Very warm morning, upper 60s F at 6:30 am when I left home. The radar showed no rain in my part of town, although there were thunderstorms moving across the region. The chance of rain is supposed to go down this afternoon, so I decided to go for it after driving the past two days. Made it about two-thirds of the way to work before it started raining, sprinkles at first and then a steady shower. So I pulled into a sidestreet, got my rain jacket out of my front bag and quickly put it on. Of course, the rain stopped about 1/4-mile down the road once I had my jacket on.

We've had a bunch of violent thunderstorms in our area the past two days, with several tornadoes. I saw what appeared to be a funnel cloud in my rear view mirror as I was heading home last night. Saw this newspaper article this morning with a photo of the same funnel cloud, as I was driving in that exact area at the time. Scary. ... and the reason why I drove.

Possible twister or funnel cloud strikes southeastern Alamance County

http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/southeastern-24799-alamance-strikes.html