Jackstraw

Great weather at the track. Connor Daly at 228 without boost except for that 25mpn win down the front stretch! They're hitting nearly 240 down the front stretch today with no boost!! Friday will be fun. First truly hot day with full boost. Spots of light rain may come through so should break up the usual monotony of single car qualification practice that usually happens on Fast Friday. What speeds could we see Friday with boost?!!?!! Nothing like it. Yesterday had almost 2 hours with more than 20 cars on the track. That's almost a race for 25 bucks! Lots of cars out here today too. The wind is toying with them. 2 more days before the crowds ruin it. Practice is where it's at. If you've never been, practice is a lot more fun than the race anymore IMHO. No crowds. Been parking in the same guys yard thats right on the front stretch fence 15 years. Theres only about 6 or 7 homes left that are that close. 20 bucks. 50 for me for the race if I go. Its a 2 minute walk to the gate. Found out this morning the blackout will be lifted! The last couple of years have been terrible crowd wise during qualifications and the race. A completely different crowd. Rude, unappreciative, completely uninformed about the Indy 500 and the track. Rant off! Practice for me. 29 races under my belt. I've been to everyone of the 4 win club races. Gonna wait for the right year for number 30, which will probably be my last. Maybe next year and hopefully Helio will be back. I'll be his good luck charm for number 5 lol. I just can't this year health wise. It's also just not as fun anymore. I have the experience to know. Was a helluva lot more fun back in the 70's and 80's before stuff got all, well, "cleaned up" lol. Man I miss the turn 3 infield and the North 40!! I'll try and post some pics but my camera sux. Done eating, back to the 1st turn wall watching the snake come at me at 235-240 for the rest of practice!! Homeboy Conner Daly at the top of the speed charts! Go Conner!! Out!!!

Damn it. We need a bottom to figure out whats going to be correct

Beautiful Mothership man!! I'd run a Waffle House out of coffee picking Trey's brain lol. Happy you didn't get totally burned. Great pics!

Around 500 homes reportedly damaged or destroyed as of this morning including a trailer park wiped out. No reports of deaths but upper teens in injuries so far, most from the trailer park. Night time tornadoes have always been my greatest fear, even with the tools we have today. Going through Hugo for 18 hours, mostly at night kinda gave me PTSD about it. Saw some NWS warnings for 150-185 radar estimated winds and 1 warning that said radar estimated 200mph with that thing. From a weather nerd standpoint, those were 2 beautiful classic Dixie Ally long track sups. As always it just sux afterwards. And a note... These things were very well forecasted and very well warned with NWS giving up to 25 min lead times. Probably saved a lot of lives. The only good thing about big sups all by themselves. They're usually pretty predictable where they are going.

We had hail around midnight last night again. Pea to dime size so just loud. I've had more storms with hail this late winter/early spring than any single period I can remember. Think last night was the 5th time its hailed since Feb. Most of it like last night. One storm had some 1/2 to 1 inchers. Maybe this month will get exciting towards the end and the beginning of June.

Feast or famine rain wise. Just another South Carolina winter day here. 40's/50's and rain lol.

Put 1.7 in the bucket with that one so that puts me over 2in locally. At least thats something. That and the incoming cold snap ought to trigger the Morels that haven't flushed yet to do so and the areas that have, to do it again, hopefully. Double flushes of mushrooms DO happen so if your favorite spot popped early because of the wet and the cold/heat/cold/heat cycles over the last month check them again over the next couple of weeks. Cold snaps shock them into fruiting. I've had 2 spots double flush this year. Been the best year in while for me, I'm over 400 bagged. Hell found 50 in my front yard 2 weeks ago and it hasn't flushed since Covid. They are finicky lol

I agree. The CAM's were stacking these semi discreet bows like Civil War regiment lines for the last 48hrs whereas the lower res models were playing the synoptic game. Think the CAM's won (maybe not the HRRR, it was just wonky). Some of them looked like late June/July ridge riding cold pool driven bows. Definitely not enough spacing for any sups to bust and run. There's still 80/70's down south and a definite nocturnal threat ongoing down there. Kinda the price we pay in Spring for these setups. We need wide open warm sectors all morning and day with just enough capping to allow more surface based initiation. Sux to waste a stout EML that worked its way this far East. Those will be harder and harder to come by as we move into mid June.

If you want to know where the worst weather is just open you're favorite flight tracker lol

Not sure why it lapsed. A secondary line through there was pretty well modeled.

Your morning soaker is about my monthly total locally. Still under an inch

Tor warning near Taylorville IL embedded in that very shrimpy looking bow in Central IL. Right on top of my friend over there. Said he hasn't even left the parking lot. He's going to head S/SW and get into the clearing out warm sector. Think that area is where the best potential for some explosive cap busters.

Nah. Old chasing friend of mine was trying to talk me into going with him last night. We've been talking about this setup, the potential mess it could be most of the weekend. That's the area, IMO, I'd be IF I were chasing. I decided not to go. He left last night is in a hotel just S of Springfield. I'll be playing base camp for him lol. Do believe for any lone sups its gonna be highest chance in that area. Could be a lot of embedded sups and MCV spin ups but chasing those just sux. Think kind of like the last system, Tail End Charlies will be best isolated sup options when you get bows and shrimps like this setup could be full of. Like you said that area just got elevated to MOD so yeah, thats a good call IMO if your going. Anything isolated East into IL/IN is probably going to be close to or after dark. Another reason I'm not going. Good chance for a late night MCS/MCV rolling through here. I've got a donkey, 2 goats and 2 dogs. They get quite upset when there's big thunder dragons outside lol. Good luck to anyone who dares and be safe. Idiots IPhones and storms don't mix lol.

I'll take it. With the race at Indy coming a bit early this year a cool to chilly May makes for crazy fast cars!

Pretty good couplet headed towards New Castle Indiana on the nose of a baby bow thats Tor warned right now. Thats a not so small town.