July 15, 20223 yr Author 3 minutes ago, Armybrat said: A lady posted this on another message board….. Quote When I left for work I saw a pile of my potted plants & my door wreath laying in a twisted puddle in the front flower bed. Never forget.
July 15, 20223 yr 32 minutes ago, phdhorn said: While these showers "unusually" came in from the NE, it's not really that weird in the summer. The lows which form in the Gulf and try to break through the usual high dome squatting on us will spin c-clockwise and drop rain from the NE. Which is what happened. Is that what led to the S/SW trek of the big Jarrell tornado in 1997?
July 15, 20223 yr Is that what led to the S/SW trek of the big Jarrell tornado in 1997?Nah, that was the Comanche curse.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
July 15, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, jimmyjazz said: Is that what led to the S/SW trek of the big Jarrell tornado in 1997? Nope. But that was really unusual, a front moving in its typical SE direction through Texas also had a typical frontal line that curved toward the SW. A number of complex factors caused this front to slow down and allow the dry line to catch up to it. A situation develop where a gravity wave outflow (i.e. the juice needed to stir up the atmosphere on an otherwise very untypical day for that) followed this dry line SW, and the different set of circumstances enabled supercell formation on a day that was very unlikely to have it. Both conditions enabled both the strength and direction of the tornado. It would take a lot of eggheaded explanation to describe exactly what happened and most are beyond the average person's understanding (and some of mine) but let's just say that the combination of factors which influenced strength, and those which influenced direction, probably a once in a 1,000 year combo together, combined to form that event. Although each of them happens by themselves somewhat frequently in spring in Texas, the two coming together at that point were very, very unusual.
July 16, 20223 yr Nice thunderstorm earlier. An hour of rain and the temperature is 74 degrees now. Sat on the porch for most of the storm.
July 16, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, phdhorn said: Nope. But that was really unusual, a front moving in its typical SE direction through Texas also had a typical frontal line that curved toward the SW. A number of complex factors caused this front to slow down and allow the dry line to catch up to it. A situation develop where a gravity wave outflow (i.e. the juice needed to stir up the atmosphere on an otherwise very untypical day for that) followed this dry line SW, and the different set of circumstances enabled supercell formation on a day that was very unlikely to have it.
July 19, 20223 yr On 7/15/2022 at 11:08 AM, BLKNSTY said: Nah, that was the Comanche curse. Well actually that's what it's called when you get crabs from banging someone in her dirty Jeep.
July 19, 20223 yr Been since June 27 since there has been any rain at my house. It sucks so much that Austin's hottest months also coincide with the driest.
July 20, 20223 yr Well look there -- near normal in the two-week outlook. Oh wait, near normal August precip is basically zero.
July 20, 20223 yr Still zero rain at my home since last Spring with none predicted for the next 10 days with triple digit temps. I feel like my property is ripe for a wildfire.
July 21, 20223 yr 5 minutes ago, HookEm said: What is this "precipitation" they speak of? Never heard of it. Precipitation is from the ancient greeks and he was the God of false hope. He would lure you into a sense of hope playing the long game so you would really commit and then take you out back and fuck you in the ass.
July 21, 20223 yr On 7/19/2022 at 8:40 PM, miguelito said: Yep, we can't be below normal if normal is zero. Suck it, la nina! We can count on a turd floater the last week of August...right before the Dove opener.
July 21, 20223 yr 19 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said: Long national nightmare over? 3 different times over the past couple of months I've seen "above normal" precipitation projection outlooks on the Austin news. And nada.
July 21, 20223 yr 30 minutes ago, HookEm said: What is this "precipitation" they speak of? Never heard of it. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bee+Cave,+TX/@30.3154259,-97.9635904,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x865b37f4c74315e3:0x113488848db59d6d!8m2!3d30.306098!4d-97.9523768?hl=en
July 21, 20223 yr Another day of the models showing us near normal or on the edge of wetter than average. Looks promising that there will at least be the chance of some sort of rain in the next couple of weeks, but it ain't going to be next week:
July 21, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, FirstTimeCaller said: Another day of the models showing us near normal or on the edge of wetter than average. Looks promising that there will at least be the chance of some sort of rain in the next couple of weeks, but it ain't going to be next week: That's actually perfect, and what I would expect: a large "no rain for you" forcefield over most of Texas. Of course.
July 21, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, FirstTimeCaller said: oh that makes me feel MUCH better. Don't want to even talk about all the dead cornfields I saw b/w Austin and Houston.
