Phoenix Storm Report Has To Bee Seen To Bee Believed

A storm report involving a beehive and a woman's head
out of Arizona has some storm watchers looking like this, perhaps.

You've got to bee-lieve those National Weather Service storm reports. Even strange ones.

After bouts of bad weather, National Weather Service offices throughout the nation post storm reports.

These are all  just-the-facts-ma'am lists of damage, wind, flood, location, timing,  and other data after a storm.

They're useful in that they give you an idea just how bad the storm was.

They're also good to look at if you're assessing whether warnings ahead of the storm covered the right areas and conveyed the right information.

This helps make future forecasts better.

A typical storm report will say what time it occured, what happened, where, and who reported it. The report would look somewhat like this one, that I made up as an example:

3:30 p.m. 5/3/2019 Tstrm wind, 2 mi. E. of St. Albans Town. Trees down on Fairfield Hill Road, St. Albans F.D.

Every once in a while, though, you get a weird one. This one caught my eye this week from the National Weather Service office in Phoenix, Arizona

Yes, that actually happened. A bee hive blew on to a woman's head. It puts new meaning into the idea of a beehive hairdo.

The person hit was a 30 year old woman who was arriving at a daycare center to pick up her kid when the wind hit.

She was stung 30 times or so. She was rushed inside the day care to shower off the bees. She took Benadryl and was taken to a local hospital to bee, er, be checked out. She's not particularly allergic to bees and will be fine, says Fox 59 in Phoenix.

I don't mean to make fun of the woman who was stung, but I guess just like those small town newspaper police blotters, storm reports can actually be entertaininng.