2021 Rain Thread

[Guest Lobo]

24 minutes ago, Bevo Num1 said:

32 minutes ago, Somnio said:

Not sure where you're from homeboy, but getting rain in these parts is catching a break.

Austin born and raised. I'm all about the rain, but the hail and wind can fuck right off.

Wind?  What do you have against wind?  I mean, yeah...nobody likes tornadoes.  But in general "wind"...?  Are you an anti-Aeolian?!?  You're an aeolianite, aren't you ?

[clapclapclap 9000]

Baseball sized hail in the San Antonio and Kendall/Blanco/Comal County storms:

https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=ewx&wwa=severe weather statement

 

Meanwhile, further north, dual tornadoes east and south of Grandview.

 

 

Edited May 4, 2021 by clapclapclap

[phdhorn 6224]

Yup, we got a popup from SAT that's tracking toward W. Hays and W. Travis.  Hopefully it'll weaken as the daytime heat dissipates.  I would think the hail event will end soon.  Hopefully.

[Anastasis 23469]

Getting kinda spooky looking in w Travis county. 

[Nicole44 22059]

I seeeeee it!

 

[Nicole44 22059]

This? 

[LABEVO 928]

Just now, Nicole44 said:

This? 

What is causing this color in austin

[Nicole44 22059]

4 minutes ago, LABEVO said:

What is causing this color in austin

Hmmm 🤔 

Damn houses were in the way. Wanted to get a better shot but there was nowhere to take it. I guess I could have jumped their fence. They seem like pretty cool people.

[Updawg 2266]

Looks like it’s splitting around Austin

[Nicole44 22059]

DFW looks like tons of fun right now. Be safe! 

[ROFL BOX 6649]

[quote]Close range tornado video via drone near Yazoo City a few minutes ago! Couldn’t outrun the tornado with drone and was trying to escape as the tornado had caught my vehicle at that point.[/quote]

Not my vid.

https://fb.watch/5gpgIqTU7K/

Facebook vid - have zero clue if it will post properly, embed, be a good link, whatevs.

[phdhorn 6224]

Yeah, kinda died out as expected w/loss of sun/heat.

One more possibility later tonight with the front, a line (if any), probably thin with a pocket or two of brief TS's; many won't get squat.  Not really a significant rain I think, just some wetness to accompany the front.  Then tomorrow nice and cool.

[Zepol87 9185]

Jeff on the scene.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1yoKMAEvjRDKQ?s=09

[clapclapclap 9000]

6 minutes ago, Zepol87 said:

Jeff on the scene.

https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1yoKMAEvjRDKQ?s=09

Yes, sounds bad.  Several injuries and needing extrication.  I-35 blocked south of Waxahachie.

[miguelito 11262]

I had golf ball size hail on the edge of that storm in Boerne. We could hear it coming, almost sounded like a train. 😳

Don't worry Rox. I'm already in a remodel and am scheduled for a new roof, if they can find enough shingles.

[Nicole44 22059]

Yikes...be safe!

 

 

[ROFL BOX 6649]

7 minutes ago, miguelito said:

I had golf ball size hail on the edge of that storm in Boerne. We could hear it coming, almost sounded like a train. 😳

Don't worry Rox. I'm already in a remodel and am scheduled for a new roof, if they can find enough shingles.

Wait... you have someone else doing the roof?  That's ABSOLUTELY the "worry" part.

 

 

[ROFL BOX 6649]

[Zepol87 9185]

5 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Yikes...be safe!

 

 

Yea my uncle is right where that 175 sign is in Kaufman County. Told him to pay attention and be safe. He text me back "gonna sleep good tonight all good" hopedully it's weakens 

[atomheartbevo 89652]

8 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

Well crap, went to bed with a forecast of maybe a 20% chance of rain tonight, now all of a sudden we're in an Enhanced Risk prediction of tornadoes and big hail.  NWS has gone into 'DFW, prepare your onus' mode.

 

[clapclapclap 9000]

Not that it matters, but it looks like the I-35 tornado passed within a mile of Dale Hansen's estate.

Edited May 4, 2021 by clapclapclap
"Bahbah bahbah bahbah bop bop bop bopbop."

[Willfully Horn 8008]

3 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Getting kinda spooky looking in w Travis county. 

My wife and daughter now know what I meant when I described the greenish orange clouds of my lone tornado encounter.

Edited May 4, 2021 by Willfully Horn
Tense

[ROFL BOX 6649]

Supposedly this is in Boerne from Monday.

