Another love note from God...

SKY WATCH FRIDAY time! Welcome all sky fans!!! I truly appreciate your visit and comments. I might not have time to respond to you, but I will try my best to visit!!!

Our hosts: Klaus Sandy Sylvia Wren Louise Fishing Guy

Thanks, also,to Dot and Tom, who were instrumental in the success of this blogging event. You should definitely come fly with us! With severe weather season just around the corner... I am reminiscing about some of my more enjoyable and photographable storm encounters. The pictures below capture an exciting day back in June 2008. It started with wonderful towers going up all over the place. The clouds were barely moving, except climbing up into the sky. We had a brilliant rainbow for a time, but then, there was this... a wonderfully sunset-lit tower rising to my southeast, catching the light brilliantly and radiating with a glow of pink and salmon. I stood in awe of the beauty for some time before I noticed just above my head was an amazing patch of mammatus (my FAVORITE!!), which were also carrying the colors of the glorious sunset. After being drawn to that for some time... and taking a bunch of pictures, I went in to eat.After dinner, I came out to discover that this beautiful tower of splendor was still there, but now it was firing every few seconds with a magnificent lavender electrical storm... all seemingly contained within the confines of this beautiful structure.Speak Lord, your servant is listening.

~Dewdrop

Oh, the weather outside is boring...

This morning's weather news is all about the rain... rain, rain, everywhere... except here. We have had rain in the forecast since this past weekend, and I haven't seen a drop. Meanwhile, everywhere else in the country (and even in other countries), there are serious flooding concerns. There really needs to be a way to channel water from locations of over-abundance to drought-stricken areas... Don't you think???

Yesterday, while I was driving home, I noticed several cumulus towers, which I found very exciting. I haven't seen towers in a while, and I am hopeful that it is a sign of chaseability in my near future. Of course, like I said, nothing materialized, but at least some of the elements were present for me. I did get reports from Rick of thunder well to my west... and from Meso Mike (who appears to be on a blogging strike, but I linked him anyhow, just to be nice...) of cloud-top lightning last night well to my northeast... sigh. Anyways, I stopped to snap a few shots, and that's when I saw these pretty flowers (posted above) on the side of the road. Here are my sky shots...Onto the weather... it appears that Oklahoma has decided to hog all of the upcoming weather. Weather hogs... At this point, the SPC has outlined an area of slight risk for severe weather today in eastern Oklahoma and western Arkansas, the concern of large hail being the greatest threat... and here, we are expecting some sea breeze interaction with an approaching cold front to fire things up (thunderstorms and such). They mentioned:

ISOLATED DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS AND MARGINALLY SEVERE HAIL IN AN ENVIRONMENT WITH MODERATE INSTABILITY AND WEAK VERTICAL SHEAR.

As a result of this, I have recommended that bf dress the jeep. No fun riding around in a swimming pool. We'll see what happens... since last night and the night before and the entire weekend before were precipitation-less, I am not feeling too convected... Tomorrow is a big day in the SPC's forecast. They have outlined Oklahoma (again...) and part of Texas to be in an area of moderate risk for severe weather. There is powerful wording with this one, as they show that the environment will be very unstable with an SBCAPE at or around 2500 J per kg!!! Haven't seen that kind of instability forecast since last year, looks like the season has arrived. The cap's as good as busted. Chasers should be abound...

AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR SUSTAINED SUPERCELLS WITH VERY LARGE (SEVERE) HAIL...HIGH WIND AND TORNADOES

Bf and I plan to visit family and friends up near Atlanta this weekend. Currently, the SPC has highlighted almost the entire state of Georgia to have severe weather on Saturday... a day 4 severe forecast... chasetunity!!! Yeah, yeah, so it's the squalled out leftovers of the exciting stuff they are playing with in Oklahoma and Texas tomorrow... but we could get a little something, something... you know how those embedded supercells can be.

We'll see what happens...
~Dewdrop