So Ike came close to us today.  We pretty much saw some rain and some good gusts of wind but that was pretty much it.  However down South by the coast, most not so lucky.

They canceled our soccer game today but not until we drove up there, walked to the field and got rained on.  They did cancel some games last night, so the question really is..  Why didn’t you just cancel all the games this weekend instead of some and make people drive up there this morning and waste time and gas.  Oh well..  Just had a nice day of no soccer and I got to work on the office some more and watch tons of hurricane news coverage.  Now just watching the OU Sooners play my home town University of Washington…

Go Sooners..!!

How is your Saturday going?  or how was your Saturday?

Southern Storm Cloud

Southern Storm Cloud

It was weird as we were really not expecting any weather like this close to us.  Although this isn’t really close but close enough.  A little while later even though this was so far away, we had some brief intense wind gusts and steady wind for probably an hour.  It kicked up a lot of dust and dirt and it was flying everywhere.  I think the closest reporting station to our house showed wind about 28.8 mph with a gust to 35…  It was just weird.  Weather man said the outflow from the collapsing cell pushed the intense wind northward toward us.  It was to have a temporarily 15 degree cool down though..!!

Currently there is a Mesoscale Discussion for our area and Oklahoma for possible severe weather starting in the next few hours.  It is stating that a band of thunderstorms is expected to develop.  Large Hail and Damaging wind gusts may occur and a watch may be required.

While reading the Meso Discussion I got a text message about a Severe Thunderstorm Watch #204 for our area from 3:00pm till 10:00pm tonight.  The watch mentions possible hail to 2 inches and thunderstorm gusts to 70mph and of course dangerous lightning.

Link to Mesoscale Discussion #651
Link to Sever Thunderstorm Watch #204

 Keep an eye to the Sky…!!!

http://spc.noaa.gov/products/watch/ww0156.html

Just issued..

EFFECTIVE THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON FROM 555 PM UNTIL MIDNIGHT CDT.

TORNADOES…HAIL TO 2.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER…THUNDERSTORM WIND
GUSTS TO 70 MPH…AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE
AREAS.

Between the tornado watch issued earlier and this one, we are on the fence. Local media states our turn will come later tonight..

Just have to keep watching..