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Title: Active weather the last few days
Post by: Brad Johnson on May 18, 2021, 03:01:50 PM: It's that time of year again ... 'nader season on the plains. Last two days have been average active for this time of year.

Got clear video of a textbook LP supercell just west of the house. It keep dropping funnels the whole time it was around. Slow-mover, too. We watched it for a good half hour before it went over.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GBUc6rkfg

Biggest surprise came with the hail. We were outside looking at clouds and I heard SWMBO say "that was hail!". Turned to go back in the house and a piece of 1" hail whacked me square on top of the foot. Stung like a beeotch.

Brad
Title: Re: Active weather the last few days
Post by: charby on May 18, 2021, 03:33:19 PM: ...while the Northern Great Plains and Midwest are droughty AF. Stop sucking our moisture Texas.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Title: Re: Active weather the last few days
Post by: MechAg94 on May 18, 2021, 04:19:38 PM: Quote from: charby on May 18, 2021, 03:33:19 PM
...while the Northern Great Plains and Midwest are droughty AF. Stop sucking our moisture Texas.

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Until recently, Central Texas has been pretty dry so not gonna stop. =D
Title: Re: Active weather the last few days
Post by: charby on May 18, 2021, 04:36:57 PM: Quote from: MechAg94 on May 18, 2021, 04:19:38 PM
Until recently, Central Texas has been pretty dry so not gonna stop. =D

supposed to be dry there ;)
Title: Re: Active weather the last few days
Post by: Cliffh on May 18, 2021, 06:51:51 PM: According to our rain gauge, we've had just under 3" of rain in the last 36 hours.

Yesterday afternoon our thermometer was reading 81*, weatherman said it was supposed to have gotten down to 32* over night - I didn't stay up to verify.

The good thing is, the pond is full. The bad is that I can see the grass growing, and we're not mowing any time soon.
Title: Re: Active weather the last few days
Post by: Larry Ashcraft on May 18, 2021, 07:08:02 PM: We've had over 3" of rain in the last 4 days. That's unusual, because our average annual precipitation is around 12".
Title: Re: Active weather the last few days
Post by: 230RN on May 18, 2021, 09:19:15 PM: Brad Johnson noted:

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Turned to go back in the house and a piece of 1" hail whacked me square on top of the foot. Stung like a beeotch.

I don't remember where I got it, but I used to have one of those old-fashioned metal protective helmets for workers. I used it as my hail hat, to go button the place up when it started to hail. But man, the noise of hail hitting it was impressive.

With a bunch of moves and a divorce and this and that, I lost track of it. Probably a collector's item and worth a little bit.

I once went out after some really foul weather to check my rain gauge and found a small fish in it. No kidding, but nobody believes me.
Title: Re: Active weather the last few days
Post by: Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas on May 18, 2021, 11:48:05 PM: Last year my car took about 6k in hail damage in an hour. That's what inspired me to get a place with a garage.