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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1141 Postby weatherdude1108 » Tue May 15, 2018 6:16 pm

Is that cell northwest of Austin gonna make it?
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1142 Postby bubba hotep » Tue May 15, 2018 7:04 pm

Frustrating couple of days watching the CAMs and real time obs while pulling for a storm. At least some are getting decent storms, even if the CAMs show a different solution on every single run lol
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1143 Postby Haris » Tue May 15, 2018 7:41 pm

Roaring thunder and heavy rainfall at my place in W Austin! LOVE IT! The smell sucks
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1144 Postby weatherdude1108 » Tue May 15, 2018 8:10 pm

Haris wrote:Roaring thunder and heavy rainfall at my place in W Austin! LOVE IT! The smell sucks


The smell sucks?lol

Good for you!
Just getting sprinkles/light rain here in south CP with occasional loud claps of thunder. Better than nothing I guess. At least someone else was fortunate! :)
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1145 Postby Brent » Tue May 15, 2018 9:35 pm

bubba hotep wrote:Frustrating couple of days watching the CAMs and real time obs while pulling for a storm. At least some are getting decent storms, even if the CAMs show a different solution on every single run lol


I gave up trying to predict if it'll rain or not lol
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1146 Postby Haris » Tue May 15, 2018 10:21 pm

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along with the rain, some nice lightning
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1147 Postby Haris » Tue May 15, 2018 10:29 pm

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Past 2 week rains show the rain total winner is 30 miles W of Austin with 6.5" this month!
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1148 Postby JDawg512 » Tue May 15, 2018 11:15 pm

Well like weatherdude, I only got light rain with some occasional lightning. Had 2 fairly close strikes which shook the Rain Cave. At least it was something different than what we've been dealing with. Glad you got a nice downpour Haris.
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#1149 Postby JDawg512 » Tue May 15, 2018 11:36 pm

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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1150 Postby downsouthman1 » Wed May 16, 2018 12:49 am


Wow an Independent tower crane inverted strike!

Hope no one was up there.

Nm. Upon further inspection, it seems as if the strike was behind the highrise
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1151 Postby Ntxw » Wed May 16, 2018 7:29 am

DFW through the first half of May is now 4.9F above normal. A top 10 warmest May is possible

Heat will move up a gear on Friday when everyone will be in the 90s, some 100s
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1152 Postby weatherdude1108 » Wed May 16, 2018 1:16 pm

downsouthman1 wrote:

Wow an Independent tower crane inverted strike!

Hope no one was up there.

Nm. Upon further inspection, it seems as if the strike was behind the highrise


That was awesome! Yeah, hopefully no one was hurt.
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1153 Postby Yukon Cornelius » Wed May 16, 2018 3:57 pm

Picked up a little less than 1/4'' again last night. Slight to decent chances for the next few days.
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1154 Postby Cpv17 » Wed May 16, 2018 4:52 pm

Boy, the CPC was way wrong about their May outlook!
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1155 Postby Tejas89 » Wed May 16, 2018 5:46 pm

DFW will tease a record high Friday (96F).

I was wondering the last time we had a record low at the big airport since those are a real rarity nowadays.

The answer is July 20, 2014 (65F). Other months are more surprising to me. January, for instance, hasn't seen a record low since Jan. 20, 1985. heat miser's been in charge for a while lol.
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1156 Postby gpsnowman » Wed May 16, 2018 5:46 pm

May is half over with nothing in sight for the DFW area at least. The summer thread will be open for business soon as well as summer temps by the end of the week. Yuck nasty. The combination of school, early fall, football and cooler weather is next up. This spring is a serious dud unlike any other I have seen. Summer could be worse with the gifts of 83 degree lows and 104 degree highs. Vomit. Somebody start the Autumn thread already!!
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1157 Postby Brent » Wed May 16, 2018 6:24 pm

gpsnowman wrote:May is half over with nothing in sight for the DFW area at least. The summer thread will be open for business soon as well as summer temps by the end of the week. Yuck nasty. The combination of school, early fall, football and cooler weather is next up. This spring is a serious dud unlike any other I have seen. Summer could be worse with the gifts of 83 degree lows and 104 degree highs. Vomit. Somebody start the Autumn thread already!!


I didn't think May could be this boring. Hard to believe it's not even summer yet. Might as well be with the fantasy hurricane the GFS keeps showing.

Speaking of the end of the 18z GFS has a tropical system moving SE to NW across the state though(all the way from Florida lol) :double:
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1158 Postby JDawg512 » Wed May 16, 2018 7:48 pm

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gpsnowman wrote:May is half over with nothing in sight for the DFW area at least. The summer thread will be open for business soon as well as summer temps by the end of the week. Yuck nasty. The combination of school, early fall, football and cooler weather is next up. This spring is a serious dud unlike any other I have seen. Summer could be worse with the gifts of 83 degree lows and 104 degree highs. Vomit. Somebody start the Autumn thread already!!


I didn't think May could be this boring. Hard to believe it's not even summer yet. Might as well be with the fantasy hurricane the GFS keeps showing.


May 2011 was this boring. It's nauseating..
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1159 Postby South Texas Storms » Wed May 16, 2018 9:07 pm

12z Euro and Canadian Ensembles trended wetter across much of the state for next week as they try to bring a weakness into the region. Let's hope the trend continues and other models join the wet train.

It's too early for this nonsense!
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Re: Texas Spring 2018

#1160 Postby bubba hotep » Wed May 16, 2018 9:44 pm

South Texas Storms wrote:12z Euro and Canadian Ensembles trended wetter across much of the state for next week as they try to bring a weakness into the region. Let's hope the trend continues and other models join the wet train.

It's too early for this nonsense!


That was a nice change in the ensembles but I am very skeptical. The Euro Weeklies basically continue the current pattern well into June with areas along and east of I35 looking very dry. Good thing the Weeklies have mostly sucked. The MJO would seem to favor more widespread rains than we have seen, so maybe things will trend that way.
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