Well,as update...here we sit, Sunday evening, booming, lightning, rain, ditches full, backyard full, more "Red" on the radar headed our way...really large system, dumping tons of rain over all of Texas plus many more states to the North and East...power is out during Houston Rockets Playoff game !!!
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Hello all,
The weather folks have been predicting for days that this Memorial Day Weekend (23 to 25-May-2015) will be a "Wash-Out" weather-wise. Well, it's now 6:30 am on the 24th, and the rain is beginning here.
I awoke around 5:00am, still a bit on India time, and heard some low, rumbling thunder, off in the distance. I got up and looked at the Weather Channel (www.weather.com) and was quite surprised by what I saw:
What you are seeing is a 3000km long line of thunderstorms. 3000 km / 1800 miles long !! It ranges from San Luis Potosi, Mexico all the way Madison, Wisconsin !! That long, skinny storm is very unusual for it's length here. Worse, if you put the map "in motion" you can see that the formation is "training".
Sometimes, storm formations may be shaped in a long line, but they move side-ways, like a "wave". It passes over you quickly, and the amount of rain isn't huge. But today's storms are moving length-wise, looking like a "train" on the map. They bring heavy rain to a narrow area for an extended time as they slowly pass, length-wise above you. The rain amounts seen in a single spot go up dramatically.
In Oklahoma. about 800km/500miles north of Houston, they had catastrophic flooding already last night. You can see on the map, as this system creeps North today, they will be in it again.
Here at my house (6:50am now), the rain has begun, heavy and steady. I have the computers unplugged, the TV off, and we will remain hunkered down (...my father just called, giving me a heads-up on a local Tornado Warning for my area...) for the remainder of the day.
Y'all take care,
-Mark
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