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Lightning Show 7/30/11
Last night we had quite a nice lightning show. With such a big show, I thought for sure we’d get big storms, but it turns out that we didn’t get much of anything. I did get a nice video and some nice pictures.
Storm clouds from last night.
The storms last night were quite interesting. We lost power with the first few wind gusts and didn’t get it back for 6 hours or so.
The good news is the worst of the storms didn’t hit us but the sky painted a pretty cool picture.
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- Incoming Storms
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- A Mess of Clouds
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- Tall, Dark and Scarry
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- Impressive Looking
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- Sunset After the Storm
We now have a water garden.
Lily in her rain boots.
Thanks to all the rain, we now have a water garden. However Lily doesn’t seem to mind.
Turn your iPad or iPhone into a weather radio.
I’ve been looking to get a new weather radio and I found a really good, and cheap, one that happens to be an iOS app.
NOAA Weather Radio is an iPhone and iPad app that lets you listen to over 160 weather radio stations from all around the country and even a few in Canada.
The app also has current weather conditions, radar and forecast.
If you setup your location, it’ll alert you via push notifications when there are severe alerts in your area. Just like a normal weather radio, it’ll make the weather radio warning sound too.
Twin Cities Twitter weather alerts are working again.
Good news for all the people following one of the Twin Cities Twitter weather alerts accounts as they are once again working.
They worked great over the winter, then suddenly stopped this spring. Turns out weather.gov updated the RSS feeds. In doing so, they dropped the old ones without telling us.
Unfortunately the weekend gave us more than enough severe weather to test the Twitter accounts and the alerts appear to be working fine again.
If you want to get updates on severe weather watches and warnings on Twitter, then follow one of my weather accounts or create your own for where you live.
My new weather gage is ready for the end of the world.
For my birthday I got a wireless rain gauge weather station and it appears that it’s already ready for the end of the world.
End of the World Ready
First off, it measures up to 99.98 inches of rain in an hour, day, week or month. Something tells me that if we got 99.98 inches of rain in that short of time we’d all be screwed.
Second, it measures indoor temps from 32° F to 122° F. I’m not sure about you, but if my house is a toasty 122° inside, I’m not going to be here. That’s about as hot as death valley is during a heat wave.
Morning walk on lake Waconia
Such a nice morning with the sun trying to peak out.
Yes. The weather service is screwing with you.
After my post yesterday about not trusting the weather man, a co-worker sent me the following cartoon that proves that you can’t trust anyone in the weather field. 
And that’s why I don’t trust the weather man.
Last week I overheard a co-worker say that we were going to get a big storm in a week with a foot or more of snow. Then my wife heard it too. Seems it was all over the news.
WCCO was reporting 12-15 inches possible, KSTP said 6+ and most other stations were reporting a major snow storm.
Now we are a day away from the storm and what are they predicting? 2-4 inches say most stations with a few thinking as much as 5 or as little as 1.
This is why I don’t trust the weatherman.
I like driving on snow covered roads because you can drive anywhere.
The roads are ice and snow-covered and you know what that means? No lines!
It’s one of the few times you can swerve into the other lane, then back. Onto the shoulder and back. Over and over again, and no one thinks twice.
Since you can’t see the lines, it’s all good!
Most of the time it’s the snow plowers fault too. Since they can’t see the lines, they make the road and we just follow. If they cut the corner, so do we.
