2023 Rain Thread

[YGIFS 19456]

4 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

The grass in my backyard has greened, but not really started growing (zoysia) because it loves heat. I looked back at pictures taken in the yard past springs and it's always green and tall by now. This is the coolest spring I can remember. And yes, I'm soaking it in as much as possible.

Ours exactly this.  The color is there.  BUt there's it's not just getting the height and any trafficked areas are showing root exposure.  I gotta deep water some areas if this next week of precip doesn't pan out.  I'm also gonna aerate some areas, which isn't usually done this time of year but I gotta do something and then lay down some topsoil in some areas.  It's just goofy.  Weeds are finally subsiding and colors are okay and it's properly dense in most areas, but there's just these weird gaps with root systems exposed.  That doesn't ever happen in late April even with prolonged draught.  

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7 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Ours exactly this.  The color is there.  BUt there's it's not just getting the height and any trafficked areas are showing root exposure.  I gotta deep water some areas if this next week of precip doesn't pan out.  I'm also gonna aerate some areas, which isn't usually done this time of year but I gotta do something and then lay down some topsoil in some areas.  It's just goofy.  Weeds are finally subsiding and colors are okay and it's properly dense in most areas, but there's just these weird gaps with root systems exposed.  That doesn't ever happen in late April even with prolonged draught.  

We must have the same backyards. Exactly the same with mine. Actually ordered some plugs to plant as the zoysia grows pretty slow anyway. But anywhere there has been traffic looks really rough. Hadn't thought about spreading topsoil but I guess wouldn't hurt. 

Between drought, ice storm, traffic, and now 5" of rain in an hour, it's been hit really hard in the past year. The cool weather is just keeping it from springing back. Had about 7" of rain this month. That with 85 degrees would have it doing well. So it goes.

Edited April 24, 2023 by FirstTimeCaller

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Granted, it was 2 1/2 hours ago, but...

 

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[boknowstecmo 221]

Town of Dickens is getting it hard right now with a potentially significant tornado according to the NWS Lubbock.

[jimmyjazz 46976]

This big rain event is paying off about as well as my homecoming date, junior year.

[After irth 1245]

2 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This big rain event is paying off about as well as my homecoming date, junior year.

Getting a hard pounding, huh?

[boknowstecmo 221]

11 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

This big rain event is paying off about as well as my homecoming date, junior year.

What big rain event? This was a "somebody will probably see a big thunderstorm somewhere maybe" event. 

[jimmyjazz 46976]

2 minutes ago, boknowstecmo said:

What big rain event? This was a "somebody will probably see a big thunderstorm somewhere maybe" event. 

I was led to believe we would be getting shellacked with 'naders and haelstrom.

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9 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I was led to believe we would be getting shellacked with 'naders and haelstrom.

It's been very up and down.  Here's the next 7-day rainfall... but I feel like it's been roughly the same for a week. It's like stuff doesn't pan out, but the conditions are still there.

[SimonBolivar 11031]

14 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

I was led to believe we would be getting shellacked with 'naders and haelstrom.

That looks like it'll be tonight

[utee94 16066]

5 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

It's been very up and down.  Here's the next 7-day rainfall... but I feel like it's been roughly the same for a week. It's like stuff doesn't pan out, but the conditions are still there.

AKA, Austin weather, all the time, for all time.  

[dieucla98 2954]

Just got a text that they've already issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Travis.... Are they just testing the emergency broadcast system again because there ain't shit. Yet.

[Pam Cummings 9823]

I have the myradar app and it has sent me a message pretty much every day this week that there is a possibility of severe weather in my area. Has not come to fruition, but i'm sure tonight will deliver....

[boknowstecmo 221]

16 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

Just got a text that they've already issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Travis.... Are they just testing the emergency broadcast system again because there ain't shit. Yet.

Yeah that was a fuck up I imagine. Nothing out there right now.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

46 minutes ago, dieucla98 said:

Just got a text that they've already issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Travis.... Are they just testing the emergency broadcast system again because there ain't shit. Yet.

They just retracted the text lol.  

[AUS-97HORN 11991]

3 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

They just retracted the text lol.  

took them more than an hour to retract it.

 

thats some serious speed on the response.... lol

 

reminds me of when the State of Hawaii sent out the "N Korean Missile launch heading to Hawaii.... kiss your ass goodbye, this is not a drill" message...  and their disaster team had no way to retract the message, or send a follow up, so all of Hawaii thought they were getting wiped off the map in the next 20 mins.

