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Spent last week in Dallas during record May heat... 94/50 type stuff with a steady 20mph wind... this is already worse

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DFW hit 97 today, broke the record by 3 degrees. Breeze kicking up nicely in Ft Worth at present and it's quite lovely really

Lovely night in the valley. Screen porch ftw

fail. fell apart

Strengthening has been pretty slow in DFW. Maybe by the time it gets up to N Collin county you might have to keep an eye on it however.

Cromwell spared per 9 feed

The Ghost Ship fire in Oakland was another one. 2016

CEF hit 28

Crop damage actually is the worst with smaller hail that shreds foliage. The supersized hail tends to be more sparse. Might squash a few watermelons but likely not cause wholesale destruction. Also only occurs in narrow areas of supercells with maximized updrafts. But yeah the damage to cars and roofs and windows is horrific. Large hail costs dwarf tornado costs in big cities like Dallas.

I am pretty sure since 2013 there have been no more than 3 events with legit 5" hail reports in North Central TX, one of which was this year in Salado. 2016 in Rowlett. And possibly June 2018, though I doubt it. And not sure I ever saw hail that big in OK from 04 to 2011. Truly a rare event...

Yeah, I was wondering if you ventured out. Guess you did, that's hardcore. I heard also that the water at gate 8 was barely 40 and even the warm spots at gate 31 were still upper 40s. Not really an ideal start.

hail in Keene

It's been a very normal April in the valley. Frost most days. The CP and the hilltops have been a lot warmer relative to long term averages.

I'm not here to defend drunk drivers, but I do think the actual roadway behavior is actually more important than the reasoning behind it. If you get caught sober doing 110 and weaving in and out of traffic you'll be in far less trouble than a guy doing 35 to the right with a taillight out who had a few cocktails. The former is far more worthy of punishment... but yes the latter is also worthy of punishment.

I think impatience plus anger is the worst offender of all... folks passing in no passing lanes nearly causing head on collisions... likely dead sober... If there were a good reason to implement caning that would be it IMO. Give me the cautious drunk over the wound up douchebag behind the wheel every single time.

It really wasn't too windy at Killington yesterday, but stayed mostly overcast and chilly til like 130PM, thereafter softening a little bit. So it was either icy groomers or frozen, cruddy moguls with some windblown pow in the troughs. Almost everyone on the hill opted for the former, and we had the latter to basically to ourselves. Took a little getting used to and some human groomin but it got pretty damn fun and we ended up with over 25k vert of battle skiing. Nice leg workout.

crazy 60 here.

869 NOUS44 KFWD 132054 PNSFWD TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-132200- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 354 PM CDT WED APR 13 2022 ...SALADO TORNADO INFORMATION... SURVEY TEAMS HAVE CONFIRMED A HIGH-END EF-3 WITH MAXIMUM WINDS AROUND 165 MPH TRACKED ACROSS SOUTHERN BELL COUNTY AND INTO THE SALADO AREA TUESDAY EVENING (APRIL 12TH). THE TORNADO BEGAN IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, BUT THE TRACK IN BELL COUNTY IS ESTIMATED TO BE NEARLY 13 MILES LONG WITH A DURATION OF ABOUT 30 MINUTES. STORM SURVEY TEAMS ARE CURRENTLY ENROUTE BACK TO THE OFFICE AND MORE INFORMATION WILL BE RELEASED THIS EVENING WHEN THE TEAMS HAVE RETURNED. SEE THE PREVIOUS PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT RELEASED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON FOR INFORMATION ABOUT THE OTHER 2 TORNADOES FROM THE APRIL 12TH EVENT. $$ JLDUNN

by and large a bust for most... some low end severe hail aside. Nice stovepipe further south however.

Looks like Kevin should get some nice cells ripping through DFW in a little while

FWD doing launches at 18z and 20z also

yeah, some early cap cannon fodder... maybe subsequent attempts might do a little better later on

DFW 20z sounding

you may have been correct there... FWD saying the cap has substantially weakened based on aircraft data