July 21, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, texasdago said: oh that makes me feel MUCH better. Don't want to even talk about all the dead cornfields I saw b/w Austin and Houston. Yeah, except you intentionally let corn dry on the stalk in a lot of contexts (like grain corn instead of food corn), so may have been intentional (irrigation still possible even in this drought from LCRA). Source: Grew up in a community that was known for growing corn, and spent lots of times driving though "dead" cornfields that were that way intentionally. Edit to add: if your trust yankees, this was also easily found with a google search: https://www.nny360.com/artsandlife/why-is-corn-left-drying-up-in-fields/article_504b81c5-ede0-5798-b0f0-c8696315226f.html Edited July 21, 20223 yr by hornian
July 21, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, hornian said: Yeah, except you intentionally let corn dry on the stalk in a lot of contexts (like grain corn instead of food corn), so may have been intentional (irrigation still possible even in this drought from LCRA). Now you did it....you went and killed his drama
July 22, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, texasdago said: oh that makes me feel MUCH better. Don't want to even talk about all the dead cornfields I saw b/w Austin and Houston. 3 hours ago, hornian said: Yeah, except you intentionally let corn dry on the stalk in a lot of contexts (like grain corn instead of food corn), so may have been intentional (irrigation still possible even in this drought from LCRA). Source: Grew up in a community that was known for growing corn, and spent lots of times driving though "dead" cornfields that were that way intentionally. Edit to add: if your trust yankees, this was also easily found with a google search: https://www.nny360.com/artsandlife/why-is-corn-left-drying-up-in-fields/article_504b81c5-ede0-5798-b0f0-c8696315226f.html 24 minutes ago, Hpara759 said: Now you did it....you went and killed his drama Yeah....stop being children..............of the corn.
July 22, 20223 yr 17 hours ago, hornian said: Yeah, except you intentionally let corn dry on the stalk in a lot of contexts (like grain corn instead of food corn), so may have been intentional (irrigation still possible even in this drought from LCRA). Source: Grew up in a community that was known for growing corn, and spent lots of times driving though "dead" cornfields that were that way intentionally. Edit to add: if your trust yankees, this was also easily found with a google search: https://www.nny360.com/artsandlife/why-is-corn-left-drying-up-in-fields/article_504b81c5-ede0-5798-b0f0-c8696315226f.html Learned something new... my bad. That said, everything looks B-R-O-W-N
July 22, 20223 yr Just now, texasdago said: Learned something new... my bad. That said, everything looks B-R-O-W-N I can say this... there is little to no cotton planted in Stonewall, Kent , Dickens, Motley, Hall, Briscoe and Floyd Counties (where there is usually a lot) due to no rain when they needed it to plant.
July 22, 20223 yr ...and I can tell you the last time we were out in Llano, it looked downright awful out there. Need to see what its like lately or better not so I don't get depressed.
July 22, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, texasdago said: ...and I can tell you the last time we were out in Llano, it looked downright awful out there. Need to see what its like lately or better not so I don't get depressed. Our ranch in Kimble County looked like the surface of the moon in late May. We got two rounds of 2+" between June and July. Small shoots of green have popped up, but it's still pretty bleak.
July 22, 20223 yr @Hate here's the radar prediction for us at 3:20 in the PM. I bet we get skunked again as shit will dry up within a block or two of my abode.
July 22, 20223 yr Dark gray clouds showed up, wind has started blowing pretty good, temperature dropped about 10 degrees in a couple of minutes and I got this bit of hope: But until I see actual water on the ground, I'm calling it more bullshit.
July 22, 20223 yr 8 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said: Dark gray clouds showed up, wind has started blowing pretty good, temperature dropped about 10 degrees in a couple of minutes and I got this bit of hope: But until I see actual water on the ground, I'm calling it more bullshit. Might as well say "Ann-Margaret's coming."
July 22, 20223 yr On 7/15/2022 at 9:29 AM, texasdago said: quarter-inch. I'll take it. That's what she said
July 22, 20223 yr [mention=22]Hate[/mention] here's the radar prediction for us at 3:20 in the PM. I bet we get skunked again as shit will dry up within a block or two of my abode.
July 22, 20223 yr On 7/19/2022 at 8:40 PM, miguelito said: Yep, we can't be below normal if normal is zero. Suck it, la nina!
July 22, 20223 yr And "Rain Coming" has switched to "Mostly cloudy" with nary a drop. God damnit. 11 minutes ago, Hate said: Yep, go figure. Still got some clouds, but wind has died down and the force field threw another no-hitter over here.
July 22, 20223 yr 12 minutes ago, Nicole44 said: Rage is a lot more appropriate in this thread: I am the Nina The Pinta The Santa MariaThe noose and the rapistAnd the fields overseerThe agents of orangeThe priests of HiroshimaThe cost of my desire Sleep now in the fire
July 22, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, Hate said: Not a fucking drop. That’s 2.5 inches of rain since early May. And it's not like we got a whole hell of a lot in March / April either.
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