Jackstraw

Off to the track. We got sprinkles over night. Should be quite warm and windy which could make things interesting. We could get a quick hit tonight with the frontal passage. Par for the course with strong kinematic driven systems around here as they usually split N/S. Hard to get a really nice EML push like that one this far East. The forecast for the next week anyway is looking stellar. Keep those muggles at bay as long as we can

Yeah could be a long night with the dogs lol. We'll see how long that line can sustain itself. Some pretty spooky soundings on the HiRes NAM for the N half of IN and lower MI through midnight. I'm gonna bank on my Climo that they die out was they pass LAF for my area.

Looking like a N/S splitter here which is fine with me. Took a break from the track today, back at it tomorrow thru Sunday

Uber drivers in Indy be prayin' for cool rain Memorial Day weekend. Have the The Fever at home, then the 500 AND Game 3 of the Eastern Conference finals (sorry to any of our OH brethren that had hope ) Sat and Sun respectively. Naptown be wakin up Memorial Day lol

06Z GFS throwing out wacked precip totals for the next 10 days with upwards of 7- 8 inches near the Chicago area, 3-4 around here. It needs to back off the shrooms

I'll be at the 500 that Sunday so fingers crossed. I've been to 25 of them. I've seen every type of weather there, 90's fry you like an egg, 40's and 50's freeze your ass off all weekend. Back in the70's and 80's when it was really fun, like no rules fun, you could camp outside the North 40 until 5am Saturday morning then they'd let us into the North 40 to drink all day and night then go into the infield at 5am Sunday and never remember who won. You didnt have to leave until Monday. Think it was 83 when they let us into the infield for the race at 5am Sunday it proceeded to absolutely pour rain off and on for 2 days. They didnt finish the race until Tuesday. They couldn't kick us out. It was absolutely insane. Saw some Canadians fishing from the top of their motorhome with a dildo on the end of a fishing pole by the ladies restroom. Hey 50k bored drunks shits gonna happen lol. (sorry that 5 day weekend was a memory of a lifetime lol). It even snowed (didn't stick) the night before one year. The shit we used to get away with. I ramble.........

37 here this morning. Last sub 40 day until October? lol

Yeah, I saw an 87 out in weenie land on my P&C. Not ready, never ready until after Memorial day, then bring it because its only gonna last 4 months at most by then

42 this morning here. Been stuck under the core of that cutoff all day and haven't broke out of the 40's with rain up until a couple of hours ago. The wind was blowing pretty good this morning had a wind chill of 35 lol. I woke up with very chilly bones. Had to go pull the propane tank off the grill and hook it up to my Mr. Buddy for a few hours. Need a break from those Winter heating bills Edit: And its raining again and 47. I'm going back to sleep lol.

This Spring has felt like the first "normal" Spring in a long time. Yes it's been a little wetter in some areas but at least its not gone from cold to broiler in a week. It seems like the past few years we almost skipped Spring and went straight into summer. This Spring reminds me of the Springs of my youth in Indiana so far. Now the "Springs" of my youth in Apple Valley CA, thats a different story lol.

Keep those 60 dewpoints south and I'm a happy camper. I know many like it hot but not me. I'll take 70's and 50's for as long as I can get them. Y'all will get your 80-90 degree days soon enough

Training sleepy rumblers this morning as the main action, if any, moves off to the ESE. I hope this boundary sets up south of I70 so I'm on the cool side and can stay out of a couple of days of rain trains. We've had so much rain the grass is trying out for the NBA

70/60 at 1am. I am not ready for the Muggles already.

Had to go to Cardiologist in downtown Indy today so I drove back and kinda followed the track of that quasi long tracker from 4/2. Followed it from Brownsburg all the way to about 20 miles ENE of Muncie because, well WTH, not like I'm in any shape to go mushroom hunting lol. Disclaimer... I probably (likely) missed a lot of stuff but I tried to follow the track and damage path from the NWS best I could. It was pretty amazing how that thing dodged (dropped) the really densely populated areas. I mean, from Brownsburg up through Zionsville and into Carmel/Noblesville areas, thats some pretty crowded grounds, some of the densest in the state, and it looks like it just snipped, or didn't drop, around the edges of them (it was pretty weak but still). When it moved NE of Carmel/Nobletucky all the way through the Muncie area it , it missed, once again just barely, all of the major populated areas as far as I could see. To be honest I saw some of the worst damage between Alexandria and Muncie, mainly N of the Moonsville area and the far NW side of Muncie. That would've been just on south side of the Bookend Vortex that was the main "generator" of the second half of tornado/tornado's but was right in line also with those confirmed reports of straight line winds of 80 to 100mph. NWS had it lift between just NW of Muncie over to OH ( and dropped another EF2 into the infamous Van Wert county tornado magnet lol and and another near Toledo) it may or may not have been on the ground in IN simply because there is nothing there but empty cornfields. So, yeah, it wasn't a "major" event by any means but I again think we dodged a major bullet that evening. I remember tracking that specific cell from MO all the way into OH as it dropped tornado's all along its path. For the areas it went through it's still amazing to me how it avoided, or didn't drop, into any of those huge box cutter subdivisions that surround Indy and Nobletucky that are just waiting to be matchsticked (I hate those things, imagine that lol). Like I posted previously we were an ingredient or 2 away from what could've been something along the lines of the '74 long tracker. Sorry, no pictures, I'm an airhead and wasn't thinking about it lol. Bookend Vortex first week of April? That was kinda nuts though Note: My neighbors husband who accidently turned the shower on while he and his wife were in the bathtub covered with couch cushions and scaring her to death that the roof had blown off when water started dripping on their heads is no longer sleeping in the barn lol.

Well, if it were only occasional "showers" this April instead of near Biblical rain, I am really enjoying it temp wise. It actually feels like Springs of old for once. Maybe its just getting older or maybe I just spent too many years in the broilers in FL/SC, I'm really dreading another hot summer. I spent 25 years where it was 95/75 for 6 months a year every day in the summer. Seriously thinking about moving North in a year or 2. A majority 70's summer sounds absolutely blissful. I can handle more snow. Hell we can't even get a foot in winter here now. It was 2-3 when I first moved back lol. But man that heat, I'm dreading it.