We had a hellacious thunderstorm last night.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

There have been several SW to NE line squalls in TX that blew threw Dallas and went NE.
None of them got as far south as we are. We are E of Centerville.

Last night one finally blew thru about 8 pm.
We had high winds and rain. And when one of those pink blobs on the radar came thru there was HAIL.

Big hail, between nickel and quarter sized. Biggest hail I have ever seen. When I looked out the door it looked like snow, big balls of snow on the ground.


The last two weeks it was hot and dry. Highs of 93 but most worrying, lows of 71. Not cooling off at night.
Eighty percent of TX has had a burn ban for a couple of months.

But three years ago we had snow the day before Easter, on April 6th. That was the first time they recorded snow in April in TX.

The weather is more volatile now due to more heat in the atmosphere.

We have a weatherman who laughs about global warming when he's talking about record cold. I would think that anybody with a degree in meteorology would be smarter than that, but not in East Texas.

[monmouth]

1. Oh I would definitely question his degree in meteorology. People

who really know this stuff are very serious about it.

[Drale]

5. Not all TV weather people have degrees or good ones at least

I can see a fox affiliate hiring a "weather person" because they don't believe in global warming. Here in Chicago all our meteorologists are good even on Fox (I know crazy right?) but Tom Skilling is by far the best, but I'm sure people will argue with that, but I'm a weather freak and Tom tells you everything you could ever want to know about the forecast.

[monmouth]

6. I agree and as bad as Florida is, we do have good weather people

down here. During hurricane season they are right on it, explaining and teaching. It saves everything.

[rurallib]

2. Sounds like Texas is having wilder swings than anyone else

But everyone seems to be having some wild weather.
Stay safe.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

3. The cars don't have any dings in them, thank Thor.

Isn't Thor about thunderstorms?
The storm windows held up and there are branches down but nothing serious. I live in a house that is probably the oldest house in town, built in the 1880s.

[jwirr]

7. It was supposed to rain here in NE MN - went to Duluth to eat out and

came out of the restaurant to a snow storm today. 68 degrees yesterday - snow storm today. But I guess that is not so odd for MN.

[Sonoman]

4. I was once in an hellacious storm near Centerville.

I still believe a bolt of lightning went right thru the passenger compartment of my car.

Sonoman

[Manifestor_of_Light]

8. It's 4:45 pm now, and another storm is gonna hit us shortly.

The pink blobs are drifting in from the west.

The barometric pressure was 29.5 last night.

The weather guy on FOX 51 chuckles about global warming. Our really smart weatherman is Mark Scirto of KLTV in Tyler.