This is kind of what thundersleet looks like through a windshield, taken from Boston Avenue downtown in January. CHRISTOPHER SMITH/ Tulsa World
After parking in my usual downtown spot seven blocks away, I realized that thundersleet is worth parking at a meter.
That's going to dismay our City Council, which wants to eliminate downtown workers like me taking up those spaces.
But
thundersleet sounds too scary to walk in, and it's just for a few hours.
A quick search of thundersleet shows that it's a winter thunderstorm, which is a little gentler but not nearly as exciting.
And television meteorologists do love to jazz it up.
Weather fascinates us in Oklahoma, and we learn early how to decipher forecast terms.
I've been so dismayed to learn a few weather words I was not taught as a child.
Gustnado sounds like the friend of Gusty, the beloved cartoon character created by the late Tulsa meteorologist Don Woods.
It's just a massive rotating cloud from a thunderstorm.
Then, there is thundersnow and downburst, which I'm not sure are actual meteorology terms or not.
I prefer the old-school words of snow, rain, thunder and lightening.
If things are really intense, add "storm" to the word.
Those I can understand.
But, if I ever needed a band name, Thundersleet would be a top five choice.
