Please allow me to interject my feelings about Mother Nature

Watching the west to see if the dry line pops. Right now there’s a strong cap in place. But anything that breaks through will go severe in minutes.

 

I was a bad marching member because I was intentionally hanging off the rim at Reynolds while glaring at a member of athletics administration as he issued a phony apology a day after turning on the sprinklers and scaring the hell out of a lot of good kids in my rank.

 

I was a non-existent marching band member because the day we were supposed to try out in sixth grade I was stuck in the Tri Cities with 18 inches of snow after a family funeral.

 

When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city to see a marching band.

 

There's pine tree that snapped off about fifteen feet above the ground down across the driveway. It missed both cars.

Looks like fun with chainsaws tomorrow morning.

 

Could've marched back. By then, you might have perfected your ability to stay in step. Maybe even memorized your playing parts.

(In all seriousness, sorry for the family loss.)

 

The dry line is just lurking west of DFW now and spitting off a few supercells. Baseball-size hail down in Ellis County.

The main event is about to start. The cold front is moving south and a squall line has unzipped down to the Red River. I hope it doesn't build down to me before the front passes.

 

The serious ugliness should be mainly in central Georgia -- south of Atlanta -- tomorrow but it looks like a nasty rain/wind event for the entire state, with possible straight line winds (may need to borrow Neutral Corner's chainsaw).

 

Dodged a bullet. The squall line petered out about 10 miles north of me and moved on east. Not even a drop of rain.

 

Weather radar shows a huge storm front coming across from Mississippi. Currently almost to Tuscaloosa, it will come over us in an hour or two. The radar isn't pretty.

 

The leading edge has crossed over us, and a massive line of orange/red/pink/purple is incoming. The back edge is still over east Louisiana.

This is well south of us.

 

My niece and her husband are on the Alabama coast for their anniversary. Their car got pummeled by hail, like broken windows and shit.

Y'all stay safe.