...just me 2 pence and a short recap of the events as I live on PMI and was home yesterday afternoon to "enjoy" this severe weather with my 3 kids on the ground in the living room.
This kind of severe weather phenomenons might be quite usual within other regions, but for PMI the supercell passing from SSW to NNE within an ours time was unseen before on the island and left partly catastrophic damage within its path. Too, it now brings a lot of bashing to the meteological institute on PMI for not given the slightest alert of severe weather, just mentioning a thunderstorm coming in.
We could see the weatherfront coming in over the Bay of Palma and while it closed up were aware that it would develop into something more than a "normal thunderstorm". Then "hell broke loose" within fractions of a second and we couldn't see further than 3 m with hail, heavy rain and a windforce we feared that the shutters would come away and the windows would go to pieces. I'm far from hysteric and as the electricity was already gone before, we had the house lit up by garden lights. So we just stayed put the 20 minutes the major forces hit and when it slowed down, went outside to see the damage.
On our property we got various almond trees torn into pieces by the windforce, the workshop behind the garage is now 4 poles looking skyward and several heavy items were sucked into the air and dropped on the opposite side of the main house ... just fierce wind wouldn't have driven them there.
Within parts of Palma and industrial areas, cars have been turned over by the wind and industrial sites have been totally destroyed. The damage caused is drastic and we're just thankful that only about 20 people were hurt, three of them said critically.
The airport was shut down for about 30 minutes due to severe weather and one part of the terminal connections damaged.
As I said before, in other parts of the world it might be "just another storm", but for us it was the fiercest weather force we've experienced within the last centuries.
Thankfully, the other 2 stormcells coming up from Algeria this morning passed by over the sea east of the island.
Stay save, everyone ;-)