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Post by Man in Black on Nov 15, 2009 2:29:53 GMT -5
That's the way we were the last several years... the only problem is this is a wet climate. Everything was dying, it was a terrible drought. The lakes and water tables are still low because all the rain is soaking into the ground. Now maybe they will fill up some. Here are the sky pictures I took as Ida passed through. This is what I was hoping for. I'd have taken more during the day, but I felt horrible and I had to drag myself out to get these... I wasn't about to miss it. First pic is the gray skies of the morning and the rest are the afternoon as the system cleared out. It was breathtaking as I expected it would be.    You can check out the original large sizes here, they are the ones that really do the sky justice: imageevent.com/afap/photographix/skies |
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Post by Jason on Nov 15, 2009 14:12:23 GMT -5
Those are awesome. I have tp admit, though, as much as I dislike the weather here, we get some beautiful cloud formations here.
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Post by Man in Black on Nov 16, 2009 23:40:04 GMT -5
I think there are probably awesome clouds everywhere. Most people are just too busy to care. It doesn't matter where I go I'm always looking at the sky. You never are going to see the same exact thing twice.
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Post by Man in Black on Dec 4, 2009 12:27:07 GMT -5
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Post by Jason on Dec 4, 2009 21:08:33 GMT -5
Did you stay up all night or get up early?  Awesome pictures! |
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Post by Man in Black on Dec 5, 2009 12:34:22 GMT -5
Did you stay up all night or get up early? Awesome pictures! I was still up. We had snow this morning I think, because Marii took the Jeep to work... but I slept late and missed that. There are winter weather warnings out for all the mountains around us. |
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Post by Jason on Dec 7, 2009 17:34:34 GMT -5
We're getting a TON of rain today... Ahhh, I love it.
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Post by Man in Black on Dec 7, 2009 19:21:51 GMT -5
It just got cold here. And the rain has let up a bit. We had more flash flooding last week.
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Post by Man in Black on Dec 7, 2009 20:01:39 GMT -5
This is a storm we had during the summer. It came directly over my house. I watched it for a while thinking that it had all the ingredients to form a twister. The clouds in the pictures were circulating rapidly and had it been farther east where it is flatter, I'm sure it would have made a funnel. This is as it approached  This one is as the storm began to pass over  And these two are of the strong circulation   And then the downpour  |
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Post by Jason on Dec 7, 2009 20:52:58 GMT -5
Wow! That's amazing! That definitely looked like a Supercell ready to spawn a tornado.
It's snowing like crazy now that night has fallen. Hope it sticks!
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Post by Man in Black on Dec 9, 2009 8:45:18 GMT -5
That's cool, I hope you get a good snow. I was hoping we'd get some, but it's 39 degrees and raining like a moti foti... again. I bet we got another 3 inches over night.
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Post by Jason on Dec 9, 2009 17:27:54 GMT -5
Nah, the snow didn't stick. There were no clouds in sight the next day, and it was about 60 degrees. |
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Post by Man in Black on Dec 10, 2009 0:53:04 GMT -5
Wow! That's amazing! That definitely looked like a Supercell ready to spawn a tornado. That's the only bad thing about my weather watching here - it is so hilly and tree covered that I can never see the whole sky. This bugger just appeared right on top of me with hardly no warning. I would have loved to see the whole thing from a distance to see if it was one of those anvil shaped supercells. Basically what you see in the pictures is what I can see from here so I just have to speculate. Like you say though this sure fits the bill of a classic supercell to me. |
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Post by Jason on Dec 10, 2009 1:13:14 GMT -5
I'm so interested in tornadoes. I've wanted to see one up close my whole life, but the closest I've ever came was a dirt devil.
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Post by Man in Black on Dec 10, 2009 20:32:44 GMT -5
I want to go on one of those storm chasing trips. I would have done it by myself when I was younger, but now I'd have to have help driving and stuff.
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