All morning the sky above our house was full of starlings, circling the fields adjoining their nests on the five big trees across the road from us. They chirping away as though in a state of mass agitation. Was it a heavy, impending rain cloud, portending a massive electrical storm? Or the end of summer? They would touch down en masse on the field behind our house, then take off again, fly to their trees then repeat the process. What can such a sign... mean?In the hours before the Corpus Christi storm, snails started crawling up the sides of our house and beetles swarmed around the garden in huge numbers.
UPDATE: It's three o'clock in the afternoon. No storm, no starlings. So what was all that about then?
UPDATE: Seven o'clock and TVN news is telling us about a tornado that swept across southern Mazowsze, from Ĺodzkie into Lubelski, visiting Rawa Mazowiecka and Garwolin. Fortunately no fatalities.
The United Kingdom allegedly has more tornadoes per square kilometer than any other country in the world. I've often wondered if this, admittedly already surprising, statistic isn't skewed by poor reporting from other parts of the world. Poland must be ideal tornado territory: flat interior, powerful weather fronts, etc. Is there a Polish tornado-watch program?
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