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Todays weather


didn't bother to mention it cause it wasn't enough to amount to anything but I got dime size hail - thing is it was so light and brief there was no significant damage, didn't even tear up the garden.... then I saw on the news - 4 tornadoes. Thankfully the "eastern plains" is a pretty desolate area - bout the only thing to get torn up was corn and wheat, but looks like the town of bennet (long ways from me) took it on the nose pretty good.
 
I felt like I was watching a twister movie today. First I started noticing a lot of storm chasers east of town, then a radar truck setup on the side of the highway, and then two different groups of 4-6 white vans that I'm pretty sure were taking people to see a tornado. I saw a few chasers stopped looking off to the north and the radar on the tornado tracker was showing a tornado in that direction, but I think it was rain wrapped and you couldn't really see it.

I've never seen so many storm chasers in one area before.

Got a bunch of these alerts about baseball size hail but only saw hail about the size of a marble.

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I felt like I was watching a twister movie today. First I started noticing a lot of storm chasers east of town, then a radar truck setup on the side of the highway, and then two different groups of 4-6 white vans that I'm pretty sure were taking people to see a tornado. I saw a few chasers stopped looking off to the north and the radar on the tornado tracker was showing a tornado in that direction, but I think it was rain wrapped and you couldn't really see it.

I've never seen so many storm chasers in one area before.

Got a bunch of these alerts about baseball size hail but only saw hail about the size of a marble.


Not as severe, we had a tornado watch but I was marveling a bit ago the storm was going from Texas to Iowa lol
 
I've known of a few storms to pass by and then develop a tornado just north of me moving northeast into Oklahoma. I've also known of a few to develop south of me and move east. They're usually going east or northeast.

I pay pretty close attention to the weather and will start monitoring the storm tracks if the weather seems severe.

When I got the first alert of baseball size hail I put Marley in the truck and headed east out of town and then parked so.ewhere out of the storms path and was watching it on radar. I wasn't going to sit home and let hail destroy my truck. I've seen it knock out car windows.

If I got to weather.com I can add 'storm tracks' to the layers to see rain, hail, wind, tornadoes, the direction they're moving and severity:

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And then https://www.tornadohq.com/ will show me where the tornadoes are. Right now there's actually one just east of Paris, Texas that's about to cut across Oklahoma and go into Arkansas:

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It takes a loooooooooooooong time to get out when there's construction or an accident. (We found that out the hard way.) Key West was ok but my wife and I liked Big Pine Key much better. Less touristy and a lot more nature. Key deer everywhere and the best pizza I ever had! (No Name Pub)
 
So last week I mentioned 4 tornadoes in rural Colorado, this week we got another round - a little closer (Logan county is the county with Sterling in it), and the night that it happened the weather gurus were talking ping pong sized hail.... I didn't see any. From what I read all the excitement was south and west of me maybe far south. And after waiting a day they gave the size for em EF1 (100 mph) and EF2 (118 mph) as well as something I had never heard of - "EFU". News doesn't say what the name of the family is, but thankfully "rural" means a tornado can go for 10 miles (EF1) or 8 miles (EF2) and only hit 1 residence all outbuildings and trees, snap powerlines for miles and tear up a lot of corn... I shudder to think what it would have been like in a populated area.


In the fall of I think 2008 I had a place in Windsor CO and a smaller one hit the town (EF3 - just looked it up) - not a tree over 7' left in the whole town, cleaned em all out. pulled the roof up 2 inches on my place and then died out before ripping the whole roof off - $100k for a new roof to all, and they didn't even fix the blown drywall seams on the inside. Same tornado travelled all the way to Laramie WY missed my college buddy by 2 blocks. That's the second "close call" I have had (on the farm destroyed outbuildings and dead animals).
 
Nobody in the midwest comment on the weather this last week? I heard they got hammered with hail... then we got it a day later.

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Milliken is about an hour north of Denver (small town that is now mass housing all the way to I25 near Loveland) / a little bit short of Fort Collins...
and one day after the hail, now we are lookin at 100's not even July yet.

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Hail that blows out and completely swiss cheeses windshields is not exactly rare out here.. Shortly after they moved the Denver airport from in town (Stapleton) out to where it is 15 minutes out of town (DIA) the brand new airport parking area was just decimated - millions of dollars of damage to an unholy number of vehicles... I was slated to fly 2 weeks later for work and they insisted I park out there... Ended up buying an airport shuttle out of my own pocket to avoid that.

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thunderstorms today, 2 rounds of them so far with another due in an hour.
typical summer weather.
 
Day started incredibly humid, low 70s. Great temperature, but it’s like walking through pea soup.

As the sun comes up in the day, warms up to the upper 80s, but there’s very little relief from the humidity.

Afternoon and late afternoon, thunder showers as the cooler air comes over the mountains from the west, and the wet air from the Gulf. Some of the storms are very violent.

Evening and tonight, everything stays wet since there’s so much humidity, but it does cool off to the upper 70s when I walk Lincoln for the last time at 10:30 or 11.

I won’t post unless something weird happens for the rest of the month. If you want to know what the weather is like here, just do a screenshot of this and read it every day.

When July comes, just change the 70s to 80s, at the eighties to 90s and hundreds, and repeat until September.
 
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We are still getting a lot of rain here with just enough breaks here and there to clean up whatever mess was made and mow the grass. Maybe a side project or two as well, if one plans on putting stuff away ahead of time and pays attention to the sky. Most stuff comes in from the west. So, just look there and it starts looking like rain. Start putting stuff away.

Forget washing a vehicle. It's just wasted effort at this point.
 
Butler City has been getting pounded a bit lately, parts of the city have flooded like 4 times in the past month. Never mind that the city “fixed” this problem last year…

Our creek hasn’t broken the banks yet, but there’s been a lot of flooding around the area
 
100 yesterday, 88 today, and 82 through Saturday and about 52 in the mornings.
 

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