night, pitch black and kind of scary too and really poured like a house on fire!

I suspect that maybe in your case you were lucky the atmospheric conditions were not quite right to induce a severe downpour. Then the clouds passed and the sun came out as if nothing had happened.

Interesting. A good explanation for it.