Why won't any of you mo-fo's contact me?

Shit... it takes just as long for me to get to @RexWilson or @Homercles house as it does to get down there or the San Antonio area.  Ask @Eastwood... we travel.

[ROFL BOX 6649]

[InkaUtexas 25911]

Nice hail storm to wake up to in San Marcos. Nothing major, just loud. Was watching my neighbors run out and cover their cars as the storm ended. I laughed. 

 

 

[atomheartbevo 89652]

Trying to overwhelm the force field.  

[Wally Pryor 5261]

Executed another flea flicker.    Formed east of the city and moved ass backwards.

Storms are learning. 

[phdhorn 6224]

Some backbuilding but the front is SE of Austin.  Storms wont get any farther N/NW of where they are now.

[utee94 15812]

6 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

This is a map of today's ROFLBOX cold calls...

 

[ROFL BOX 6649]

18 minutes ago, utee94 said:

This is a map of today's ROFLBOX cold calls...

 

Actually, I've been spending so much time up in Derkaville that my phone now recognizes that word via AutoCorrect.

[clapclapclap 9000]

 

Edited May 5, 2021 by clapclapclap

[Guest Lobo]

Well, if you're in Newfoundland, you should appreciate the extremely accurate long-term models.  

But the rest of us are left asking, "Da Fuh?"  

Model for the rest of May in Austin looks to be seasonally normal temps (thank god!) and average to above average rainfall.  I'll take it.  

 

Edited May 5, 2021 by Lobo

[Hate 20108]

Yeah, models are picking up on possible system similar to last week’s in the May 12-16 timeframe.

[clapclapclap 9000]

8 minutes ago, Hate said:

Yeah, models are picking up on possible system similar to last week’s in the May 12-16 timeframe.

Better keep monitoring them

Edited May 5, 2021 by clapclapclap
Just to be safe

[Hate 20108]

Here is a cool image from the recent storms with an article explaining how they formed along a "dry line".

 

[utee94 15812]

It's never going to rain again.

[ROFL BOX 6649]

On 5/5/2021 at 12:48 PM, utee94 said:

It's never going to rain again.

Not with that attitude, it won't.

[Machinator 32099]

It's going to be humid as fuck today, isn't it?

[Biff Tannen 45676]

7 hours ago, Machinator said:

It's going to be humid as fuck today, isn't it?

Yes. And under a thunderstorm watch right now. 

[InkaUtexas 25911]

Forcefield went out a bit west today and said fuck you storms, go mess up Hays and Waco. 

[NorthLoop 14191]

13 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Forcefield went out a bit west today and said fuck you storms, go mess up Hays and Waco. 

That real nasty cell that came from Brady towards FBG just flat out died right before it got to Hays. I could see the thunderhead from my back porch in NB with a nice lightning show while it was 100 miles away then poof, the cloud just disintegrated at sundown. 

[Hate 20108]

20 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

Forcefield went out a bit west today and said fuck you storms, go mess up Hays and Waco. 

[Nicole44 22059]

So is San Antonio about to be bitchslapped again?

 

 

[ROFL BOX 6649]

28 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

So is San Antonio about to be bitchslapped again?

 

 

[phdhorn 6224]

Good chance of mostly rainy rain, not damaging rain, between lunch and dinner.  Severe could pop up but the risk area is mostly north of us.  Don't park it in the garage but have one ready just in the slightest chance...

If we're gonna get a heapin' helpin' of hospitable rain, it's gonna be today.  

Sun into the rest of the week, then cloudy, rainy weekend.

The rate it's going, June should be nice at least before hellfire and damnation return for the rest of the summer.


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Edited May 11, 2021 by phdhorn

[Newdoc 3439]

22 minutes ago, phdhorn said:

June should be nice at least before hellfire and damnation return for the rest of the summer.

Ah yes. Our upper level high that parks over central Texas. This is how I would personify it.

[Nicole44 22059]

I wish I had some kind of shield on my car or force field. I rearrange the garage so two cars will fit. It just drizzles. I leave my car outside it’s quarter size hail. I park in the garage and golf balls of ice rain from the sky. I’m not doing shit. Lol. 

[InkaUtexas 25911]

[Samson's Wig 3191]

19 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

I wish I had some kind of shield on my car or force field. I rearrange the garage so two cars will fit. It just drizzles. I leave my car outside it’s quarter size hail. I park in the garage and golf balls of ice rain from the sky. I’m not doing shit. Lol. 

[Wally Pryor 5261]

On loan from George Costanza.