I Mentioned the Weather Here,

earlier today. Because it’s been particularly wild, especially just now at 10:35 PM CDT Sunday, I thought I’d write in. So far, so good where I live, we got winds, but no rain (it did rain before I mentioned the weather could impact my time online and posting,) and certainly no tornadoes. Temps stayed below 75 all day, with lower 60 degree dewpoints. Something could have twisted up, but not a huge something. So, that is good, with the exception that now the atmosphere here will lend itself to the same watching and hoping about the weather tomorrow (Monday.) But it is and has been safe here today and tonight. That’s the primary post.

The reason I thought I’d better write in is because, to the West of us, there is an ongoing tornado emergency. There have been tornadoes, a couple with extensive damages, in the late afternoon and evening, but this tornado now is one of what the weather people have been worrying about all the past week. It even was headed toward Greensburg, but did travel between Greensburg and another small town, so those cities are relatively safe. But the storm has been intensifying, and the tornado has been, also. I figure it’s going to make the AM news, and I didn’t want anyone to worry that we got hit; the area is somewhat North, and pretty far West of where I live, a few jogs South of Wichita. So that’s my weather check-in.

I don’t know what the news will tell about it, but the meteorologist I watch was visibly and audibly saddened by watching the reflexivity radar on the tornado, saying it is very bad. So it must be very bad, because he’s not an alarmist meteorologist. I’m yet again humbly thankful to have such weather avoid my area, and I hope there is not much population on the tornado’s path. We travelled by Greensburg for a karate tournament a couple of years after the Big One there, and I don’t recall a lot of homes on the road between towns, but there were houses around and about. We’ll see tomorrow, of course.

So, there’s that.