Well I wish we could have snow and/or storms. We need the rain (Photos)

[texas1928]

Sunset in Lubbock
Looking west from Lubbock, the smoke from the New Mexico fire creates an red-orange sunset (photo by Todd Lindley)


Visible satellite image taken around 4:30 pm CST shows several distinct smoke plumes from the larger wildfires along with blowing dust across the South plains and Rolling Plains.


The Infrared image taken around the same time clearly shows several "hot spots", where the intense heat from the wildfires shows up in black on the image


Radar image from 3:42 pm CST. The radar echoes from the dense smoke plumes can be seen spreading downwind


The black areas show the approximate burn areas from the wildfires



It has got to rain soon. Or we will blow away in the next dust storm. It is so dry the city is starting to have a rodent problem because they are coming into the water and looking for food.

[texas1928]

1. I feel for you man.

I really do.

[texas1928]

2. Thanks.

[nutsnberries]

16. hey

were you talking to yourself? :rofl:

you could be organizing a rain dance instead!

It's raining really hard here right now. We don't need it.
I wish I could send it your way.

[texas1928]

17. Well it takes at least two replies on my threads before anyone will post.

SO I have to talk to myself.

[nutsnberries]

18. thunder and lightning now!

:scared:

[texas1928]

20. Well stay safe.

Don't let your pc get zapped.

[nutsnberries]

21. i'm on a laptop & i think it would knock itself out...

it would go on battery and then hibernate... i think. :shrug:

[texas1928]

22. I had a laptop hit by lightening.

it melted the battery.

[nutsnberries]

23. that's not going to happen

... i just covered the battery with ice. should be fine. ;)

[texas1928]

24. YEEEEE AAAAHHHH That will work...

:eyes:

[KitchenWitch]

3. I really wish I could have sent you a few inches of what we got today

We got 10 inches of snow today.

[texas1928]

5. Oh I thought you meant 10" of something...

Oh never mind.

[Catch22Dem]

4. There's a town in TX called "Liberal" ???

I bet the fundie residents hate that. Man, I feel for you though, I'm near Tulsa, and we had a pretty big one just a couple of miles from our house. Stunk up the place real bad, but I think it only got a barn, so that's good.

[texas1928]

6. It has been all over around here.

we had one yesterday that was started by a cotton fire that has been smoldering since Feb 24th.

[Catch22Dem]

8. I see a lot of burn spots that start at the side of the road

You know that's usually coming from someone who tossed a butt out the window still lit.

[yellowdogintexas]

7. hey, I am right there with you. We have been spared the wild

fires lately but we had our own round of them in january.

scary.

and we still need the rain

[texas1928]

11. It is dry here...

I think I have gone through two of the giant bottles of lotion trying to keep from clawing my back off.

[NV Whino]

9. It's raining right now...

again. I'll see if I can send some your way.

[texas1928]

10. Please do.

We need it bad. If not for anything else but to cut the pollen down and the smoke from fires.

[liberaltrucker]

12. Be careful what you wish for

I know y'all need the rain, but the worst tornado I ever experienced
was in Sweetwater. An F4 if I recall right. Hail piled up like snowdrifts.

I pray you get just rain when it comes, and it will.

[texas1928]

13. We will either have a late snowstorm, or a god awful severe T-storm...

But right now I would take a foot of snow just to get some moisture.

[liberaltrucker]

14. My fingers are crossed for y'all

:patriot:

[LostinVA]

15. We do, too

[texas1928]

19. You may get it next few days.

I have my fingers crossed.

[Whoa_Nelly]

25. Saw the Groom and Borger pics today OMG!

Why were people allowed to drive when it was so smoky at Groom area today? Or did it just get out of control so quickly that there was no time to set up a roadblock on I-40?

Grew up in OK and have spent time in TX panhandle. Used to visit a family friend in Borger, and have driven I-40 past Groom many times.

Am actually headed that route late April-early May this spring.

Sure hope I can pull some of the west coast rain with me when I take my trip.

Did that huge cross in Groom get hit by the fire? Am sure it meas something to some some people, but I find it really creepy.

Hope you're safe, texas1928! :pals: