Jim Marusak

i thought AT&T stadium was a domed stadium.

isn't that right around the time the Dallas/Green Bay game ends and people start heading home? maybe some post-game fan safety concerns?

apparently the parts needed to get SJT up and going won't be there until Tuesday. have to admit, that's good timing.

question for gulf coast residents, especially the ones in Louisiana right now. what does it look like outside when you have rainfall rates of 6-7"/hr? latest rates in a couple of spots are in the 6-6.5"/hr if the radar estimates are close to true from Slidell radar. and I just can't imagine what the drop size would be for that high a rainfall rate. i know there's a theoretical equation that can figure that out, but reality would be the better to know than the equation at this point. and radar-estimated totals of 40+", I just can't imagine that much out of one storm. some of the worst flooding i remember was when a decaying tropical storm dumped like 20-30" in central america back in the 2000's. hopefully the radar estimates are off, on the high side.

would be nice attm if there was a guy or gal able to make an old fashioned manual observation and take a photo from ATY (Watertown Airport).

so who is watching attm out on the ABR radar? because it looks like to me the cluster tried to get together in Day and Marshall Counties, but in a form of semi-rejection they ended up spinning up their own tornadoes instead. looks like another hour or two they'll eventually get together. but in the meantime, the interaction with these storms with the cell in Traverse and Big Stone Counties in MN will be a rather interesting one in the next couple of hours somewhere near Grant and/or Stevens Counties near Benson/Morris/Appleton.

05Z analysis of this monster system. double-barrel low. barrel 1 in northeastern Ontario near Earlton (CYXR) 992 hPa. Barrel #2, between Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, and Dayton with an estimated central pressure near 990 hPa if not 989 hPa. I've seen some strong single lows with pressures like this in the past, and they caused enough damage. But a double-barrel like this at the end of April, we're probably lucky this wasn't worse, as bad as this system was. Btw, I haven't been keeping track of all of the alerts and such in the northern end, except for my folks in northeastern PA. Has there been any severe t-storm warnings in Ontario or western Quebec with this, on top of all the chaos down here?