Right before I left this morning for work, I walked out back to water the flowers before another 100+ degree day.  (They say this will be day 12 of the last 13 for 100+)  When I got out back, the sky looked so awesome and it looked like parts of it were on fire.  So I went in and grabbed my crappy camera and snapped some shots of it.

After I left for work I was driving north and saw some cool rain clouds so I snapped a few pictures of those clouds too.  Here is one of them:

A lot of times during the summer months and really throughout various other times of the year, we get some instability and we get pop up thunderstorms.  Well yesterday they said there was a 20% chance of thunderstorms which usually mean we get nothing.  So yesterday at lunch I don’t think there was a cloud in the sky.  When I left work, I saw a pretty good sized cell far to the south so I checked the radar on my cell phone and it was pretty far away.  The closer I got to home more and more little cells were popping up and thought to myself that these were pretty close.  Got home checked radar and sure enough, this one (20% chance) was coming right at us.  Sweet..!!!  So I grabbed a few pictures of the clouds in the area and the rain approaching.

Sometimes I think I’m a little obsessive about clouds and storms.  I guess after being in Seattle for 32 years and not really having bad storms and then moving to Texas where there are HUGE storms, I get a little carried away.  Not to mention I was I was a better photographer.

So the other night the dog and I were sitting around the house (wife was in Oklahoma) and I let Mazzie dog out back and looked up and saw some pretty good storm clouds off in the distance.  Like always I ran in and grabbed the camera and snapped a few photo’s of the clouds.

Here are a couple of photos I wanted to share:

I was sitting here tonight and heard what I thought was thunder. Mazzie dog and I looked at each other and so I thought I would check out radar cause I didn’t think we were supposed to have any bad weather or rain for that fact for awhile.

After checking radar, I couldn’t believe there was something just south of us here, so I grab the camera and took probably more pictures than needed, but here are a few shots:

But the weird thing is this started about 845pm and now it’s after 10p and there is still thunder and lightning.. Just crazy… Glad I didn’t water the lawn today

So yesterday morning we had some pretty good storms blow there through.  The unfortunate part was that the storms were moving Southeast and I had drive Northwest.  So the entire drive I was heading into this downpour or rain and high winds.

Although it added about 15 minutes to the commute it wasn’t all that bad.  I like storms, so it didn’t bother me at all.

I actually wish I had my camera or video camera cause it was pretty crazy.  It was pretty light and then a couple minutes later it turned dark as night.  There was so much lightning I thought I was a pop star on the red carpet at one point.  lol

I’m sure most of our storms will not be severe (Tornados and Hail) but you never know.  I think we are supposed to dry out now for a few days..

Another episode of Friday Local Shorts:

DFW Airport:
This poor guy who was driving a service van lost consciousness and ran into a Boeing 717 yesterday.  The driver was taken to a Fort Worth hospital.  At the time the plane was boarding for a flight to Milwaukee.  The flight was canceled.

Dallas:
This 49-year-old woman is in custody accused of beating a 93-year-old neighbor.  What was she thinking.  Come on now, beating a 93-year-old, yeah she must be in the winner of the year club.  They found her laying in a pool of blood, and remains hospitalized in serious condition.  They think she might have been beaten with a hammer and other household utensils.

Forth Worth:
A 39-year-old woman and her 15-year-old son were arrested in connection with a fatal stabbing of a man last weekend.  Hall who was 52 was over visiting and got in an argument and the 15-year-old got involved and now William Hall is dead.  Come on, when there is a problem do you really have to kill everyone.  By now I would think that people know if you kill someone you go to prison for a very long time if not life!

Dallas:
Now check this out.  This guy decided to speed, and of course he lost control of his car, jumped a curb and plowed over 4 people on a sidewalk.  They gave the driver a sobriety test to see if he was drunk and he passed so no drinking and driving there.  2 men are in critical condidtion, 1 woman in serious condition, and the child’s status was unknown.

* most of there stories were obtained from local news stories *

Here are a couple shots I took the other morning as I left the house for work.
I really do like weather and wish to learn more about it.

Just tons of rain and some storms. Reminds of me the rainy days back in Seattle where you would wake up and just be rain and gray all day long. There is a couple of differences here though (North Texas)

• It’s not a cold rain really it’s more of a warm rain, where Seattle it’s cold.
• It doesn’t last all day.

Now the clouds are starting to break, which I hope will create some instability and we can have some good storms later on today. Yesterdays tornado watch was a bust for most of the area, that’s for sure. We didn’t even have storms till after 3am this morning.

Bring on the rain, I know my grass and trees really need a good drink of water

Tornado Watch #311 was just issued for our area
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0311.html

 Tornado Watch #311 states this:
TORNADOES…HAIL TO 3.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER…THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 80 MPH…AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS.

DISCUSSION…VERY UNSTABLE AIR MASS WITH MLCAPES AOA 3000 J/KG AND LITTLE REMAINING INHIBITION ARE IN PLACE AHEAD OF COLD FRONT ACROSS NRN TX/SRN OK.  THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY DURING THE AFTERNOON ALONG/AHEAD OF COLD FRONT AND THE DRY LINE EXTENDING SWD IN NRN TX.  MDT/STG DEEP LAYER SHEAR WILL SUPPORT SUPERCELLS INCLUDING THREAT OF VERY LARGE HAIL AND TORNADOES.

Earlier this morning the chance of severe weather was a slight risk and it was upgraded to a moderate risk this afternoon.

Yesterday some of the area (North Texas) had some pretty good storms. Unfortunately they didn’t come to my area. So here are a couple of pictures I took to the distant storm cell structures.