 

took them 38 mins to retract the message

[Nicole44 22206]

Damn if the radar projections are correct people near and to the northwest of Stephenville better stay frosty and watch their six…in about an hour it looks like a pretty bad one. 

[SimonBolivar 11031]

15 minutes ago, Nicole44 said:

Damn if the radar projections are correct people near and to the northwest of Stephenville better stay frosty and watch their six…in about an hour it looks like a pretty bad one. 

You don't see white on the radar very often

 

 

 

I'm guessing that's crazy hard rain with a ton of hail

 

 

[Nicole44 22206]

5 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

You don't see white on the radar very often

 

 

 

I'm guessing that's crazy hard rain with a ton of hail

 

 

Scary shit regardless. Watching the projection anyway…how it develops. I guess if I am near or in Stephenville I’m thinking about shelter plans. 

[Nicole44 22206]

 

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[dieucla98 2954]

Just took the dog for a walk in NW Hills - it's like a sauna out there. Powder keg feeling and still sunny.

[NorthLoop 14421]

Hook echo headed for Waco

[Post Oak 20551]

6 minutes ago, NorthLoop said:

Hook echo headed for Waco

Yep.  Gonna be a wild ride in Waco this PM

[Post Oak 20551]

 Hook echo around China Spring.  Channel 10 is saying 2 in hail.

[TwiceHorn 31987]

So, good luck to you Centex dwellers.

Today has to be one of the biggest wet farts in the history of the Storm Prediction Center.

Today's Convective Outlook.

And nawf Texas looks to get some flash flooding, now.

I don't recall being Enhanced without at least a STS or Tornado Watch.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4998]

Pulled these out of the yard a few minutes ago...

Edited April 26, 2023 by NotActuallyALonghorn

[MissingInAction 25478]

So, bodies in trees or nah?

[Hpara759 1788]

Goldthwatie under the gun currently

[Post Oak 20551]

35 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Pulled these out of the yard a few minutes ago...

Where are you?

[utee94 16066]

9 minutes ago, Hpara759 said:

Goldthwatie under the gun currently

 

 

[SimonBolivar 11031]

Not even a drop here and 2 miles north the MIL was in her closet for a tornado warning and golfball sized hail. Weather is nuts.

[bolverk 30231]

6 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

Where are you?

I want to say he lives around the Tyler/Longview area.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4998]

Yup.

[HenryJames 67116]

10 minutes ago, bolverk said:

I want to say he lives around the Tyler/Longview area.

If you call that living.

[bolverk 30231]

Near Dublin. Bull is fine.

 

[Judge Roybeanbag 11856]

10 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Near Dublin. Bull is fine.

 

Tenderized beef!

[deter 314]

1 hour ago, SimonBolivar said:

Not even a drop here and 2 miles north the MIL was in her closet for a tornado warning and golfball sized hail. Weather is nuts.

Robinson??

[SimonBolivar 11031]

Just now, deter said:

Robinson??

Yup, but getting some good rain now.l with no hail or nadoes.

[deter 314]

1 minute ago, SimonBolivar said:

Yup, but getting some good rain now.l with no hail or nadoes.

Send the rain to Perry. I got s couple of tanks thst went dry last year that need more runoff.

[SimonBolivar 11031]

Just now, deter said:

Send the rain to Perry. I got s couple of tanks thst went dry last year that need more runoff.

Did you get any good stuff today? My parents in Elk got some wicked hail.

[SquishMitten 10493]

Gotta be fucking kidding. Grabbed this right before it passed over, and I only got a few drops

[Pam Cummings 9823]

Forcefield be forcefielding

[Nicole44 22206]

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9 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

Gotta be fucking kidding. Grabbed this right before it passed over, and I only got a few drops

[Post Oak 20551]

Knock on wood, Hewitt has had a pretty good night imo.  None of the nasty stuff and it's been raining pretty heavy here for about an hour or so.

Simon, I assume you're getting a decent downpour too?

[deter 314]

55 minutes ago, SimonBolivar said:

Did you get any good stuff today? My parents in Elk got some wicked hail.

Not there now.

[milkman 428]

Send the rain to Perry. I got s couple of tanks thst went dry last year that need more runoff.

We must be neighbors! My brother was out at the ranch and said we lost power tonight.