Shelf, Severe, and a Rainbow

What a wonderful weather day yesterday was!!! I was finishing up on my Thursday afternoon, when this great cell moves into the area. The cell spanned 4 counties... and in Georgia, the counties are HUGE! Well, anyhow, the radar capture here, translated to this beautiful shelf...
With this beautiful cumulus congestus (that I watched bubble up)...
Produced this severe wind damage...
And ended with this beautiful reminder from God...
All in all, a great day!
~Dewdrop

Chasing and Chaser Convergence... a little different in the south.

It's so nice to have access to my blog back. I've missed it. I had a dud of a chase attempt on a date with my wonderful groom on Friday. We were getting ready to talk out the door for some sushi (which I had been craving like a mad woman) when my weather radio goes off... severe thunderstorm warning on a cell 5 miles south of me?! UGH! So, we quickly loaded up and trying to get under it (no rotation) to possibly nab some hail. There was some associated straight line damage, trees and such, but by the time we got on it... can you say dissipation?! Oh well, maybe next time.
After we finally gave up and gave in to our hunger, the line organized and produced some decent hail and wind damage. We missed all that, but the sushi sure was yum-diddly-ummy. The guy sitting behind us at the restaurant was being contacted about a tree down on his business. Oops.

On Sunday, got a rare treat, Meso Mike back from his tour in Korea was in the area getting ready for his PCS to Germany... eww... not much storm chasetunities in Germany. Oh well, at least we got a chance to visit with him before he takes off. Rick and I went up to see him. Here's what I got with my new Rebel;).

Always an adventure when you get the Dew involved...
~Dewdrop

Double Rainbow

Looky, looky what we saw yesterday. Mini-Dew saw it first and shouted, "LOOK!" I love a rainbow. A double is even better!

I love rainbows!
~Dewdrop

Checking out the Hurricane Hunter

Looks like blogging is off the IT Nazi radar for now, so I am going to update you on a partial dream attainment from this weekend. Well, I say dream attainment, this was just a portion of one of the items on my "Dew's Must Dew Before I Die List" (see right sidebar of my blog). You see, flying into a hurricane on one of the Hurricane Hunters is on my list (not an easy goal as a civilian), but I did get to tour one! On Saturday, the Hurricane Hunter was on tour at the National Weather Service in Peachtree City. My storm chasing pal, Jenn (yes, there is another storm chasing Jenn in Georgia-crazy) pointed the tour out to me, and we quickly set plans in motion to rendezvous there. Woohoo!!! What a thrill it was to finally see the converted C130 face-to-face, to walk through, to sit in the pilot's chair, to chat with the crew! Loved it. Only thing better would be to fly into a hurricane on it, or as I was suggesting to Jenn and Jesse (another storm chasing pal who met me at Peachtree City)... I could fly on the Hurricane Hunter into a hurricane and then sky dive out... fulfilling several things on my list at once... hurricane chase (check), flight into hurricane on the hunter (check), sky diving (check!)... but I realize that will not likely happen (the sky dive, not the hunter flight... still holding out hope on that one.) So anyways, a full day of Hunter touring, NWS touring, CoCoRaHS training and chaser convergence... That makes for a great day! A few of my friends suggested I should "take pics"... do they not know me????

Have a splendid day!
~Dewdrop