Look at that drain. You can see what flummoxed the racoon. Hail began hitting the windshield, and we headed for higher ground, into University Heights, where we saw a young woman running on the sidewalk with her feet plunging through ankle-deep water. What a crazy storm! It would have been better to shelter in place. As we arrived home — 1.3 miles from the school — the sun burst out and everything was fresh and pretty.
Inside, I reassured the dog and got big towels to soak up the rain that was all over the floor, and, outside, Meade took out the rake and cleaned up the leaves that had fallen. The leaves are still green here, and they mostly held tight, preserving our good hopes for bright fall-color season. But what a rain! The biggest rainstorm I've ever seen in Madison.
UPDATE: How much rain was it really? Only 0.91 inches. But it fell within about half an hour.
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But what a rain! The biggest rainstorm I've ever seen in Madison.
Heat holds more water vapor in the air, which must then fall as greater rainstorms. Get ready for more of these.
At least, that's the non-Exxon-Mobil bought-and-paid-for explanation.
The storm passed through my neck of the woods (northwest of you) about 1:00 PM. Very heavy rain and a brief wind storm. We've had a very wet year and this week looks like more of the same.
You were lucky...
A friend in Madison sent me pics of the hail damage to his car about an hour ago.
What is a "TT"?
Audi TT
"What is a "TT"?"
I added my Audi TT tag to the post so you can go back into the archive for whatever I've said about the TT... the car I got after I wrecked "Li'l Greenie," my VW Beetle.
Wait a minute...What dog? Did y'all change your minds about canine ownership?
Mary Dahlman Begley confirms Althouse report but with video of hail. But looks like nothing compared to Omaha. We have tornados.
"Wait a minute...What dog? Did y'all change your minds about canine ownership?"
The usual dog, the neighbor's dog, Zeus.
"Rhythm and Balls":
So you go straight for "glowball warmening" and forget about The Pause and "hiding the decline" while blaming Exxon?
You are so many fun things rolled into one. Keep them coming.
"The Usual Dog" is a great short story title.
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall (1963)
I can see the line of strong cells on the radar images.
Audi TT??
My Boy Scout handbook says you can flip them over, and use them as a floatation device.
Germans....they think of everything.
Where's the raccoon? Did you get a photo?
The worst ever in Madison? When we visited in July, Dr. Nephew and his wife (also Doctor) talked about how she was caught at the hospital (UW) a few days earlier and couldn't figure out how to get home - every route was flooded. While we were there, we left Brannon's (Brennan's ??) when it began to pour and - once again - had a difficult time making it to their home.
Regardless, we loved Madison (so long as we didn't focus on the Bernie yard signs that were still up everywhere).
Next: frogs, snakes and locusts.
Sign of the coming Trumpacolypse.
I had that downpour yesterday in the bike commute, without lightning. Everything is re-oiled and working today.
But I noticed this afternoon enormous static crashes on the radio, which from the lightning page was coming from Madison.
Wisconsin is the right distance for the first ionospheric bounce in the daytime.
Looks like a routine Atlanta thunderstorm. Don't worry. You will get used to it.
Birkel's command of scientific literacy is so weak that he actually takes issue with the greater retention of water by warmer air.
Perhaps in his world freezing leads to vaporization and melting leads to solidification.
He's just that dense, folks.
Famous Brit auto magazine cover from the year Audi introduced it:
"Show us your TTs!"
Even the skies in Madison weep (bawl their eyes out) at Althouse's final term in the classroom.
At least, that's the non-Exxon-Mobil bought-and-paid-for explanation
LOL, You will believe anything you are told, won't you?
Here R&B, why don't you read Naomi Oreskes and come back and tell us why she was wrong?
Or was that paper, before Merchants of Doubt, bought and paid for by Exxon Mobil?
We got 3.9 inches of desperately needed rain in Slower Maryland yesterday. It occurred over a long enough time that a lot of it managed to sink in.
"But what a rain! The biggest rainstorm I've ever seen in Madison."
I don't think so. Human nature to exaggerate the present.
A few years ago in Vermont we got a record snowfall. I stopped in our version of the Chatterbox Cafe and a couple of old timers told me how it was nothing compared to the snowstorms we used to get...
Here, if you know how much rain really fell in an hour or two, you can compare it to the NOAA Rainfall Frequency Atlas to find out how unusual it really was:
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc/PF_documents/TechnicalPaper_No40.pdf
Heat holds more water vapor in the air, which must then fall as greater rainstorms. Get ready for more of these.
A very poorly written sentence, as heat can't hold anything. You could more accurately say that evaporation is enhanced in a warm (wet) region, and condensation suppressed, so that more vapor will be in the air. But it's not held there, it's constantly condensing and evaporating. Consult your saturation vapor pressure curve for maximum observed amounts.
Althouse, were you here in town for the big event in 2006? (Link). That's the heaviest I recall seeing.
So I thought: I can check the blog archives. You were out of town, driving to San Jose.
"...command of scientific literacy..."
Tell the truth, Rhythm and Balls, you were drunk when you wrote that sentence, weren't you?
Tell the truth, Rhythm and Balls
Don't feed the trolls.
Next: frogs, snakes and locusts.
I actually was in a storm where small frogs fell from the sky. Only a half mile of so from the Missouri River at the time there was a reported tornado that passed through and, apparently picked up a mess of frogs (yep that's how we talked in Kansas) and dumped them where I was driving. Little buggers were comical as my wipers flung them off the windshield.
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