KYW radio in Philadelphia says Meteor Storm Coming:
People along the east coast, including in the Philadelphia region, are in for an astronomical spectacle Monday night into Tuesday morning. Forecasters are predicting not the annual Leonid meteor shower, but a meteor storm.Over at Free Republic, BenLurkin says:
At the peak of a meteor shower you can usually see about 10 meteors an hour racing across the dark sky. But during a meteor storm, Wayne Adams, a sky watcher with the Bucks Mont Astronomical Association, says you see many, many more:
"This year they're predicting that we can see anywhere between three to five thousand meteors per hour at the peak."
Yikes! I know what happens next. The people who watch the meteors all go blind. . .and then the meteors deposit seeds that grow into trees . . . only the trees eat the blind people . . AND . . .these trees can pull up their roots and chase people down. . . it will be horrible . . .
Wait, that's the Triffids not the Leonids . . .
Never mind.