GATECH

First kill for ole Thunder. One cicada down, billions to go...

Picked a fine day to go to a winery, 55 rain and hail here near Purcelville! About to get pummeled...but at least wine!

I got it for Christmas and so far it’s been working pretty well. Performance seems about as good as my old Davis Vantage pro 2 so far, that lasted 15 years though. I have a terrible sighting problem, surrounded by large trees and houses, so wind readings aren’t great. Was leary about the haptic rain sensor, but seems pretty good now compared to surrounding stations, they use some sort of AI to smooth out errors. Couple of cool features, the UV sensor and lightening detector are cool, not sure how accurate they are but interesting to have. For the cost, seems like a lot of bang for the buck. Just have to see how long it lasts. Also setup is a breeze!

I don’t like the look of that appendage, nothing special on the velocity to indicate anything else though

My weather flow getting a workout today, real first time to see the lightening detection feature in action. I bit clunky, but better than nothing.

Yeah, not a fan either, I use Radar Scope. The old NWS radar was fine IMO. I was a fan of the National mosaic display, but they even messed that up and its unusable now. They should have a ‘classic’ feature, kinda like when they rolled out new coke...now I have dated myself. found the problem with the LWX radar... NOUS61 KLWX 040416 FTMLWX Message Date: May 04 2021 04:16:10 There is a pedestal problem with the WSR-88D. The radar will be down through the night. Technicians will be notified 7AM Tue morning.

Ugh. Feeling like mid July out there, 70 with a dew of 66. Anyone know what’s wrong with the LWX radar? Hasn’t updated since around midnight.

Turning into a miserable evening, moderate rain, windy, at the low for the day (55.9 and falling fast, was 72 2 hours ago). On the plus side found a bottle of port that I missed from winter, might need to crack that open, maybe start a fire....Blue is temp.

Only LWX can verify a STW without a thunderstorm. Never had anything less than partly cloudy skies, but definitely low end verification severe thunderstorm damage. Large limbs down, power out for about 5 min.

On the doorstep. 60mph Gusts on the way...

Almost like a derecho inbound...this could be interesting, see if it holds over the mountains.

Great...I hate wind.

High wind warnings extended south into NOVA.

Heavy wind with most of the trees nearing full leaf out....this should interesting.

91.2 for the high today, ugh!

Being a card carrying member of GENX, I see the parallels to broodX https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/brood-x-or-gen-x?fbclid=IwAR05M-r-jTz_pcQz6q3gXkQi0WCw5TH9LdkJ232w7TovDZBU47tft8yZrPY

Some indeterminate precipitation type. Temp 43 and windy...ick

Why is it always stormy/windy on trash night eve? Amazon boxes blowing down the road...

Wind never had an easterly component today, SSW was the closest I got, mostly W = hot!

85.6 for the high...nice early summer day

85...can we make a run at 90 anyone..car thermometer said 87..just saying. Grillin and chillin on tap. Might not even need fire bowl tonight

Once we were, 2009-2010, now we Atlanta!

Probably, we are do for a hot May! I probably jinxed it by opening the pool in mid April though...

Was it over when the Germans....oh eff it, it was over in mid February. Guesses for first 90 degree day?

That must have been fun times forecasting ‘93! I actually left campus and went home that weekend, family Iives in Duluth, GA at the time which is about 30mi NE of Atlanta. Got about 7-10, hard to really measure given the winds and drifting lol! If I recall correctly the blizzard warnings were a nowcast thing, was watching the weather channel sat AM and we went from winter storm warning, to heavy snow warning (remember those) then to a Blizzard warning. All in about 30minutes...things escalated quickly. The next day (Sunday) it warmed to near 50 under March sun and the melting commenced. I was able to drive back to campus on packed powder streets and slush. Back in time to watch the ACC championship game. After we won, some folks (mostly frats) decided to start a mini riot and made a bonfire at the corner of techwood drive and Bobby Dodd way. Melted the traffic light, lol. Cops and FD showed up, then someone decide it was a good idea to throw snowballs at the fire truck and firemen, let’s just say the retaliation by the FD was some errant hose work that left many wet and cold. Good times!