June 26, 2020

The storm was about to hit.

Here's how the radar map looked when we got back to the car:

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About 12 minutes before that, this was the view of the western sky:

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This was the north:

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This was the east:

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16 comments:

rehajm said...

In the 70s if the cute girls weren't wearing their Peaches T-shirt they were wearing their like that last picture T-shirt.

Anonymous said...

But according to the radar, the most intense part of the storm was South, which has no picture.

Temujin said...

Yes, a storm is coming.

Ann Althouse said...

"But according to the radar, the most intense part of the storm was South..."

True. There was no view south from my vantage point. We ran south to get to the car and we had some views of the southern sky — where we could see lightning. There were some dark clouds... I should have thought of recording that view when I got back to the parking lot.

Ann Althouse said...

No view of the sky, that is.

Paco Wové said...

"In the 70s if the cute girls weren't wearing their Peaches T-shirt they were wearing their like that last picture T-shirt."

Is this an entry in somebody's "Talk like Joe Biden" contest?

Phil 314 said...

I hope downtown Madison didn’t suffer any damage.

rehajm said...

Is this an entry in somebody's "Talk like Joe Biden" contest?

Cool your heels you tomato sucking hound dog!

rehajm said...

DEVELOPING: More than a dozen businesses inside CHOP zone, on Seattle's Capitol Hill, file 56-page class action lawsuit against the City of Seattle. They're seeking unspecified damages, to be determined at trial.

MadisonMan said...

Thank you for watering, God.

rehajm said...

OCLA requests that the WHO retract its recommendation to decision makers advising the use of face masks in the general population...

rehajm said...

“appear legit.” According to Strzok’s notes, it appears that Vice President Biden personally raised the idea of the Logan Act. "

This not from FOX News but Catherine Herridge at CBS. Either someone's getting 'reassigned' from their job at CBS or the power brokers are starting to roll Joe out for a player to be named later...

MayBee said...

Althouse- have you listened to Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog's podcast, Blocked and Reported. I know you've like him in the past. I've enjoyed the few episodes I've listened to. They are interesting and funny, and they criticize the left from a left of center point of view.

Josephbleau said...

"In the 70s if the cute girls weren't wearing their Peaches T-shirt they were wearing their like that last picture T-shirt." Is this an entry in somebody's "Talk like Joe Biden" contest?“

In the words of Mork from Ork, Nar ar ar, humor.

rhhardin said...

It looks like Madison is about to be hit by a hole in the storm.

An important variable that you have to infer is that areas of generally rising air have rain and areas of generally falling air don't. The rising and falling areas don't show on the radar but can be inferred; they can also be quite large in area.

Dynamically, rain moves into falling areas and disappears; and no-rain moves into rising areas and appears.

It's why highly processed radar maps are useless to bicycle riders. They tend to obscure that effect. The shown one is a raw NEXRAD and not much processed, so okay for bike rider use.

Carter Wood said...

From last night in upper NW DC: In my second DC life here since 2001, I’ve been caught in, oh, half-a-dozen big thunderstorms. The major deal, always, was just getting drenched. The Derecho didn’t bother me much here in the district. And I liked the winter snowstorms.

Tonight, oh boy, as I took cover under the American City Diner’s much-dilapidated canopy, the winds were terrifying.

But then I remembered what it’s like to live on the Plains. Bismarck, July 2, 1993. Hail strikes the Wally Byam Airsteam convention. I managed to pull my car under a self-serve auto wash.

Hail. The difference is hail.