Hang on to your hats! Weather on the way!

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Buzz Bernard
1 hour, 58 minutes ago



The threat of severe storms with tornadoes, very large hail and strong, damaging winds extends from eastern Texas to Illinois today. The greatest risk of nasty storms, including the possibility of a few unusually strong tornadoes, will focus on northeast Texas, eastern Oklahoma, western Arkansas and southwest Missouri. In addition to the likelihood of powerful storms, heavy rain--locally up to 2 to 4 inches by tomorrow morning--will soak areas from the ArkLaTex to lower Michigan. Farther north, heavy, wet, wind-driven snow, will coat areas from eastern South Dakota to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. By tomorrow morning, some locations in southern Minnesota, northern Wisconsin and Michigan's U. P. will have picked up 6 to 10 inches.



spring in the central US.. oh joy!

this severe storm is just skirting to the south of where I live, by a few miles... whew.............. dodged a bullet this time!

Phae, is Midland in the bullseye????

[Phædrus]

spring in the central US.. oh joy!

this severe storm is just skirting to the south of where I live, by a few miles... whew.............. dodged a bullet this time!

Phae, is Midland in the bullseye????

Midland is right on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert. We don't get much weather at all. A steady 10 - 30 mph (20 - 50 kph? I'm not real good with metric) wind every day with maybe 1 - 5 rainy days a month, depending on the time of year.

I'd say that Midland is barely even on the target at all.

This is for East Texas, I'm in West Texas. Remember, Texas is pretty huge; bigger than France, and more diverse. Mountains in the extreme west, then desert and semi-desert in the west, dry plains in the north, rolling hills in the center and south, pine forest in the east, and a mixture of pine forest, swamp, and hills on the coast.

Oh, and oil. That's about the only constant in Texas. Just about every part of Texas (excluding the Northern panhandle) from the edge of the Guadalupe mountains to the coast, has oil under it. Midland is the center of the western oil industry and Corpus Christi is the center of the coastal oil industry. I'm not sure about the central oil fields, though.