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Jackstraw

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  1. Flash Bang lightning out there. 3-5 strikes a minute. Watched from the porch for 90 min as these mini complex's moved SSE. Best light show of the year. They are just now weakening which could mean some left over outflows for initiation tomorrow morning similar to earlier today. Best light show of the year, until its on top of you lol.
  2. That's gotta be a monthly Anvil Rain record lol
  3. Like clockwork the first week of August the crop dusters invade. They were extra heavy this year. I saw as many as 6 flying around from my back porch one morning. Same time every year, free airshow lol.
  4. I'm ready for Blizzard Warnings already lol
  5. Not too bad here today but yesterday was like wow. When the wind picked up in the afternoon mixing down the smoke it literally smelled like campfires smoldering. Strong too. I went out back once to make sure my scrap wood pile wasn't burning lol
  6. It was chilly here. Was 56 at 7am. Supposed to be a little cooler overnight maybe as low as 52-53. Loving the low dews more than anything. It can be 95 with a dew of 55, wouldn't bother me. Maybe we can keep those 70's dews away for awhile
  7. Picked up another 2.5 as of 8am. Some spots just North picked up over 3. Widespread 1-2 around N Central IN. I was actually chilly this morning for the first time since early May and it was 69 lol.
  8. Lake Louise! Max Webster's song, April in Toledo... "Say's she's takin' a break... from my face" lmao
  9. The next couple of days the ridge riders may stretch their legs a bit to the ESE. These next round of SW's look to be stronger and have a better thermo environment than the last couple of days. I could see some fast moving bookends today and tomorrow maybe into IL/MI before this ridge completely collapses mid-week.
  10. We got a tenth early yesterday morning to keep this streak alive but I saw y'all got dumped on. We are drying out as much as possible with the humidity today so far. Maybe this evil leak in the atmosphere above us has finally been repaired lol. Crazy stretch of rain locally to be sure.
  11. Are you pushing the "anvil rain" record yet? lol
  12. Its getting Stephen Kingish around here. There's another little train that started about 2 hours ago. Its snaking 5 miles north and south and just dumping. I've gotten another .25 inches out of it and its still going. You can see it on radar. There's a boundary there but its been there like forever lol.
  13. Yip, between early this morning (literally one cell out of nowhere just like yesterday morning) and this afternoon we picked up another half inch or so. I was in New Castle and Chesterfield yesterday afternoon, cumulus back building from OH but no rain and when I got home around 8pm there were puddles everywhere. Between the one yesterday morning and early evening nearly a half inch. It's been like this everyday. I've lived around sea breezes and such, all that crap. When I look at Sat pics of central Indiana theres more often than not a thin stripe of clouds building in this area lately. Like I said, almost as if a latent outflow boundary has nestled in here. There were some studies back in the 90's concerning this type of phenomena and hurricane tracks but that was more centered on where the seasonal steering ridges were setting up as they can fluctuate a great deal. They were looking at correlations of early season moisture transport from Gulf and Atlantic, where heavier rains were occurring, that could show subtle areas of where say the Bermuda high was setting up that could give them clues as to where landfalling storms may be more prevalent for the coming Summer/Fall. I remember Bob Sheets discussing "follow the moisture" when referring to this. Had it bookmarked eons ago cant find it. Probably barking up the wrong tree. I mean we have had a meandering boundary through here for about a month with nothing major shoving it about. Was just wondering if such a thing may or not exist even theoretically. Like a little atmospheric wrinkle thats just floating around awaiting a 50 degree dew dry line to sweep in (or is that me lol) Plus I'm bored, freakin' sauna outside now
  14. I know glaciers have nothing to do with my rain lol. thats a whole different subject. I'm not that crazy... yet lol. My question was more towards a subtle weakness that lingers in the atmosphere where rain can develop more often than not. Kind of like an outflow boundary thing that can hang out for a month lol. Not a permanent thing. I know it sounds a little crazy Edit: We've definitely felt the heat Island effects from the expansion of Indy to the N. Will get some training storms up out of Indy
  15. So anyone with more weather knowledge than myself (which is most of you lol) answer a question for me. Is there such a thing as a medium range "weakness" trend that can get established over a somewhat small swath of geographic area. For instance I know that generally I70 and US40 run right along the usual storm tracks for low pressure moving from the SW/W US to the E/NE US. Storm tracks from the NW drape their cold fronts in an orientation that parallels those roads. Those roads also roughly run right along the the southern boundary of glaciers during the last glaciation period. Probably why it was a natural trail established by migratory animals and/or our ancestors (or some of our ancestors) I don't know. I'm getting into uneducated guesses lol. Anyway, my point is, can an area of weakness become temporarily established, however subtle over certain areas along this general storm track and "hang around" for awhile so that when we get into a pattern such as now with lots of pop ups around that area receives enhanced rainfall? I know these things happen on much larger scales i.e. the Bermuda Ridge etc. but can they form for a few months over certain areas for whatever reason? Just asking because I have been trying to get some stuff done outside every day since the 4th and 90% of the time it has rained and stopped me. And it's not widespread. I can watch the radar and a damn shower/storm will popup out of nowhere within 10 miles of here and roll right over us then dissipate, the radar blank for 50 to 100 miles around. If I was in a cult I'd blame the windmills like every other idiot around here Maybe being inside because of the rain has me paying to much attention to it or maybe I'm just nuts lol
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