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.
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..
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)
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
