Winter is coming

One hell of a cold front is coming in. It's dropping temps 60 degrees in Montana. Not that serious here but my knee barometer will be pinging all day tomorrow. 10 degrees when we wake up on Monday, make sure your batteries are charged and clean.

Discovery

These guys are going to be on discovery's Storm Chaser series.

I've got respect for these guys, but they also scare the hell out of me.

Kind of a "Jackass" Storm Chaser special.

I've touted http://www.tornadovideos.net/ for a couple of years and I'm glad to see them get exposure.

Reed if by any strange twist of fate you read this, you got a fan in Wichita.

Active Year

Something of interest I found on Stan Finger's Blog over on the Wichita Eagle homepage. NOAA put this out showing the number of tornadoes this year vs Average. This had been an active year in Western Kansas. I remember a couple of times having tornadoes stretch from Liberal to Phillipsberg with 12 counties under warning at the same time. The following pic was a report of an outbreak. Wonder what the rest of the "Second Season" will be like?

Water, Water, Everywhere . . .

Wichita's had about 10 inches of rain in the last 48 hours. Don't worry, I'm as dry as a bone.

Love the Line

Heard in Pixar's "Cars"

"I'm happier than a tornader in a trailer park."

Darwinism attempt

Fake or real, or funny as hell???

July Shelf Cloud

Not too much going on in Wichita as the summer weather pattern sets in and the weather becomes tedious and boring.

There isn't much to chase when you have temps over 100 and high humidity except air conditioning.

This week brought a couple interesting days. Tuesday we had 75mph wind and enough hail to make it look like it snowed hit about 4 miles away from the house. I-135 had four rigs blown off the road, and at one point the sheriff almost brought in snow removal to get rid of the hail.

Friday had some torrential downpours and enough high wind to make the rain go sideways for a little bit.

A couple of hours after the storm a nice shelf cloud came over the city. I ran to "the highest point in Sedgwick CO." and shot this.


The upper level of the shelf cloud lowered and looked like a slow avalanche. Unfortunately, the downpour hit and obscured the shelf cloud.

Needless to say, we are landlocked with boring weather.

Something may pick up a little closer to Fall.

But occasionally you wake up, look outside and see a nice cloud like this the next morning after a storm.